Chairlift Chatter November 2011

April 2016 www.skissc.com P.O. Box 60713 Harrisburg, PA 17106-0713 PRESIDENT’S CORNER PICTURE PARTY & PHOTO CONTEST It is hard to believe this year’s ski season is almost over and PICTURE PARTY: Tuesday, April 5, 6 pm what a crazy one it has been. Departure delays due to a record If you went on a trip with SSC between April 2015 and -breaking winter storm (Jonas), packing your luggage with the March 2016, you are invited to attend our annual Picture flashlight on your phone or a candle due to a power outage at Party starting at 6 pm on April 5 at Boomerang Bar & Grill, 110 the resort along with delays getting home, an empty pool due Limekiln Rd., New Cumberland. Snacks will be provided. You to construction delays, and a ski sampler can still attend the picture party for a fee of $5 per person if you that allowed folks to ski in all types of were not a SSC trip participant during the past year. Bring your conditions. With challenges like these, I trip and event photo(s) to share with your friends in scrapbook cannot say enough about our amazing form or on your laptop (be sure to bring an extension cord just trip leaders who handled every situation in case if bringing your laptop). and our trip participants who enjoyed the skiing and time together 2015-16 PHOTO CONTEST: regardless. Isn’t that what our club is If you would like to enter any of your 2015/16 trip or event all about? Being together and enjoying photos in SSC's 2015-16 photo contest, please bring a 4x6” the gifts of nature in our “All Seasons black & white or color photo with your name printed in Club”. permanent marker on the back. Photo entries will be returned Our 2017 trip destinations have been to you after our members cast their vote for their favorite photo selected and are currently out to bid thanks to at our Awards Banquet on April 23. The winner will receive a our gurus on the trip committee. Our social committee is $50 cash prize and the honor of having their winning photo meeting to prepare SSC’s 2016-17 social events calendar on displayed in our monthly email newsletters, including credits. April 20. If you have any suggestions, please contact Social VP Ideally, photos will support cropping to 3.4:1 (approx. 3.4 times Terri Falk or any member of the board with your ideas. wider than tall). Bring your entries to the Picture Party and Please check out the article in this newsletter referencing hand them in at the registration desk or mail them to Lovena how to renew/update your 2016-17 membership. You don’t Nickle, 195 Mapleton Dr., Harrisburg, PA 17112. want to miss out on what is going on socially and be ready to sign up for trips at the picnic. SHARE YOUR FUN WITH Together we can make this a great year! PHOTOS!! SSC’s Photo Historian, Janet Levine, is collecting pictures for Club Scrapbooks SAVE THE DATE!! SAT., JUNE 18 that show our members enjoying club activities. Please forward printed 4x6” photos to Janet SSC SUMMER PICNIC Levine, 4713 Buck Run Lane, Harrisburg, PA 17110. Don’t A chair and co-chair are needed to run this forget to put a post-it note on the back with the place, date event. If you would like to volunteer for and names. Please limit your enthusiasm to 3 pictures per either position, WE NEED YOU!! Please venue! All photos will be added to Scrapbook History 2002- contact Social VP Terri Falk at 717-228-9939 2016. or [email protected] if you can help.

Mar 30, 5 pm Board meeting. Contact President Sherry Predix for meeting location Apr 2, 7 pm Wine appreciation night @ Lilly & Ernie Peek’s home (RSVP for address) Apr 5, 6 pm Annual Picture Party and photo contest submissions start @ Boomerang Bar & Grill, 110 Limekiln Rd., New Cumberland Apr 21, 5 pm Happy hour & movie night @ Macaroni Grill (2531 Brindle Dr., Harrisburg) & Regal Theatre (1500 Caughey Dr.) Apr 23, 5 pm Annual Awards Banquet @ Blue Ridge Golf/Country Club, 3940 Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg Apr 27, 6:30pm Board meeting @ Gordon’s Family Restaurant, 1009 North Mountain Rd., Linglestown May 6, 5 pm 1st Deck Party of the Season @ Dockside Willies, 449 South Front St., Wormleysburg May 7, 5 pm Wine Appreciation Night @ Jim Volstorf’s home (RSVP for address) May 20, 5 pm Deck Party @ Brewhouse Grille, 2050 State Rd., Camp Hill

