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Ann Arbor Ski Club Monthly Newsletter
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5 . 20 . 2021
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Rapid Round-up of Reminders
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2022 Ski Trips at a Glance |
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Corn Roast 2021 -- It's Official |
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A Corn Roast was approved for Sunday August 29 to be held at Hudson Mills Metropark.
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The BOD extended the membership year by an additional 12 months. Therefore existing memberships are automatically extended until 04-30-2022.
Any NEW person wishing to join the club before that time must pay $20 dues
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Annual Business Meeting Delayed |
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The annual business meeting/election is delayed until March 2022. All board positions and officers of the Ann Arbor Ski Club are extended until the next annual business meeting, per the A2SC constitution.
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The club has stopped accepting online payments. Checks or cash only.
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General Meetings to Restart in September
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Mt. Brighton will be used again for the February and March 2022 General Meetings. Otherwise, 2021-2022 General Meetings are planned—one for each month between September and March and two in April 2022 (Elections and Aloha), but we don’t know where. Cobblestone is not yet accepting reservations. There's a rumor they might start again in June.
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Who's Who - 2021
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Normally we start our new year in May with the expectation that everyone who wants will rejoin by or at the Corn Roast. Also, May in most years is the month that the new year's elected officers and Board get started taking over where the previous team left off. A once in 100-year pandemic changed all that. Because the BOD had to twice postpone the club's Annual Meeting due to the health crisis we're starting a third year, per the club's bylaws, with the same officers and Board of Directors. Here are some of the key players. |
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Above are the volunteers who are also Directors on the Board. Below are a couple more of the over 100 volunteers that help run this club... when we're not having a pandemic. |
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A look back at normal times. We can get kind of busy, right? |
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Formal scheduled events are still a ways out. Stay safe! Your editor has heard of multiple biking meetups getting on our social calendar in June. |
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The Fast Lane
Comments from our leadership on the 2022 ski trip season. |
Ski Lift Tickets
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Note: All advance purchase of EPIC and IKON season passes are non-refundable. |
The trip costs we've published may change as a new travel industry supporting snow sports evolves post-pandemic.
The big players have changed how people buy lift passes. Multi-resort passes such as EPIC and IKON are becoming the primary way to ticket lift passes and buying one early, since they're discounted, might be a good idea for you. Each system has multiple offers from which to choose so it's vital to do your research. Whistler, Park City, and Mount Brighton are EPIC resorts. Big Sky, Boyne Highlands, and Boyne Mountain are IKON resorts. |
Early Purchase Advice
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For members considering our trips and advanced purchase of discounted multi-resort season passes, our Out West leadership for 2022--- Carol, Irene, and Lane-- offers the following advice. They think it makes sense to advance purchase an EPIC or IKON ski pass for the 2021-2022 season... ONLY IF One, A member travelling with us next year plans to ski a lot of EPIC or IKON resorts out west.
OR Two, A member considering Whistler and/or Park City and who plans to ski Mt. Brighton a lot with an EPIC pass
OR Three, A member considering Big Sky and who plans to ski Boyne Mountain, and/or Boyne Highlands a lot with an IKON pass OR A member plans a combination of One with Two or Three, which then justifies the investment of a discounted advance purchase that cannot be refunded. |
But, Whistler!
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As for Whistler, the border with Canada is closed. Trip leaders anticipate it will be open in January 2022, but that is not guaranteed.
Therefore, we don’t think it wise to advance purchase an EPIC pass for use only there. For this trip the leaders were able to organize a nicely priced EPIC-branded 5-day pass.
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The Ski Trip Committee created a poster describing our next ski season. They'll keep updating this poster as more details come in. |
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Prices Across the Board Increased
Trip prices are increasing quite a bit in 2022 over our 2020 trips.
Air, lift tickets, and lodging all went up.
For example, with Big Sky the trip airfare went up $149, lift tickets $112, and housing $72 for a total increase of $333. A 16% increase over our last pre-pandemic quote.
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The Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission is interested in your thoughts about your experiences on the Border to Border Trail (B2B). Include your contact information if you would like to be entered to win a B2B trucker hat! Take the survey. |
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Memorial Day, the unofficial start of Summer, is also a Federal holiday honoring our fallen veterans, the ones who made the ultimate sacrifice fighting for our country. Originally called Decoration Day and devoted to honoring Civil War Union casualties, over time it was expanded to include other veterans who died in service. It became an official Federal holiday in 1968 at the same time the three-day weekend got invented, which brings us back to the start of Summer. It's going to be a big weekend this year. Little known fact: Memorial Day is tied for second as the most popular day for grilling. Nobody ever knew that before! Fifty-six percent of Americans cook outside on that day. Guess which day is number one. |
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Break out your white!Show them that you know you're cool. |
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National Park Service App |
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Follow up on some of our partners in the snow sports industry here.
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Volunteer Rewards Participants |
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