Advancing Pennsylvania Cross-Country Skiing
Pennsylvania has a strong ski touring tradition. There are hundreds of places to create your own tracks in parks, forests, game lands, and private properties. While residents can rejoice in the plethora of trails suitable for ski touring, there is more to the sport. Currently, there are only a handful of private ski centers offering grooming. Grooming opens new vistas for skiers and makes it easier for beginners to learn the sport. Grooming helps preserve the snow by packing it and making it more resistant to melting in warm spells. Groomed skiing promotes citizen racing and opportunities for clubs to develop. Skate skiing and classic skiing in tracks on a groomed trail is fast and exhilarating. A well-groomed cross-country ski trail attracts skiers.
Some Cross-Country Ski Goals for Pennsylvania
Expand the number of kilometers (1.6k=1mi.) of groomed trails.
- Grooming education Timm's Hill Trail Learn about grooming
- Groomer Resources Cragin Groomers
- Encourage park and forest agencies to groom for cross-country skiing
Encourage the development of more cross-country ski centers.
- Creating new centers
- Requirements for new centers
- Networking centers
- Trail Development Ideas University of Minnesota Extension
Capitalize on the ski touring tradition in Pennsylvania.
- Trail maintenance
- Promoting Ski Touring Trails
- Dave's Nordic Backcountry Skiing Page (Ski Touring Resource)
Promote Club Development.
- Cross-country Ski Clubs in Pennsylvania
- Development of New clubs
- Add a link to a club Click Here
