Welcome to the Hill Ski Club We're a very informal and fun-loving bunch of people, always getting together for fun outdoor activities: skiing, biking, white water rafting, hiking, camping, and any other fun outdoor stuff you can think of. Although we're based at Hill Air Force Base (just south of Ogden), we're open to anyone, civilian or military. In fact, many of our members have had no affiliation with the military at all! We meet periodically at local restaurants in the Layton area for our meetings, enjoying snacks, drinks and good company as we go over our fun trips or just trade jokes and tall ski tales. To join our club, click here. This page will help you download a printable application form. Just print it, fill it out, and mail it to us with a check for $15, and we'll send you your membership card. Our club has joined with others in the region to form the Intermountain Ski Council. We all share a pool of expertise, trips, and people to provide more fun activities and better discounts than ever possible. Click here to read more about us, the council, and the national organizations that will make this even better!

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LATEST NEWS .....

HOW'D IT GO?

8 November, Social Dinner at MacCool's About 10 of us showed up for a great meal, fine specialty beer, and fun conversation with good friends. We'll be doing more of this later next month. In fact, the food was so tasty that John and Ken couldn't decide who got the leftovers!

HOT INFORMATION

Our calendar is down for a bit, so use the Intermountain Ski Council calendar for the time being while I get ours fixed. New Ski Clubs! National Ski Organization! We've had lots of changes lately. Here's the breakdown: The Far West Ski Association has formally accepted us. We are now officially associated with them. Look for lots of discounts and benefits in the near future. The Cheyenne Ski Club has now officially joined our Intermountain Ski Council. More clubs are planning to join us, including: Bogus Basin Boise State ISU BYU USU U of U We're already getting benefits and discounts. Snowbasin already gives us a lift ticket discount, while Marriot is helping our out-of-town visitors for the February Snowbasin trip. I'm putting some of the benefits and discounts I know of at the bottom of this page, with more to come. We have a lot of fun and exciting stuff heading our way.

WHAT'S NEXT:

We have a lot of trips we can sign up for. below is a breakdown of what's available and whom to contact. All you gotta do is check your calendar, pick a trip that fits your schedule, and call the "trip captain" to pay and sign up. Then just pack up and hop in the car, bus or plane, and head off for some great fun! Jan 19 - 26, 2008: Far West Ski Trip to Whistler January 19-26, 2008. Sign up now as over 700 Far West skiers are expected! Passports valid for six months beyond ski week are required. Click here for more info and to sign up. January 18-21, 2008: Jackson Hole with the Cheyenne Ski club Bus trip to and from Cheyenne, 3 nights at Elk Country Inn Trip cost from $164 to $273, depending on lodging details (private, room for 4, etc.) This will cost us less since we'll drive there. Contact the trip captains for details; also see their website here. Contacts: Jodee Pring, 307-637-6944, jpring@seo.wyo.gov Darwin Pace, 307-634-7815, blue29@bresnan.net Three Denver Ski Club trips where we can tag along: The Denver-based "Up The Creek Ski And Rec Club" is joining our Intermountain Ski Council, and has some trips which we can help them fill. Two of them are bus-based from Denver, but they're working on a "U- drive" option for us to help fill the empty seats. They're also offering us the member rates. Jan 18 - 21: Telluride Bus from Denver to Telluride, 3 nights lodging, Saturday night group dinner. Trip cost, UTC Members: $390.00, Non-Members $410.00 Contacts: Kelly Calabrese, 719-590-9879 fitfocus@qwest.net Curtis Cloutier, 303-667-6902 Curtis@Webolutions.com Feb 22 - 24: Crested Butte Bus from Denver to Telluride, 2 nights accomodation with continental breakfast each morning. Trip cost is members: $205, non-members: $225 Contacts: Lora Carlile, clk9@qwest.net Curtis Cloutier, 303-667-6902, Curtis@Webolutions.com. Mar 7 1 9: Beaver Creek (just west of Vail) "U-drive" trip, 2 nights accomodation, Friday Wine & Cheese Happy Hour Reception, Saturday, optional group dinner at restaurant Trip Cost for Members $160.00, Non-Members $174.00 Contacts: Rusty Grout 720-940-7341 bwgrout@yahoo.com Carla Miller 720-733-1136 caribn_sol@yahoo.com Feb 22-24: Snowbasin with the Idaho Falls Ski Club Intermountain Ski Council It's a travel trip for lots of the out-of-town clubs, but this is in our back yard! We can sign up for the cheap tickets, then share the fun and the invitation to the Saturday evening reception. We can't miss this! Our Idaho Falls friends have info here. You can sign up for your discounted lift tickets here. Contacts: Joe Coles, vp@intermountainskicouncil.com Lennia & Gary Machen, 522-5831, snowfun@ida.net FEB 15-23: ST ANTON, AUSTRIA !!! Idaho Falls Ski Club is running this incredible trip, and we're invited. Fly from SLC airport to Munich, motorcoach to St. Anton in Austria, stay in three-star Hotel Nassereiner Hof. Breakfast and full dinner included in price. Cost: $1,925 per person double occupancy Contact: Jim Rose, 208-522-2038, IFSCtrip@gmail.com There's more info at their website. MARCH 7 - 15, 2008: SKI THE FRENCH ALPS!! 2008 FWSA European Ski Week will be in the French Alps at Les Trois Vallees March 7 - 15. There's also the option of a Provence and Paris post-extension. More info in this pdf file. For questions or to sign up contact Norm Azevedo at 925.944.0420 or fwsaitravel@sbcglobal.net May 2008: Far West Council Meeting: Seattle Silent auction, trips, hotels, ski outfits, skis ... great fun! January 2009: Far West ski trip to Big Sky

$$$$ DISCOUNTS!!! $$$$

Snowbasin Discount! All Hill Ski Club members get a discount on lift tickets at Snowbasin! Go to the ticket window at Snowbasin, show your Hill Ski Club 2008 membership card and picture ID to the ticket agent, and get $12 off of the ticket price. So, do the math: buy a membership for $15 ... and get $12 off of the lift ticket price each time you ski at Snowbasin. ResortQuest Discount Since our club is part of the National Ski Council Federation as well as the Far West Ski Association, we get a 15% discount on lodging. The discount applies "when booked direct by NSCF member," that is, "you" So, when you book lodging there, identify yourself as a NSCF member through your Hill Ski Club membership. click here Dominator Ski Wax Discount Identify yourself as a member of FWSA and receive a discounted price on your next order of Dominator Ski Wax

OTHER IMPORTANT STUFF:

PRINTING THE CALENDAR: The calendar is down now. I'm getting away from the pdf version, and will do a simplified web version. IMPORTANT E-MAIL TIPS! Some folks are not getting e-mail, especially those people with Hotmail. This is usually easy to fix, though. Some common solutions are: Empty your mailbox. If your mailbox is full, then mail just gets bounced back. Sometimes the free services such as Yahoo mail and Hotmail don't even bounce them back: they often just vanish. Remember that since we're all plagued with spam, mailboxes fill up faster. Check your filter settings. Are you blocking us? are you only allowing certain names attached to valid e-mail addresses? Is your spam filter too aggressive? If it's blocking our messages then it's probably blocking other important stuff as well. "Don't toss out the baby with the bathwater!" Tune up your computer. Make sure it's running ok: keep the taskbar clean, defrag regularly, clean out the temporary internet files, etc. If you don't, then your machine gets "clogged arteries and diabetes." Remember, your system's like a car: if you keep it serviced and cleaned, it'll work a lot better. And you'll get those messages for our great "low tech" fun events!