Lick Skillet is a treacherous road in the winter. From the bottom of the Skillet it can appear passable and the view at Pine/Lick Skillet and then Main St./Lick Skillet again seemingly passable. Once you start down or up you have no options and you as well as others are impacted and quite possibly seriously endangered. Three cars stuck over on Christmas day blocking travel with one of the abandoned cars actually sliding without a driver from well above the hairpin coming to rest below on the flatter portion.  And this with only dustings over a couple of days. The freeze and thaw and freeze is unpredictable and best just to stay off the road in the winter. 

Kris Gibson