There's no ski beta on here regarding Lackawanna's East Face, so I thought I'd throw in a mini TR from my ski a while back in 2024

I climbed the standard SW Gully, but the snow was awful. Too icy to skin, but a breakable crust for booting. Oh how I wish I owned ski crampons for this. But aside from a pretty annoying ascent, I knew that the conditions were going to be exactly the same for my descent since I was up there pretty early. Upon getting to the ridge crest, I noticed the snow on the East side of the mountain felt wonderful. At the summit I checked my maps, and made the decision to ski into the unknown, knowing I'd have to walk a ways in my ski boots on the road after.

After watching some snowboarders start directly down the icy West face (respect) at ~10:00 AM, I dropped onto the East Face right off the summit and had wonderful smooth velvety snow for the entire descent. The face is only sustained for about 700', with slope angles around 40 degrees, although plenty of steeper chutes exist just a little further south of where I skied. I thought about entering into one, but was concerned about wet slides, so I stayed out of terrain traps as best I could, especially since I was solo.

A couple inches of snow fell the previous night, and the warm sun wetted that layer out, creating lubrication against the firm spring snowpack under it. On the main section of the face I triggered a very shallow wet slab that ran for a few hundred feet. As it was only a couple inches of snow I skied out of it easily, but watching the volume of snow entrained at the bottom was still humbling. The remainder of the face and basin skied wonderfully, and I was very pleased with my choice. Skiing through an open bowl by youself is really quite serene.

Getting out of the basin was a bit annoying, lots of hiking down steep dirt and little bits of snow, over deadfall, and through some bushes with my ski boots on, but overall was not too bad. The real annoyance was the reality I accepted on the summit, walking 2 miles back to my car in ski boots. It wasn't bad at first, but after a mile 1 it was getting pretty old. Thankfully some folks who had just skied the N face of Star Mountain gave me a ride up from there. We actually spotted each other earlier in the day, they saw me on the top and I watched them drop in. Looked like an awesome line.