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Sly Fox Ski and Snowboard Club Participate in CMSC Trips and the Trips of Other Member Clubs SKI. RELAX. REPEAT. At Aspen Square, we know the key essentials for a great vacation – ideal location, comfortable well-appointed accommodations, friendly assistance when you need it. So relax – we’ve got you covered! INDIVIDUAL. WELCOMING. UNFORGETTABLE. 101 unique condominiums. Full hotel-style services and amenities. At the base of Aspen Mountain. 1.800.862.7736 | aspensquarehotel.com EDITORIAL & ADVERTISING Publisher - CMSC Mike Thomas [email protected] Editor - Rick Heinz About cMSc [email protected] The Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council (CMSC) is an association of 67 member clubs which offer downhill and nordic skiing, boarding and year- round activities. We are adventure clubs, Design & Production single clubs, family clubs, and clubs that welcome all comers. SKI. Rick Drew & Karola Wessler [email protected] CMSC, founded in 1957, is managed entirely by volunteers who are members of our clubs. RELAX. Our publication, the Ski & Ride Club Guide, and our website provide information on Club and Advertising Sales - Mike Thomas Council activities. Our aim is to promote skiing and boarding. [email protected] REPEAT. CMSC member clubs have trips planned to almost every major destination in North-America Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council and Europe at various times throughout the year. Please visit their website to learn more PO Box 189 about them and their activities. At Aspen Square, we know the key Wood Dale, IL 60191-0189 SkiCMSC.com essentials for a great vacation – ideal location, comfortable well-appointed content accommodations, friendly assistance when you need it. ABOUT THIS MAGAZINE So relax – we’ve got you covered! Ski & Ride Club Guide is published annually, and is the official publication of the Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council (CMSC). Copyright 2018. Copper Mountain All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without approval EATURES of CMSC. F Trips in Review . 14 Ski & Ride Club Guide serves as a means Olympians’ Journey . 5 of promoting its member clubs, making it invaluable to all midwest skiers and riders. Copies Family That Flies . 18 are available free of charge at CMSC general You Can Help These Groups Help Others! . 19 meetings, ski related events, Chicagoland area ski shops and on-line. To display Ski & Ride Club Guide in your establishment or request more DEPARTMENTS copies please contact CMSC. INDIVIDUAL. WELCOMING. UNFORGETTABLE. Message from the President . 4 101 unique condominiums. Full hotel-style services Club Map . 6 and amenities. At the base of Aspen Mountain. ON THE cOVER Norge Ski Club grounds showing their 5 ski Member Clubs . 7 jumps. The largest jump was bought for $1.00 Racing Schedule . 12 from Ely, a town in Minnesota’s Iron Range. Club Trips Listing . 16 Several athletes trained on these jumps as they made their way to the Olympics. Picture Club Profiles . 20 1.800.862.7736 | aspensquarehotel.com courtesey of Rick Drew. Associate Members . 24 Board of Directors . 26 skiCMSC.com - SKI & RIDE CLUB GUIDE 3 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Let me tell you a story about a dream and a place where a dream came true. This is about a ski club and a will to make something improbable happen. In Fox River Grove, Illinois about 40 miles northwest of Chicago is located the oldest continuously open ski club in the United States. The club was started in 1905 by a group of Norwegian men. Most lived in Chicago and came out to Fox River Grove to ski jump. In the early years of the club, huge crowds traveled from Chicago and its suburbs to see their tournaments. Norge is one of the 67 ski clubs in the Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council and the only one that has a venue where ski jumpers of all ages come to improve their skills. The “American Mecca” of ski jumping resides in suburban Illinois and has produced three of the four men’s Olympic ski jump team members for the 2018 Olympic Games. Norge Ski Club has been the host of many Olympic hopefuls. Through the years, the Chicago Metropolitan Ski Council has supported Norge with its endeavors. Michael Glasder, one of its skiers whom CMSC has supported for years, had a dream of going to the Olympics. In its history, the Norge Ski Club has never had an athlete qualify for an Olympic team. In 2010, Mike Glasder almost qualified to compete in the Olympics during the trials in Vancouver. The American Olympic team was only allowed to take three jumpers. Mike would have been the fourth. In 2014, during the trials for Sochi, Mike finished fifth but they were only able to take four jumpers. In 2017, during the trials for the Olympics in Park City, Mike took first place and was finally eligible to compete in South Korea with the 2018 U.S. Olympic Team. To the surprise of many people, two more jumpers from Norge made the cut in future