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Downhill Only Club 2016 DHOjournal DOWNHILL ONLY CLUB 2016 DHOJournal•2016•1 Contents www.downhillonly.com DHOjournal 3 Editorial Freddie Whitelaw LIST OF ADVERTISERS 4 Disconnected Jottings 62 Alpia Sport Wengen Season 2015/2016 35 Altitude 11 Wengen Manager’s Report Andrew Davies 60 Aspen Hotel 12 Race Results 2015/16 47 Bahnhof Restaurant Kleine Scheidegg 42 Brandegg Restaurant 19 President’s Report 2016 Michael Woodhall 8 Brechin Management Limited 21 Coggins Report 2016 Bob Eastwood 42 Central Sport Racing 44 Chalet Stella Alpina 18 Coggins, Eagles & Adult Ski Courses 27 DHO Performance Group Toby & Rory Francis 44 Da Sina-Sina’s Pub 29 Race Faces 20 DHO Merchandise 30 British Schoolboys Championships Ingie Christophersen 62 Eigernordwand Restaurant 32 British Schoolgirls Races Sarah Robinson 7 Eiger Restaurant 39 AICC, Lech, Austria 2016 Liz Moore 36 Eigergletscher Restaurant 41 Racing & Training Report Michael Woodhall & Ingie Christophersen ibc Elemental Adventure 43 Inferno Rennen 2016 Theo Taylor 14 Hotel Caprice 50 Hotel Falken General 28 Hotel Sunstar 45 Old Dogs and New Tricks Katrina Clayton 10 Imperial Hotels, The Morton Hotel 46 Wengen Worthy - Pierre Lanz Brian Bollen 35 Jägerstübli Restaurant 49 Facial Fungus Nigel Ley & Freddie Whitelaw ifc Jungfraubahn 23 Lake District Estates 51 Schoolboys Return to Wengen Brian Bollen 2 Last Frontier Heliskiing 56 DHO Inferno 2016 Brian Bollen 59 Männlichen Cablecar 61 DHO Sea View Regatta Huw Alban Davies 27 Mendelssohn Music Week Wengen 63 Fourth Annual DHO Golf Day Dermot Gilvary 24 MPI Brokers 67 Spring Tour 2016 Richard Wylde 47 Oxfordshire Glass 70 Skiing and Cycling... The Perfect Marriage Lee Townend 9 Paterson/Eiger Residence 73 Obituaries 17 Penthouse Wolf Wengen 77 Wengen Curling Club Sara Weech 69 Privat Schneesportschule bc Pure Powder DHO Club News 2016 62 Raiffeisenbank 81 Club Notes 65 Roossi Huus Apartment 83 DHO Calendar 2016/17 55 Scheidegg Hotels 40 Ski Mojo 83 Officers & Committee Members 69 Skiset 86 New Members 2016 and Membership List 2016 27 Solent Sunbeam Photos supplied by: 38 Snoworks Nigel Ley, Bob Eastwood, Adolf Schlunnegger, Christian Lauener, Richard Berry, Geoffrey Gay, Liz Moore, Flaine-photozoom/ 69 Swiss Made Shop Johan Marot, Rachel Eastwood, Lee Townend, Max Davies, John Duckett, Andrew Davies, Brian Bollen, Harriet Hadfield, 62 Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Sara Weech, Dermot Gilvary, Rhian Woods, Tessa Lawrance, Valery Speirs, Diane Paterson, Richard Wylde, Sheridan Killwick, 85 Wengen Apotheke Pierre Lanz, Ingie Christophersen, Freddie Whitelaw, David Swindells, Theodore Taylor, Caroline Gay, David Orf, Inferno-Muerren. 66 Wengen Classic Hotels Important Notice: Contributions to the 2017 Journal should be sent by June 1st 2017 to: Freddie Whitelaw, The Hon. Editor, DHO Journal, Riverside Cottage, Fellows Lane, Caergwrle, Wrexham LL12 9AU Tel 01978 769333. Email [email protected] Advertising: Dermot Gilvary, 6 Harrington Way, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6SE Tel 01572 755550 Mobile 07710 539807 e-mail: dermot.gilvary.gmail.com Follow us on Twitter - Design: @DHOWengen Paul Eustice Design, tel: 01209 716151, e-mail: [email protected], www.pauleusticedesign.com Find us on Facebook - Front cover: Toby Bryer of Wellington in the Schoolboys International Championships. DHO Wengen DHOJournal•2015•3 Editor Editorial Freddie Whitelaw It is well over forty years since the Editor How things have changed. We still ski, we position 2 and 3. When, several years after first came to Wengen. He joined a party of still travel to Switzerland and we still drive the Schoolgirls championships were created, friends organised by DHO member Nigel cars that use hydro carbon fuels. It is the rate it was decided there ought to be a matching Cornelius and we all stayed at the Hotel at which it all changes that upsets us. After Schoolboys Championships, somehow the Falken. A two weeks holiday package was the referendum, some of us may have feared DHO were persuaded to volunteer to offered by Thos Cook, inclusive of half for a rapid change in the exchange rate and organise it and this we have done ever since. board, and I was horrified to discover that the consequent increase in the cost of our The home to the Schoolboys Championships I was to be charged a £10 surcharge for a skiing holidays. But as we get used to the has varied over the years, having briefly single room supplement for the fortnight, idea that last year’s prices will never quite started in Wengen, but then moved around flights from Gatwick, coach and train to return, so, in all probability, we will still con- before residing in Meiringen for a few years. Lauterbrunnen, and my two weeks cost me tinue to return to ski and to visit Wengen. It is