July_August 2016 Schussboomer Newsletter

www.indyskiclub.org
July - August 2016
NEWS FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS
Volume 56, No. 4
Dates to put on your club calendar:
July 15 - Symphony on the Prairie, Music of John Williams. See article
July 21 - Thursday Thirst, 6 pm, Bella Vita on Geist
August 6 - 5-8 pm Eats & Beats, Mallow Run Winery, Bargersville (contact Lisa)
August 18 - 6 pm, Thursday Thirst, Hops & Fire Craft Tap House, 135 & County
Line Greenwood
Sept 15 - 6 pm, Thursday Thirst at Champps North, 8711 River Crossing Blvd
Sept 18 - ISC PICNIC at Indianapolis Sailing Club (see article)
Contact person for all social stuff is Lisa Sindelar, 709-5231
Here are a few other events; hundreds more are listed at www.visitindy.com
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7/15
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Michael McDonald, center for Performing Arts
Weird Al Yankovich, white river State Park
Mozart, Symphony on the Prairie
Last Summer with Barenaked Ladies, White R SP
John Hammond, the Warehouse, Carmel
Noon Ice Cream Social on the Circle, downtown
Indy Criterium Bike fest, Circle downtown
Polka Boy at Mallow run Winery Bargersville
Gordon Bonham at the Slippery Noodle
Summer Jazz Fest, Central Library
Indpls Symphony in Ellenberger Park
Soundz of Santana, Eiteljorg Museum
Jersey Boys, Close-up, Downtown Marriott
Concert on Canal, Brenda Williams,, Ind Hist Soc
Music of Steely Dan, Klipsch Center Noblesville
ulture Club (holy 80s!) at Clowes, Butler U
Jennie Devoe at Nickel Plate
Cheap Trick, Heart, Joan Jett at Klipsch
Gregg Allman & Peter Frampton, White R SP
Coldplay at Bankers Life Fieldhouse
Brickyard Block party on Georgia Street
Kenny Rogers at Hoosier Park casino
Music of Billy Joel & Elton John, Conner Prairie
Dave Matthews Band, Klipsch
Diabetes 250, Indpls Motor Speedway
Jim Gaffigan, Bankers Like Fieldhouse
Kid Rock, Indpls Motor speedway
Brickyard 400 NASCAR
Temptations and the Four Tops, Symph on Prairie
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8/15
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8/19-9/3
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8/31-9/5
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9/11
9/18
Gwen Stefani at Klipsch
Gen Con Tapper, Georgia Street
Music of Abba, Symphony on the Prairie
GooGoo Dolls, Collective Soul at White R SP
Colts vs Packers at Canton OH
Indiana State Fair
Colts at Buffalo
Symphony on the Prairie, music of the Beatles
International Music & Food Fest, Georgia Street
Blues Traveler, State Fair
Rickie Lee Jones at Clowes
Beach Boys at White R SP
ZZ Top at Hoosier Park Casino
Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet, Garfield Park
Sausage Fest, St Thomas Aquinas Church
Ravens at Colts in the Luke
Counting Crowes at Klipsch
Dixie Chicks at Klipsch
Michael Kelsey at Garfield Park
Symphony o t Prairie, Music of Michael Jackson
Indpls Wine festival, American Legion Mall
Indpls Light festival, the canal
Philadelphia at Colts
Chicago at Hoosier Park Casino
NHRA Nationals, Raceway Park Avon
Colts at Bengals
Black Sabbath at Klipsch
Colts at Lions
Colts at Denver 430 pm
Latest info is always on the club website www.indyskiclub.org
Social calendar
Bicycling news… still more riding!!!
A peek at next year’s trips
Get involved with YOUR club!
IN THIS
ISSUE….
2016 Club Picnic moved to September this year
We (the board) are currently planning to have the annual ISC picnic in September rather than
August due to availability of clubhouse and also to allow time to arrange good air pricing for
trips (Southwest can only be booked less than 6 months in advance).