jumps. Casey Larson whose father is a CMSC board member, made the team along with Kevin Bickner, the third jumper to make the team. At this point, Norge Ski Club had three of the four jumpers make the American team representing the United States. This was the first time three members of the Olympic ski jumping team were from the same club. The club had been run solely by volunteers and parents who coached for several years until they Commitment to value. THANK YOU TO hired the clubs’ first paid coach, American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame member Scott Smith, who had WHITEFISH MOUNTAIN RESORT learned at Norge himself as a child. Smith, who has been an Olympic ski jumping coach for many OUR ADVERTISERS years, was very proud to see three of the Norge ski jumpers compete in South Korea. Arapahoe Basin Ski Area................................ 8 Ski jumping takes place at Norge Ski Hill in Fox River Grove year round. During the spring and Aspen/Snowmass........................................ 23 summer months a special turf that simulates snow is used. Ski jumping is an Olympic sport that is not for the faint of heart. Athletes must race down a very steep incline before launching themselves Aspen Square Condominium Hotel ................ 2 off of a massive ski hill. Averill Hospitality .........................................18 John M. Glover .............................................13 Looking ahead to the 2022 Olympics. Keep on Flying! Ski Big 3 ......................................... Back Cover Commitment to character. In the ‘30s local skiers discovered good skiing Lamers Bus Lines ......................................... 17 Raymond Piwowarczyk, on the “big mountain” north of town. Since then CMSC President we’ve been committed to a life of good times, Nub’s Nob .................................................... 17 great people and deep snow. In Whitefish you’ll find a community true to itself and a deep-rooted Steamboat Resort ....................................... 27 lifestyle where character is encouraged. Travel Protectors.......................................... 11 Whitefish Mountain Resort ........................... 5 Norge Ski Club (Guy Larson) presenting an For Group Rates and Proposals Wilmot Mountain... ..................................... 13 appreciation award to CMSC President, Ray Contact: [email protected] Piwowarczyk for the many years of support. Zermatt, Utah ................................................ 9 SKIWHITEFISH.COM | 877-SKI-FISH Partially Located on National Forest Lands WHITEFISH, MONTANA Photos © GlacierWorld.com 4 SKI & RIDE CLUB GUIDE - skiCMSC.com THE OLympIANS’ JOURNEY playground, they already had dreams of jumping in the Olympics. When asked when and why they decided to shoot for the Olympics, they said: Glasder: “I can’t put a date on it but making the Olympics has always been a goal of mine since I was very young. I decided to go for the Olympics because it is the epitome of competitive sports and the highest level that you can reach. The opportunity to represent my local club, community, and nation is the highest honor.” Larson: “It’s always a huge dream as a kid, it’s the biggest stage our sport has to offer and it was the goal the first time I went off a ski jump. It became a reality In Fox River Grove, perched atop a large hill that overlooks a natural glacial when I started jumping in international competitions and placing pretty well in depression sits a ski jump that dwarfs anything else in sight. Home to the Norge Ski them during the 2016-2017 winter. ” Club, this massive structure has seen thousands of jumpers since the original was built in 1905. With a long history of sending jumpers to national and international Bickner: “The Olympics had always been a dream of mine, since the first day I competitions, the Olympics eluded Norge jumpers. That is until 2018 and the started ski jumping. It was an event I always thought was really cool and the PyeongChang Olympics, when three of the four jumpers on the American team only event I knew that skiers competed in, so I never even were from Norge: 28 year old Michael Glasder, 19 year old Casey Larson, and 21 considered being a world cup jumper until I got older and year old Kevin Bickner. The end result of amazing athletes, learned about the different levels of competition.” dedicated parents, and a ski club that dared to dream. But the journey was a long and difficult one. For the Glasder, Bickner and Larson families, Norge became their kids second home. They started on Norge’s 5 meter hill All three started jumping before they were 10 years old! and eventually graduated to the huge 70 meter jump. All Glasder was 4, Larson was 6, and Bickner the ripe old three later started training at other international locations, age of 9. When most children’s goal was conquering the and moved on to compete across the country and around biggest slide or reaching the highest point at the local (Cont.
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