UPCOMING EVENTS UPCOMING May 25, 6:30 pm Board meeting @ Giant Food Store, 2334 Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg

WINE APPRECIATION WINE APPRECIATION EVENING AT EVENING AT LILLY & JIM VOLSTORF’S ERNIE’S Saturday, May 7, 5 pm Saturday, April 2, 7 pm Jim Volstorf will host this event starting at 5 pm. Please bring Lilly & Ernie Peek will host this event a bottle of wine in the $15 to $20 price range along with a dish starting at 7 pm. Please bring a bottle of of good food to share. Non-alcoholic beverages will be your favorite wine along with a dish of good food to share. Non- provided. Jim promises to get the party going by flaming alcoholic beverages will be provided. They have limited space something. See the flames rise over the pan by over a foot. available so the party will be limited to the first 30 who respond. Side bets can be made on his starting a fire this time. Jim has Please RSVP by March 30 preferably via e-mail limited space available so the party will be limited to the first 30 ([email protected]) or text (Lilly’s cell is 717-385-4667) to who respond. Please RSVP by May 4 at 239-784-0054 or obtain their address. [email protected], say if you will bring an appetizer or dessert, and obtain the address. HAPPY HOUR & MOVIE NIGHT THREE GENERATIONS OF SKIERS Thursday, April 21, 5 pm (Date has changed!) It’s ‘Hump Day’ so RELAX!... Join us for an evening for happy hour and a movie. Bring a friend!... You don't have to be a club member to come to this event. Eat/drink!... We'll meet after 5 pm at the Macaroni Grill at 2531 Brindle Dr., Harrisburg, for some drinks and a snack before the movie. When it’s nearly time for the movie to start, we'll drive a short distance to the Regal Harrisburg Stadium 14 at 1500 Caughey Drive. Stay tuned for an email blast 3-4 days before movie night that will announce the time and name of the movie we’re going to see. Please note: Since we will be starting our bi-weekly deck parties in May, this will be our last movie night until October.

Avid skier and longtime member of the Susquehanna Ski and SPRING BANQUET / AWARDS NIGHT Snowboard Club, Jay Doherty is pictured with his son, Rich Saturday, April 23, 5 pm Doherty and granddaughters Maggie and Sarah, new Mark your calendars NOW, and plan to join your SSC members to the club, on the recent bus trip to Elk Mountain. friends as we return to the beautiful Blue Ridge Golf/ Jay has been the private ski instructor for his Country Club (the venue for SSC’s 50th anniversary children and grandchildren and now enjoys the slopes with celebration in 2014) for our annual Spring them. The girls' goal is to ski faster than their grandfather. Awards Dinner/Dance. We will kick off the evening at 5 pm with a cash bar/reception, followed at 6 pm SEEKING SSC EVENT SPONSORS! by a buffet-style dinner Do you have a business you would like to promote to including salad, two hot SSC's membership? Sponsor a SSC event and get your entrees, vegetable and starch du business noticed! Current sponsorship opportunities jour, fresh baked rolls, dessert, include our 2016 Spring Banquet and Summer Picnic. For coffee, tea or iced tea. After dinner, more information, please contact Brenda Bent at share in recognizing this year's [email protected] or 717-921-2575. Board and Staff members, and in welcoming our newly elected SSC Board members. 2017 ski trip leaders will also be announced. RIDES & HIKES SSC's awards ceremony will also follow dinner, if anyone is Weekends are a great time to get out and honored with a Silver Ski, Gold Ski, or Lifetime Achievement enjoy the great outdoors with some Award this year. Then, get those feet tapping and be ready to awesome folks. Contact Mike at hit the dance floor as we rock to the beat of the Pepper Street [email protected] for a schedule Band!! of the weekly bike rides or hikes and to be A GREAT night of fun, food, frolic and friends is in store for added to Mike's weekly email updates. you for only $48 per person. You can log on to the SSC website (skissc.com) to pay for tickets online, or mail your check, made payable to SSC, to Terri Falk, 226 Burd Coleman Road, Lebanon, PA 17042. Please send your checks soon so that we're able to provide numbers to the caterer by NEW MEMBERS April 13. Phone Terri at 717-228-9939, or co-chair, Linda Please Join Us in Welcoming Them! Randby at 717-526-4563 with questions about this event. You DON’T want to miss it!! The Blue Ridge Golf/Country Club is Donald Guss and Mike Skelly located at 3940 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg.

