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Sharp Mountain was a former ski area in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, whose lodge was the Pottsville Club. The area was operating by the mid-1960s and appeared in a 1969 ski atlas. For the Flying Dutchmen Ski Club of Reading, it served as a home mountain for years, while local families and visiting clubs made it part of the region’s ski network.
The mountain’s modest setting left strong personal memories. Skiers recall learning there on wooden skis, meeting friends and future ski-school colleagues, and gathering around a lodge whose former trails can still just barely be traced. Accounts suggest the area included a double chair and T-bar, though details vary. In later years, mining substantially altered the site; readers report that roads and strip-mining operations crossed former lift lines and trails, with some lift footers remaining in the woods. The Pottsville Club itself has also faced an uncertain later future.
Generated from DCSki's historical profile and reader-contributed memories.
Stan Miller writes about a former Pennsylvania ski area:
“Another Lost Ski Area is the former Sharp Mountain, which was in Pottsville, PA. Pottsville just celebrated its bicentennial. Some events were held at the Pottsville Club, which was the Ski Lodge for Sharp Mountain. You can just barely tell how the trails went by the building. My local Ski Club, the Flying Dutchmen Ski Club (based out of Reading, PA), used it as its home mountain for quite awhile.”
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Woody Bousquet found this Sharp Mountain brochure for sale on eBay. Image provided by eBay / Woody Bousquet.
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