The date is Sunday, Sept 18—more info in the September SchussBoomer and on the website
Tentative Indianapolis Ski Club 2017 Trip Schedule
Snowmass CO
$1520
36 spaces
Jan 14 thru Jan 21 (Sat-Sat) (Southwest to Denver)
- 7 nights at Top of the Village (2BR/2BA/4 per condo and
3BR/3BA/6 per condo), ski-in/ski-out, ground transfer,
pizza party, welcome wine & cheese party
- 5 day interchangeable lift ticket for Snowmass, Aspen, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk
- Final payment due: Sept 18 Deposit = full amount
- Ground pkg. $1,280
Contact: Dick Surber – 317-818-9293-H
[email protected]
Beaver Creek CO
$1570
36 spaces
Jan 28 thru Feb 4 (Sat-Sat) (Southwest to Dener)
- 7 nights at The Charter at Beaver Creek (2BR/2BA/4 per
condo), walk to lift
- ground transfer, welcome reception, pizza party
- 5 of 8 day interchangeable lift for Beaver Creek, Vail,
Breckenridge, Keystone & Arapahoe Basin
Final payment due: Oct. 20 Deposit = $150
-Ground pkg. $1,335
Contact: Priscilla Johnson – 317-289-7776-C
[email protected]
Banff with OVSC
$1600
36 spaces
Feb. 11 thru Feb 18 (Sat-Sat) (United to Calgary)
- 7 nights at Banff Caribou Inn (2/rm) in downtown Banff,
ground transfer, daily hot buffet breakfast, pizza party, 5
day interchangeable lift for Lake Louise, Sunshine & Norquay
- Passport required for this trip
- Final payment due: Nov. 2 Deposit = $150
- Ground pkg. $1,025
Contact: Debbie Stubbs – 260-609-7906-C
[email protected]
Steamboat CO
$1390
36 spaces
Feb. 25 thru Mar 4 (Sat-Sat) (United to Denver)
- 7 nights at The Phoenix Condos (2BR/2BA/4 per condo
and 4BR/4BA/8 per condo), walk to lifts
- ground transfer, welcome reception, pizza party
- 5 day lift ticket, plus $50 food credit voucher valid at
Steamboat Ski Resort owned locations if we have 25+
skiers
- Final payment due Nov. 15 Deposit = $150
- Ground pkg. $1,068
Contact: Jackie Sundboom – 317-413-3358-C
[email protected]
Serre Chevalier/Nice France $2510** 16 spaces
Mar 10 thru Mar. 22 (Fri-Tues) (Delta to Milan)
-7 nights at Hotel Plein Sud (2/rm)
-7 breakfasts/dinners @ Hotel Plein Sud
-Possible to ski 6 days. Lift tickets not included
-Bus from Briancon to Nice
-3 nights at the 4 star Hotel Splendid (2/rm)
-breakfast buffet daily
-Delta air from Nice to Indy
**Subject to Currency / Fuel / Tax variances
- Final payment due TBA
Deposit = $300
Contact: Randy Ridgway – 765-650-6168-C
[email protected]
Vail CO
$1490
34 spaces
Apr 1 thru Apr 8 (Sat-Sat) (United to Denver
-7 nights lodging at The Antlers at Vail (2BR/2BA/4 per
condo and 3BR/3BA/6 per condo), walk to lifts
- ground transfer, pizza party,
- 5 of 8 day interchangeable lift for Beaver Creek, Vail,
Breckenridge, Keystone & Arapahoe Basin
- Final payment due Dec 26 Deposit = $150
- Ground pkg. $1,240
Contact: Jean Ballinger – 317-696-2120-C
[email protected]
Latest info is always on the club website www.indyskiclub.org
WELCOME
NEW MEMBERS
Symphony
on the
Prairie
No new members recently
Be sure to renew early
Please keep the club notified of any
changes in address, phone, or email.