2016 TRIP STATUS & TRIP RECAPS Trip application forms and trip terms may be found on our website (skissc.com/trips). See our website for trip details. Your SSC membership must be current to sign up for a SSC trip and at the time that the trip runs.

Dates Destination Trip Size / Status Trip Leader Contact Info

Aug 20-28 Rhine River Cruise 30 / Call for availability Lovena Nickle 717-919-4262 or [email protected] LIGHTS OUT IN TELLURIDE! NEW HAMPSHIRE Trip Leader Melody Patton and 58 fellow Telluriders enjoyed all the fantastic Our New Go-To Destination! bounty that Telluride has to offer. Skiing conditions were sublime and combined Twenty-two SSC members made it onto the with moderate temperatures, bright sunshine and blue skies every day! And, bus to New Hampshire that departed Monday, best of all, no injuries! Some of our travelers spent a bit of time away from skiing February 29 and every one of us felt by trip- to experience some other fun non-ski activities, including snowmobiling, sky end that SSC had rediscovered a hidden jewel gliding with ‘Glider Bob’, heli-skiing, comedy club laughs and visits to the quaint, in NH’s White Mountains. Our skiers and rider historically complete museum in a low-key, authentic western town setting. encountered every kind of condition on the And of course no ski trip is complete without unanticipated adventures! A three mountains that one would expect with power outage the day before we returned home left all of Telluride and most of the kind of winter we’ve been having on the Mountain Village in the dark when a refrigerator-sized boulder fell about 800 East Coast: ice, mashed potatoes, frozen feet and knocked out a transmission line that feeds into the Telluride substation. granular, and even some decent snow! As Our fun-loving SSC’ers came together that evening to create memorable times ever, the camaraderie among SSC’ers both around the fireplace in the comfortable, spacious lobby of Hotel Telluride. We new and “old” was more than enough to make further faced the challenge head-on by packing luggage in total darkness and up for Mother Nature’s antics. We had a blast! navigating throughout with flashlights and We skied Loon on Tuesday accompanied strategically placed candles. Hotel Telluride even Save the Date!! by two Loon Mountain Hosts who toured with prepared a scrumptious breakfast in the dark (yay Saturday, June 18!! our intermediate and advanced skiers the for gas cooking!) on our day of departure. Trip Sales begin at entire day! Wednesday we awoke to a wintry Our perseverance was further tested when the mix, so skiing at Attitash was challenging in majority of our travelers got stranded in Chicago SSC Summer Picnic lots of ways. Thursday brought the best overnight on the way home due to bad weather. at Harrisburg's conditions as Cannon benefited from up to 7” Again, we made the best of circumstances beyond Camp Reily!! of fresh snow the prior day. Off the mountains, our control and worked diligently to get those we enjoyed the amenities of the Indian Head travelers home safely the next day. Resort, including price-included breakfasts Many thanks to our Telluriders for and dinners that exceeded expectations by a creating good times and lasting long shot. On our last evening in town, some memories of our Telluride checked out the Lincoln Ice Castles after we adventures! had a group dinner at local brewery/restaurant Woodstock Station. Other off-mountain activities included shopping, touring Lincoln’s Ice Castles, the New England Ski Museum, and the grand PARK CITY & THE CANYONS HAVE IT ALL! Mount Washington Hotel. Ski93, our tour Park City, Utah played host to 43 SSC members from three states during the company made its presence known through last week of February. We were very blessed to have perfect travel days to and excellent trouble-shooting and almost daily from Utah, with a direct non-stop flight that arrived on time with all of our visits by company president John Tracy. On luggage. Vail resorts now owns both Park City and the Canyons, so our lift ticket the ride home on Friday, March 4, the was good for 7300 skiable acres. Mild weather and snow conditions chased consensus was that SSC should revisit New some of our powder hounds up to higher elevations at nearby resorts including Hampshire again, and soon. Every experience Deer Valley, Powderhorn, Snowbird and Alta. The ever-popular Peaks Hotel we had up there that was within human control was undergoing some renovations thanks to their new owner, but the hospitality was most welcoming, and there’s enough was excellent and the daily breakfast buffet provided the perfect place each potential in the White Mountains to make a morning for all of our participants to exchange stories and connect with return there in a year with more consistent everyone else on the trip. Most of the group participated in a mid-week outing to cold temperatures well worth the drive. the hot springs at Homestead Crater, while others ventured to Salt Lake City for the weekly rehearsal of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and to the nearby Olympic Village for their special features. PERENNIAL FAVE, ELK! This ski town offers shops, restaurants and entertainment galore to suit On Friday, February 19, the club returned to everyone's interests. Our farewell party was held at Adolph's, where one of its favorite Pennsylvania resorts, Elk fine dining meets ski history. Adolph was member of the Swiss Ski Team for Mountain. Forty-one members skied and many years, and the walls of his restaurant are graced by autographed photos snowboarded over 27 runs and enjoyed the of celebrities and skiers from all over the world. Many thanks to everyone who good weather. Elk is well known for its varying helped make this a wonderful trip. It is a destination that should be on terrain and reasonable price, along with the everyone's bucket list.... ~ Dyan Yingst, Trip Leader feel of a welcoming, local ski hill.