pleasing that they have now returned a total of exactly £100, all the others, being Long may it continue. to Wengen and that the first running of couples, paid £90 per head. Today that same these championships took place under the £90 would not even cover my drinks bill for organisation of Richard and Maureen Berry, a single week, let alone the two weeks of my who have been the guiding light ever since. first holiday. The British School There is an article in this Journal about their return to Wengen this last season. This And whilst I no longer recall how much Boys International coming year Wengen will have a bumper I earned in those days, I suspect that holiday racing week, because both the Schoolboys cost more than one month’s salary. Which is Championships International Championships and the Lucy more, perhaps, of a comment on salary Dicker, Tourist Cup and McMillan Cup are inflation than on the variation in the The Schoolgirls Championships were all squeezed into the same week. exchange rate in the meantime, although I do started by the Ladies Ski Club, a very long recall about CHF10 to the pound Sterling in established ski club that was formed in those days. Mürren by its “God-Father” Arnold Lunn in 1923 which makes it older than even the My first nearly new car was a 1962 Mini. Kandahar! K claims that the Ladies Ski Club It cost brand new, including purchase tax, was not initially a racing ski club, so just under £500. I could fill the tank and have Kandahar can claim that they are the oldest a few pence change from a £1 note. Petrol Alpine racing ski club in the world, and so was between 4 and 5 pence a litre. by the same logic, SAS and DHO can claim 4•DHOJournal•2016 DisconnectedJottings Membership cards New Honorary The club is introducing a membership card of the card and full details of their offers for all those visiting Wengen. will be listed on the notice board. Member When a member arrives in the clubroom there will be a stock of cards on the bar. The four ski shops have discounts on Divina Galica is one of our best ever Simply take one, enter your name, sign the equipment hire and some have additional racing members, she was a long time card and note your name against the receipt offers on purchases. At the time of going British ski team member and one of a list. A number of establishments are offering to print those hotels agreeing to offer threesome (Gina Hathorn, Bunny Field advantages to DHO members on advantages are the Caprice, Falken and and herself) that delivered the best ever presentation of this membership card. Those Wengen Classic hotels (Silberhorn etc.). British skiing results at the 1968 Grenoble establishments will be listed on the back Winter Olympics. She was also in charge of our Racing and Training programme before her second career of motor racing Invitation for DHO members took her to the USA and there she remains, with regrettably infrequent visits to the UK to visit relatives. She was invited to become an Honorary Member by Michael Woodhall in recognition of both her ski racing successes and her enormous efforts with our trainees. Her response follows: Dear Michael Thank you for your letter, I am delighted to accept your kind offer to become an Honorary member of the DHO. I have so many happy memories of my time in Wengen in the 60s as a trainee inspired by Ros Hepworth and Werner Staeger, and in the 70s and 80s helping John Latimer with the Junior Training. I hope one day to return during the ski season and meet the new generation of DHO members and committee who make the DHO such a great club. I am delighted to still receive the Journal which is how I keep up to date with the events and people in Wengen. With sincere thanks Divina Galica DHOJournal•2016•5 DHO Crazy Golf Competition August 2016 The crazy golf competition is now part of Results the summer programme of activities of the club, and occurs in the 2 week period Name Score surrounding Swiss National Day (1st (1) Price, David 55 August), (1) Price, Elijah 55 (3) Price, Gabriel 58 (4) Phil Bamford 59 (5) Price, Amy 63 (6) Davies, Susie 64 (6) Price, Martha 64 (8) Ley, Nigel 76 (9) Bartlett, David 91 (10) Hill, Phillip 94 (11) Bartlett, Wendy 105 (12) Hill, Wendy 106 David and Elijah Price, 1st equal. Ski Club Insurance Extended to DHO Races Nigel Ley, Vice President The wording in the new policy says this: As many DHO members are also members Last season the Ski Club of Great Britain “Participation in ski or snowboard races is of the Ski Club I raised this with the Club’s changed its insurance underwriters and with not covered except for casual, recreational Chief Executive Frank McCusker. I am this change came an alteration in the policy activities which do not require registration, pleased to report that he has resolved it.
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