Marilyn Rader is our membership VP
and would be happy to make these updates if you let her know……
Join us Friday, July
15th, "Movie
Music of
John Williams". Ray Battey is the contact person
for both events. Tickets will be available to be
purchased in May from Ray at a cost of $18
(regular gate price is $32).
Contact Ray at [email protected] or 317-842-
Where in the World Are We Going to Ski?
By: Jean Ballinger, Trips VP
Thanks to everyone who took time to tell us where you wanted to ski this coming season by
completing the online survey. The top destinations are the trips you will see on our schedule, with one
exception. Big Sky was the #1 destination, but we’re not going there this year as the trip would have
been $2000+. Hopefully, next year will be different! High airfares and availability have made this
year’s trip planning very challenging, as airfares to smaller towns are especially high. So we’re going
to fly to major cities like Denver, where competition is greater and prices are lower. With that in
mind, I hope you will support our trips! Our board has decided to sponsor six trips this season – five
western and one European. You can find the trip schedule elsewhere in the Boomer.
Believe it or not, we had some difficulty getting trip leaders this season. I received more “no” than
“yes” responses and one “if only it was Big Sky”. (See above for why we’re not going to Big Sky.) So
with that in mind, I want to give a big shout out to those who agreed to be trip leaders: Priscilla
Johnson, Randy Ridgway, Debbie Stubbs, Jackie Sundboom and Dick Surber. Without these
volunteers, the club couldn’t function.
Here’s some food for thought:
WHAT IF . . .
*everybody did what you did?
*every member attended with the regularity you do?
*every member worked as hard or as little as you do?
*every member served on as many projects as you do?
*everybody contacted and brought potential members as often as you do?
*everybody was as tactful and understanding as you are?
*everybody was as thoughtful, considerate and appreciative as you are?
*everybody was as friendly and conscientious as you are?
*everybody was as dependable, enthusiastic and willing as you are?
*everybody had as many, or as few, alibis as you do?
*everybody was as loyal as you are?
*everybody followed your example?
What kind of club would it be?
BIKE WITH INDY SKI CLUB - Ray Battey
Great weather and an enthusiastic group of bike riders has made for a solid start to our weekly
rides. Leaving Broad Ripple on the Monon we have ridden as far south as Garfield Park on the Indy
south side and as far north as Quaker Park at the north end of the Monon. This time of year we often have riders coming out for the first time and they will ride part way, return, and we all meet for
beers/lunch in Broad Ripple. Future rides are planned on the Cardinal Greenway, the Pennsy Trail
and on the Pleasant Run Trail. Even if it has been a few years, come on out and join us (take you
bike in for a check-up first). Hope to see you soon.
The valve stem got pinched and
it blew. Then Paul put in my
spare tube and they blew it up
while they were pumping it up!
Then Ray had a spare one but it
was Presta not Schrader but
they put it on anyway and it
held. We finally got to the new
brew pub so the guys were
happy
Noli Kay
SKIS NEED A HOME
I have skis in search of a new home. Parabolics,
poles, women's size 9 boots, a double ski bag and
two single ski bags. While there's a boat load of
money is all this and I'd love to get some of it
back, reality is I'm downsizing and these puppies
need a new home. Do we suppose there'd be any
interest among your members? :-)
Name: Barbara Layton
Phone: 317-844-6568
Email: [email protected]
SUN VALLEY SPORTS HAS THE
LATEST IN SKIS & ACCESSORIES
And Summer Outdoors, too
Sun Valley Sports • 8418 Castleton Corner Dr
Indianapolis, IN 46250 • (317) 577-5500
Monday - Friday 11 am – 8 pm
Saturday 10 am-8 pm, Sunday noon – 5 pm
(ask for the ISC member discount on ski stuff)
FROM LISA
Office:
Fax:
Tom:
Priscilla:
317.259.6000
317.524.7595
317.432.9322
317.289.7776
check your closets, check the bookcases, asking all members to contact me if they have a
finance committee manual so I can collect
and update the pages"
[email protected]
UPDATE ON PRISCILLA
After weeks in the Burn unit at Eskenazi Hospital, Priscilla Johnson has returned home to continue
her recovery from burns received in a cooking accident. In lieu of sending flowers and food, Tom
suggests a donation to one of the organizations they are associated with. Tom writes:
“Here is the mailing information for donating To The Central Indiana Land Trust. The Lamb/
Johnson family became involved with CILTI several years ago in an effort to preserve some of the
forests that they owned near Lamb Lake Estates in Trafalgar, 45 minutes South of downtown
Indy. This nature preserve, which will contain close to 700 wooded acres when completed in September, will be called Glacier’s End. This is where the glaciers stopped and melted, thousands of
years ago, forming the deep ravines and hills that Southern Johnson County and Brown County are
known for. The preserves have been purchased through contributions from Trusts, Individuals,
Heritage (Environmental) Trust License plates, The Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society, Johnson
County Foundation, a “bargain sale” by the owners, and a final push by State of Indiana Bicentennial
Fund. Funding is still needed to put in trails and upgrade existing trails.
