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Date: 5/31/2020
Subject: ACTION S&S Club June 2020 Newsletter
From: Action Ski & Snowboard Club (No Replies)



NEWSLETTER  |  JUNE 2020

PREZ SEZ
 
 With most ski trip related reservation systems being closed due to the current pandemic, the Action Board has decided to defer all 2021 ski trip plans until better reservation options become available and resorts start advertising their precautionary procedures. 
 
 In the meantime, Action’s ski trip to Zermatt scheduled for March 17 to 28, 2021, will not be going on sale to Action members, until we can obtain confirmation for safe travel, lodging and open ski slopes. Without knowing when the restaurant / hospitality industry returns to normalcy, it will be difficult to imagine any ski trip having a chance for much success. We are definitely not giving up on our 2021 ski season just yet, but we will be taking a conservative approach, with our foremost concern being the health and safety of all Action members.
 
 Please visit actionski.org for future updates, and we will be sending out bi-monthly email communications, which includes our newsletter. We are soliciting board and members to submit a paragraph with pictures of your favorite ski destination to newsletter@actionski.org, so we can share and virtually re-live those experiences in our subsequent newsletters. Let us know which resorts count as your most memorable ski destinations.
 
 Please stay safe and help all of us flatten the curve as quickly as possible, so we can look forward to better days soon.
 

Roger




Purchase or Renew your IKON Pass for next season, and save big time!

Purchase your IKON pass at the same price and terms from IkonPass.com, or Action Ski Club recommends purchasing from Ski.com, which will extend club discounts that are passed on to Action Ski trip participants.

Use this link to purchase from Ski.com
https://action-ski-club-passes.events.ski.com/ikon-passes
 
Purchase by June 17, 2020, before prices increase

Buyers can choose the deferral option before December 10, 2020
(Defer your IKON Pass to the 2021/2022 season)

 
Click here for instructions

GENERAL MEETING + HAPPY HOUR

[June 3rd meeting has been cancelled]
Wednesday, Aug 5th
5:30 - 8:00

Location is TBD
given the current COVID-19 situation


Membership Renewal Notice
$35 early bird special until 8/31/2020


 

 REVELSTOKE

with the North Bowl Experience

 

A trip to the North Bowl on Revelstoke Mountain:

 
Hike up from top of Stoke Chair via “Lemming Line” to “Drop-in” or “Mania”, which are double-diamond black slopes of a huge powder bowl named “North Bowl”:

When you face uphill, you can see the trail for “Lemming Line” to the “North Bowl”:

After 10 to 15 minutes you arrive at the narrow travers (which only exists, if you’re not the first one up there after a snow dump):

View when looking forward on the travers at the top:

 

The further you travers, the less steep is the bowl entry.  As you see, many travers for quite some distance, as initial terrain is double-black plus steep.

After a few turns down the powder bowl: powder may be deep

Gradually the terrain becomes less steep:

Eventually the bowl turns into trees that eventually has you arrive at the bottom of the Ripper Chair.  Total vertical from top: 7,350 feet, down the North Bowl for just over 2,000 vertical feet.

Likes about Revelstoke:

  • Snow conditions tend to be excellent through March 
  • Huge powder bowl, but you have to hike 10 minutes up the hill
  • Many tree skiing opportunities
  • Highest ski vertical in North America over 5,600 feet
  • Longest run is almost 10 miles long
  • No lift lines, unless it dumps, which backs up at the bottom only for about an hour at lift opening
  • Only 20-minute bus ride to slopes from village
  • Plenty of breweries and pubs and restaurants within walking distance
  • Price
  • Poutine heaven, everywhere you go

Don’t Likes about Revelstoke:

  • Remote location and requires all day travel from San Diego
  • Ski equipment may get delayed delivery, due to final flight on small plane
Roger

SKI TRIP MEMORIES

 

Greeting Actioneers!

 
I hope you are all surviving the Corona Virus Pandemic sweeping across the country and the world. My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone who have lost friends and family, and to everyone out of work and struggling to feed their families and cover expenses during this difficult time. I certainly hope that wide spread testing will become more available and also an effective vaccine will be developed soon so that the country can open back up and we can put this behind us.