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2016-17 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2016-17 SUPPORT STAFF President—Sherry Predix EPSC—Dianne Paukovits Trip Vice President—Dianne Paukovits Marketing/Publicity—open Social Vice President—Terri Falk Meetup—Dyan Yingst Treasurer—Brenda Martin Merchandise—Jim Haslam Secretary—Jordann Silverstine NASTAR racing—Jack Billmyer Membership Chair—Mike Shaw Newsletter—Pam Neidig Trip Coordinator—Gary Smith Night Club Cards—Jack Billmyer Social Coordinator—Sharon Royer Photo Historian—Janet Levine Directors—Jack Billmyer, Karen Close, Ski4Life—Sue Leonard & Nan Davenport Lovena Nickle, Linda Randby Skier Development—open Past President—Brenda Bent Special Olympics—Phil Durgin Volunteers—open Website—Pam Neidig The Chairlift Chatter is published by the Susquehanna Ski & Snowboard Club (SSC). SSC is based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and is a 501(c)(7) social and recreational club which encourages participation in the sports of snow skiing and snowboarding among the residents of central Pennsylvania and promotes fellowship and goodwill among participants in these sports.

IT’S TIME TO RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP! SSC’s new membership year begins April 1, and we urge you to renew your membership today so you don’t miss any of our great events, or a chance to sign up for upcoming trips. You have choice in how to renew your SSC membership: 1. You can personally hand in a completed membership application form (see below) and your check for a year’s member- ship dues at an upcoming club event, or you can mail your form and dues to the club's PO box. Members who choose this option can expect to receive confirmation of current membership in approximately 2-3 weeks. 2. You can renew your membership online. Members who choose this option can be sure that SSC has correct contact in- formation for them (it can be challenging to decipher handwritten applications) and will receive immediate confirmation of current membership when dues are paid online. To facilitate the online renewal process, each current SSC membership will receive an email from the club in mid-March. This email will include directions for logging on to our website's member- ship app where you can complete the renewal process. If you have forgotten your password, a link is provided in these emails for obtaining a new temporary password. The first part of the membership renewal process includes reviewing your individual (or family/household) contact information in our member records. If your email address(es), mailing address, and/ or telephone number(s) have changed, this is the time to update our records. Click on the “Edit Profile” button at the top of your profile page to make changes. When you’re ready to complete the process, click on the “Renew until April 1, 2017” button. This will initiate a membership dues payment loop, where you have the option of paying your dues by mailing in a check, by paying with your PayPal account, or by paying your dues with a debit or credit card. Special note for our Gold Ski lifetime members: Lifetime members are included in the online (email reminder) membership "renewal" process, even though your continued membership in our club is free. We reach out to our lifetime members every year in this way to ensure we don’t lose touch with you! Please log on and click the "Renew" button after checking your contact information! You will NOT be asked to complete a membership dues payment loop. This is just to keep our records current.