Priscilla serves on the Board of Directors of this trust and has been instrumental in pushing this
effort over the past five years. A donation to CILTI would honor Priscilla, help get the trails built,
and aid a charity that benefits folks throughout Central Indiana .
Kindest Personal Regards, Tom Johnson (TJ)”
Central Indiana Land Trust, 1550 N Delaware, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Or contact Tom ([email protected]) or Mel ([email protected]) for a donation form
July-August BIRTHDAYS
Theresa Kulczak
Michael Karsas
James Robinson
Cindy Baker
Karl
Gossweiler
Roger Reeves
Deborah Reeves
Paul
Segasser
Bryan Smith
Kay
Harvey
Martha Heinrich
Carol Luckiewicz
Eileen Ridgway
7/2
7/4
7/4
7/7
7/9
7/14
7/15
7/16
7/16
7/20
7/21
7/21
7/21
Susan Neves
Dewayne Burkhart
Gina Hohenstatt
Mike Rees
Krista Borghese
Loren Rasmussen
Sam
Robertson
Jerry Baker
Deborah Bronnenberg
Nancy Shelbourne
Amanda Kabat
Corinne Kabat
Mark Payton
7/23
7/25
7/25
7/25
7/27
7/27
7/27
7/28
7/28
7/29
7/30
7/31
8/6
Malcolm Smith
Bob
Todd
Clinton Cavett
George Andrews
Jerry Neff
Craig Forestal
Warren Schmid
Priscilla Johnson
Joe
Deppen
Mary Auzins
Jo
Van Zant
Tim
Hohenstatt
Tom
Johnson
8/6
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8/11
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8/14
8/14
8/15
8/20
8/21
8/24
8/26
8/30
View from the SkySkyby Mel Crichton, Boomer editor
Yay! It’s summer! The OTHER great season! Let’s face it, spring is just preparation for summer. It’s too cold much of the time for water sports and too
wet… and Spring is even worse here in Montana, where it’s officially known as
“Mud Season”. And Fall? Yes, it’s pretty, but it’s really just a lead-in to WINTER, the best season of all (This IS a SKI club newsletter)
Like winter, summer brings an influx of “furreners” (i.e. visitors) to Big Sky.
Like the feller in this photo…. Folks who know Bryan will think there’s something odd about the photo, but Bry really does like dogs…. He just can’t live
with ‘em. And the dogs don’t like it, either.
We’ve already had our big July 4th celebration; over 5000 locals and area visitors packed the Town Center park to hear a free concert by a great R&B band,
followed by a fantastic fireworks display, especially for a town this size. Of
course, our friends all hustled to our house after the concert to watch the sky
show from our deck…… aka party central. We chased the last of them out well
after midnight.
Hiking has been good this summer…. Lots of springtime wild flowers (lupine, paintbrush, coneflower) will be replaced soon by the summer flowers, starting at the lower elevations and working up into the mountains. Of
course, with spring and then summer we have to watch out for four-legged predators. A grizzly sow and her
cub have been reported near here, but I am sure that the red dog in the photo will protect us. When the
mooses (meese?) visited last winter she hid in her crate until morning.
