Sno-Hill Ski Area

Ski Sno-Hill near Lake Como, Pennsylvania, was the first name of the small ski area in northern Wayne County, a few miles from the New York line, that later became Mount Tone. It ran on the grounds of Camp Lohikan, a summer camp the Buynak family founded in 1957, was billed as a Lohikan Recreational Enterprise, and called itself the Top of the Poconos in its brochures.

Sno-Hill sold what it called live-in skiing. A 1970-71 rate card offered three-day ski holidays from $40 with meals, rentals, lift tickets and night skiing, and the lodging held about 250 people in slope-side bunk rooms, chalets and two inns. The lodging all carried Sno names: the Sno-Drift Lodge, the Sno-Flake Inn, and chalets called Sno-Ball, Sno-Cap, Sno-Cone and Sno-Drop. Skiers rode a T-bar and a rope tow to trails named Rifle Drive, Sunset Ridge, Hemlock Ledge, Lohikan Shift and Winding Way, and could also skate on a 53-acre lake, ride the toboggan run or rent snowmobiles. The mascot on its patch and brochures was a snowman in a top hat and red scarf, out on skis.

By 1985 the area was called Mount Tone. The old T-bar hill had become South Mountain, still with its original trail names, and across the road a triple chairlift and a double rope tow served North Mountain, where trails included Lakeview, Kinneyville and a narrow expert run called Shotgun. A short walk and a bridge linked the two sides. The area kept snowmaking and night skiing, added snowboarding and snow tubing, and was known for cheap tickets: an $18 lift ticket in its later brochures, with ten trails on roughly 450 feet of vertical.

Mount Tone closed its ski operation in 2004. The reasons were never clearly documented. The lifts were left standing for a time, and the grounds carried on as Camp Lohikan in the summer.