 

It is unfortunate that Action had to cancel the last two Mammoth trips, the Bow Willow camping trip, plus our happy hours and year end party, so I thought it would be good to reminisce about past ski trips, over the years. I’ve been in Action since the mid 90’s I've gone on many fun trips with the club. Whether the snow conditions were bleak or great, I always managed to have a great time with Action. Here are some of my pics that bring back great Memories!

Shannon Miller and Lenny Fraitag on Stump Alley, March 2012. Shannon was one of the first people I met in the club and is one of its longest serving members. Lenny and I joined Action’s board in 1998. He served as Membership Director and Trips Director for ten years.

On the 2013 Super Bowl trip with Janet Katz at the top of the Cornice.

Tom on Chair 21, March 2015

View down Cloverleaf toward Canyon Lodge, March 2015

Canyon Express Chair, March 2015

Tom at his usual Lunch spot uphill from The Mill, March 2015

"Snow Ghosts" at Whitefish, February 2016

Janet and Dale Dalrymple surrounded by "Snow Ghosts", February 2016

 Top of Mammoth, January 2017 

McCoy Station, March 2017

Mammoth Main Lodge. The snow was so high you stepped down from it to the 2nd floor deck outside Tusks. April, 2017

Actioneers at the top of Chair 5, February 2018

2018-2019 was another huge snow season with just under 500 inches. View of Dropout and Wipeout from Chair 23, April 2019

The Incredible Hulk Next to Chair 23, April 2019

Top of Dave's Run, April 2019

The widest I have ever seen Hang Man's, April 2019

At the top of Wipeout 3 looking down toward Chair 23, March 2013

Mammoth Mountain made the cover of Sunset Magazine, February 1963


Copper Mountain

On Thursday, March 12, eleven Actioneers (with two to follow later) met at the San Diego airport for what would be a very interesting trip to Copper Mountain in Colorado. Everything on the outbound trip went off without a hitch. We all arrived without incident to our condos in the town of Frisco, which were great. Each one had four spacious bedrooms with a variety of bedding options, and were clean and with full kitchens. Despite an initial issue with a lack of bar soap (not really good timing given the hand washing recommendations in place!), everyone settled in nicely. 

 

Friday morning was a beautiful day, and we all headed out on the free town shuttle to the ski area. The skiing was awesome!! Friday night saw various dinner plans, and Saturday was another great day of skiing at Copper. And that’s where the normal part of a ski trip ended… As Dirk and I were preparing dinner in one of the condos, we realized that our plans for Sunday were going to have to change: Arapahoe Basin was going to be closed on Sunday due to fears about Coronavirus transmission. Okay, no problem. We’ll just cancel the private shuttle we had hired and go back to Copper instead. And so we resumed our group dinner of wonderful mixed kebabs prepared by our guest chef Dirk, with help from lots of sous-chefs in the kitchen. 

 

Before we could get to dessert, we learned that all ski resorts in the area were closing for at least a week due per orders from the Governor. Ugh! This was going to need a big change of plans. It was already later at this point, so we all went to bed with plans to re-group at 8am Sunday morning. By the time we met, I had already been on the phone and we were able to get everyone accommodated on shuttles back to DEN. During out meeting everyone changed their SWA flights for appropriate times on Sunday (thanks SWA for no change fees!), and we cut our trip short. 

 

Little did we know that weekend, Mid-March, would be the last “normal” one in a while. I know for me, it was the last time I:

Went to a bar

Went to a restaurant

Wore makeup

Wore button pants (!!)

Hugged anyone that wasn’t a family member

 

I’m really glad we went - it was an adventure! And I’m even more glad that everyone got home without getting sick. Special thanks to everyone on the trip who rolled with the punches without getting upset, and helped everything go as smoothly as possible. Here’s looking forward to more normal times when we can ski together again!

 
Leah

ACTION AND OUR CARBON FOOTPRINT IN 2020!
Leave No Footprint!
 
We have a limited number of wine (12 oz) and beverage (20 oz) tumblers that you will want to use over and over again.  Available for purchase at the next General Meeting and at Action Events. 
 
Many colors available and sizes are shown in the picture above. Keeps beverages cold for 8-12 hrs and hot for 3-5 hrs. Comes with tight fitting lid. Tumblers are $9 each, $10 with Action Sticker (limited).
 
Choose your color and size, Reuse and Lower our Carbon Footprint.