See you at the picnic…..
Mel
SKI VISITS TO WESTERN NORTH AMERICA BOUNCE BACK
The ‘El Niño weather system is being credited with a 50% jump in skier visits over the previous exceptionally poor season. The snowpack figures were back up to ‘average’ after the four drought years and according to data from the
National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) in the US visits to ski areas in the southwest region (California, Nevada and
Arizona) increased by 53.1 percent over the previous year, reaching a total of 7.38 million. Whilst the Pacific Northwest
saw a huge 141.5-percent growth to 4.83 million visits. Utah posted their nest stats for a decade. Nationwide however
total visits reached 53,925,300, only a 0.6 percent increase over the previous year as this past season it was a bad winter for New England so numbers dropped there by nearly a third. From the National Ski Club Newsletter
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get the things you need before your next great ski
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Colored Threads, our vendor, is located in The
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You may pick up your orders from Laurie RiceSalemi to save shipping costs and time.
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Miss your 2016 Member Directory?
Nobody complained that they did not receive a
ski club directory this year. Creating it is a
crummy job, so I didn’t remind anybody….
But… The board has decided to have the Directory sent out in October instead of the Spring. In
the Spring we will send out by email a list of all
those who joined later than October.
So…. If anybody fluent in word processing would
like to be responsible for the 2016 Directory,
please let me or Marilyn Rader know….. Mel
Crichton [email protected]
p.s… If you are fluent in word processing and
Microsoft Publisher, I would not mind passing
the baton as Schussboomer editor…. I have had
this job for 11 years and I am getting crotchety.
Questions? John Oberlies
[email protected]
President Ann’s Corner
Welcome to summer! The ski club board has been busy making plans for
ongoing summer activities and an exciting 2017 ski season! See the newlyarranged schedule of trips elsewhere in the Boomer.
The first weekend in June, I represented our club at the Ohio Valley Ski
Council Summit in Dayton. The OVSC is made up of seventeen Midwestern
clubs who share information and resources, and can help each other fill trips
if needed. The workshops presented topics on trip leader training, recruitment of new members, packing simply, fitness and health, and audit and
website ideas. I'll share some of this information next time because I have a
more important message for this month.
Since our club has been successfully meeting members needs and expectations for so long, I didn't discover a "little secret" until I joined the board a year ago. Did you know that there's a core
group of people who are doing most of the work for the club, and some who do more than one
job? And some who have had the same job for years and would like to hand it off? I have probably been casually asked to volunteer before, but I didn't get that I was really needed. The "little secret" is that I was! And another secret I discovered in the process is that it has been an interesting
challenge and a real blast! The folks involved are thoughtful, caring, committed and downright fun
to work with!
So...I am requesting each one of you to think seriously about getting more involved, maybe starting with a committee position. Some of you may have offered before but didn't hear anything
back. Here's your second chance to step up. Make sure I get your name and area of interest, and
I will get back to you. I guarantee it will expand your ski club experience in a positive way!
Ann Daniel, President
Postmaster: If Undeliverable Please Return to:
Marilyn Rader
7834 Valley Stream Dr
Indianapolis IN 46237-8537
Next meeting - September 18 Picnic - Indpls Sailing Club
see photos at http://indyskiclub.org/abouttheboard.asp
Indianapolis Ski Club Officers 2015-2016
President: Ann Daniel 877-2131
Pres -elect: Randy Ridgway 765-650-6168
Secretary: Ray Battey 842-0831
Treasurer: Jackie Sundboom 413-3358
VP Trips: : Jean Ballinger 696-2120
VP-elect trips: Lisa Sindelar 317-709-5231
VP Member Services: Marilyn Rader 888-7168
Website
www.indyskiclub.org
Articles for Sept issue to
Mel Crichton [email protected]
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