Welcome to our club!

North Penn Ski Club is a social sport club centered around outdoor activities not just limited to skiing and snowboarding. We are a friendly group of people who enjoy getting together with other like-mined people for activities such as skiing, snowboarding, hiking, biking, picnics, and kayaking. Our members are couples, singles, and families. Come join us.

Info About our Club-

Monthly Meetings- Normally our monthly meetings are on the second Thursday of each month, September thru March at the Red Cedar Grille Route 309 Colmar PA. Meet for dinner at 7pm; announcements and “business” start approximately at 7:30pm. Red Cedar Grille has great food & beverages, but you can also just show up for the meeting as we have the back room to ourselves. See you soon!
At Club Meetings-Catch up with your skiing buddies, eat great food, purchase raffle tickets / NPSC sportswear, and so much more. Wawa hoagie coupons can be ordered using this Order Form to help raise money for the club.

Other outdoor activities-
Watch for other outdoor activities like bike rides, hiking, kayaking and others to be scheduled with our members.

Benefits of Membership-
Get Perks, discounts, meet people to ski with.

Kids Learn to Ski-
Prices and dates about Learn to Ski Tuesday night at Bear Creek has been updated on the Benefits page

Ski Appreciation Days- EPSC has announced Ski Appreciation Days at Killington and Pico. Info for Stratton to be posted shortly. Shawnee Mountain and Bear Creek are offering Ski Club Members discounts. Many ski areas are switching to online sales in lieu of at the window sales. Procedures for discounted lift ticket days available to club members at Vermont and Pennsylvania Ski Areas is posted on the Benefits page .

See EPSC News Feed

New NPSC Merchandise Snow Piggy Ski Pole flags and T-shirts now available.

Covid Policy for Ski Trips

We are all responsible adults and need to follow current CDC COVID Guidelines concerning our upcoming Ski Trips. People must not participate if they test positive or are sick with COVID within 5 days of departure. It is assumed we are all on the honor system and respect the health of our other club members.

Snow Pig Awardee (Laura Miller with 35 ski days. Jane and Tom Chambers, Joanne Landis were honorable mentions all with over 30 ski days last year. The club member who skis/snowboards the most days in each ski season is awarded the Snow Pig Award.

Summer Picnic 2022- Club members met at the Flourtown Picnic Area of the Fort Washington State Park for the NPSC Summer Picnic Aug 11th and caught up on what other members were doing with their off-ski-season time.See Photo Album Larry and Helen brought their cat and walked him on a leash. To see Ziggy on a leash, check photo in album. Caryl brought her sweet miniature Schnauzer dog.

Membership Drives- Thanks to all the member volunteers who helped man Ski Club Booth 😁 at Buckman's Tent Sale, North Wales Community Day, and Lansdale Community Day. Welcome to new members that have joined in the last 3 months, we all look forward to skiing with you!!

Upcoming Trips-

Meet at the Mountain Ski Trips

The ski season in PA is underway (off and on). Many weeks, Member groups meet up to ski Jack Frost or Blue Mountain. We had around 12 of these meet at the mountain trips during the 2021/2022 Skiing season. Join us to meet new ski buddies. Skiing with friends is always fun. Many from the club plan to ski together Tuesday Jan 24 at Blue Mountain.

Feb 2023 Meet at the Mountain Ski Trip to Elk Mountain
Join us for a one day drive-up ski trip to Elk Mountain Feb 21, 2023. This is a meet at the mountain trip. Meet around 9AM at the lodge. (Moved back from Valentines Day by popular consensus).

Vermont Trips-
Often members get together for for trips to Vermont, NH, and/or Maine.
Many of our members attended the 70+ Skiers Club Okemo trip the first week of Jan 2022. Quite a few were under 70 years of age.

Aspen Snowmass 2023
Jan 28-Feb 4, 2023. Trip capacity full but there is a Wait-list. See information about the trip on trip info page. Trip flyer, sign-up sheet, and payment schedule are downloadable by members. Final payment/remaining balance due by December 1, 2022
Get psyched for Aspen Snowmass by watching this YouTube video about the ski area Snowmass YouTube Video

North Penn Ski Teams-
Join the NPSC Ski Race team on Tuesday of trip week at Aspen Snowmass. This is a great fun-race, you don't need to be a crazy-fast racer to have fun on the race course. Dave Schoneker is coordinating the race team(s). See this page NPSC Ski Race Teams 2023 for all the info on how to form teams, the rules, location of the race at the mountain. And more importantly, where and when to take practice runs on Monday. Sign up with your NASTAR Id or create one. See the details on the race team web page.

EPSC 2023 Ski Tour-

Ski Racers take note!!! EPSC has announced the dates of the 2023 Ski Tour with 8 Events throughout February at Montage, Bear Creek,Shawnee and possibly Elk Mountain in March (if season lasts that long). See the details on our EPSC Ski Racing 2023 web page which has links to webpages for each event and more.

Saddleback Maine Ski Trip 2023
Feb 26- Mar 3, 2023 Nights lodging at Rangeley Inn about a 15 min drive from the mountain. Many lift ticket options. Additional ski days at Killington for those that want to ski a day or two either on the way to Maine, or on the way back. See the Saddleback trip page for details.

Heavenly- Lake Tahoe 2024- We will be attending the EPSC Winter Carnival in 2024. See the trip info page for information about this exciting trip in the following ski season.

Val Gardenia (Dolomites, Italy) EPSC International Trip 2024- Alphorn Tours will be the Tour Operator. Date will be the last Week of February or first week of March. There will be an optional 3-day pre-trip to Venice.

Current state of Pennsylvania Snow 🤪

Past Trips/Activities- Blue Mountain Meet-up-Jan 24, 2023 A group of North Penn members met up at Blue Mountain to ski together. We skied the morning and several runs after lunch. Nice time had by all.

Greek Peak Trip- Jan 17, 2023 we had a 2-night overnight to Greek Peak in Cortland NY. We drove up Tuesday and stayed over at the beautiful Hope Lake Lodge. It was light freezing rain with a few flakes of snow at the top of the mountain on Wednesday. We all had a great time skiing what was open on the mountain Wednesday. However, steady rain forced the group to head home early on Thursday. We had a great time sharing each others company at Apres-Ski get togethers, lunches and dinners. We all look forward to a return trip to Greek Peak possibly later in February. See trip photo album here.

Blue Mountain- Meet at Mountain Trips- During Jan and February many club members go to Blue Mountain, Bear Creek, Jack Frost for Meet-at-the Mountain Ski Trips. Organized via an email list, we ski many days as a group at these local ski areas. So far, during 2022/23 Season one group skied Blue Mountain Dec 21st. Some members got in some early spring skiing Monday Jan 2, 2023 at Blue Mountain. See photo of a trio below.

Last Year 2022 Season Trip Reports 2022

February Elk/Montage Mountain Ski Trips-
We had a great day skiing at Elk Wed Feb 16, 2022 even though their quad lift was down. All eight of us had a great day with plenty of sunshine, great snow, and fun terrain. We were joined by 2 UBSC members and one NPSC member joined the Upper Bucks Ski Club group at Montage the day before.