2009 – D T Price - Downhill Only Ski Club
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2009 – D T Price - Downhill Only Ski Club
Downhill only Club Journal 2009 CMH HELI-SKIING The largest choice of Heli-Skiing terrain in the world • Twelve areas in Western Canada • Expert guiding • Five star remote lodges • Bugaboos • Cariboos • Monashees • Bobbie Burns • Revelstoke • Valemount • Gothics • Galena • Adamants • McBride • Kootenay • Silver Tip Powder Skiing in North America David & Tessa Brooksbank 61 Doneraile Street London SW6 6EW England Tel: 020 7736 8191 Fax: 020 7384 2592 Email: [email protected] DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 CONTENTS www.downhillonly.com 3 4 7 Editorial Wengen Mail – Letters to the Hon Editor Disconnected Jottings Wengen Season 2008/2009 8 Wengen Season 11 Presidents Report 13 Coggins & Eagles Report 16 Race Results Sheridan Killwick & Paul Zvegintzov Max Davies Bob Eastwood Racing 21 Racing & Training Report 25 British Schoolgirls Championships 29 British Schoolboys Races 33 2nd Inter-Club Championships Ingie Christophersen Sarah Robinson Richard Berry and Sam Shnaps Liz Moore Ski Touring 37 Spring Tour 2008 Jane McCormick General 41 Club Walking Week 2008 43 Wengen Faces 45 A Fitting Farewell Michael Oliver Norman Freund Club News: 46 Club Dates 2009/10 47 Race Programme 2009/10 47 Spring Tour Programme 2010 49 Obituaries 52 D.H.O Map 56 Wengen Curling Club Fred A. MacKenzie 61 Membership List The photographs in this Journal have been supplied by: Max Davies, Liz Moore, Michael Oliver, PhotoZoom, David Price, Roger Scoones, Carol West and others. Important Notice: Contributions to the 2010 Journal should be sent by June 1st 2010 to: The Hon. Editor, D.H.O Journal, ‘Overland’, 11 The Dairyground, SHUTFORD, Oxon, OX15 6PN tel: 01295-780335; 07775-796576; email: [email protected] It would be appreciated if photographs could be sent as original copies or on a CD and NOT by email. Advertising: Norman Freund, Barnwell, High Street South, Tiffield, Northants NN12 8AB tel/fax: 01327 353166, e-mail: [email protected] Design: Paul Eustice Design, tel: 01209 716151; fax: 01209 716769; e-mail: [email protected] LIST OF ADVERTISERS i/f 2 10 12 15 19 20 23 23 24 27 28 30 31 32 35 35 35 35 36 40 42 42 44 44 44 54 54 54 54 56 56 58 59 60 60 60 71 71 72 i/b b/c CMH Heli-Skiing Jungfraubahnen Solent Sunbeam Genorel Soft Drinks Ski Courses D.H.O Merchandise Ski-Mojo Brechin Management Ltd. History of Ski Jumping Snoworks Ski Courses U.S. Apartment Hotel Caprice Hotel Restaurant Hirschen Jungfrau Taxi Sunstar Hotel Wengen Apotheke P. Voss Apartment Ravenglass Railway Ullswater Steamers Swiss Ski & Snowboard School Männlichen Cablecar Falken Hotel Da Sina - Sina’s Pub D.H.O Flat Raiffeisen Bank Cotswold Glazing Flindall Apartment Moore Movies Molitor Sport Privat Ski School Rocks Bar Wengen Central Sport Wengen Apartment Snoworks/BASI Ski Instruction Alpia Sport Eiger Apartment Restaurant Allmend Hotel Jungfraublick Swiss Made Shop Imperial Hotel D&R Group Snowcard 1 Downhill only Journal 2009 Tuesday December 30th 2008 will, in future years, be remembered as one of the most important dates in the history of the Downhill Only Club, perhaps ranking only just below February 7th 1925. On December 30th the Club President, on behalf of all the members, signed the document which purchased from the Fuchs family, the freehold of a substantial part of the ground floor of the old Eiger Hotel. That evening, the D.H.O Club Room held it’s first social event attended by upwards of 80 people. We were proud to be there! You will all agree the Eiger is the most prominent building visitors to Wengen see on their arrival at the railway station. To purchase and secure a permanent home for the club was a ‘once in lifetime’ opportunity. There was, in the current vernacular, “no way” the purchase was not going to be made since subsequent generations would never have forgiven us. Whilst recognising the generosity of the members who made the purchase possible, it is now time for all of us to dig deep and pay off the bank loan by whatever means are required. As with the purchase of the Breithorn apartment, fund-raising events will no doubt be held in the immediate future. A modest increase in annual subscriptions is entirely justified in view of the marvellous facility the club now has. You will have recently received the new leaflet and letter from the President and we trust all members will contribute whatever they can. A dinner party to celebrate the clubs 85th anniversary will be held on Thursday February 4th during Macmillan week. Although the venue (a village hotel) is yet to be confirmed, it would be appreciated if those interested in attending would complete the tear off slip on page 5 and return it to the Hon Secretary. Lastly, this coming season a new chairlift from the Arvengarten to the top of Salzegg will replace one of the last ‘T-Bar’ lifts in the Scheidegg area. Whilst many will welcome the change, the great advantage of T-Bar’s were that having elbowed-out any competition, one had plenty of time en-route, to chat up the attractive lady one had seen ahead in the lift queue. They also provided a perfectly justifiable excuse to put ones arm around the said person if the going got steep! Not only has the superior uphill speed of a chair-lift dramatically reduced the ‘ACUT’ quotient (Available Chat-Up Time), on a six-person chair she can shuffle out of arms reach! An absolutely dreadful state of affairs! It is surely not too much to ask the new Director of the Jungfraubahn to ensure the Tschuggen T-bar is left to provide an opportunity for old-fashioned romance down in the sunlit wooded glades! Good skiing – and enjoy the Club Room. David Price 3 Downhill only Journal 2009 Letters to the Hon. Editor From Mr Martin Garthwaite. Dear Mr Price, We paid our annual visit to Wengen at the beginning of April and were delighted to find the new D.H.O club house on the ground floor of the old Eiger Hotel. Central, large and welcoming with its bar and kitchen inherited from the old Eiger; a real boon to all members. What a scoop – which will I hope encourage more of the young, to take advantage of the facility. Yours sincerely, La Cour Normande, St.Martin, Jersey, Channel Islands From Mr Simon Wainman. Dear David, Members may wish to be informed that Flybe fly from Southampton at 0645 each Saturday during the ski season arriving Bern at 0935 local time. Having arranged a taxi direct to Lauterbrunnen (Chf 40 per person), unpacked in our chalet, collected skis from Central Sport, bought ski passes, we were in the Männlichen lift at 1230 on our way to the slopes We thus got an extra half days skiing. The return flight left Bern at 1020 which meant an 0715 train from Wengen. Cost about £115 for the return trip including all taxes. A very comfortable and friendly service on a small plane. which we can recommend to members. Yours sincerely, Simon Wainman. 4 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 ✂ 85th Anniversary Dinner A dinner to celebrate the clubs’ 85th Anniversary will be held on Thursday February 4th 2010. The venue, menu and ticket cost is yet to be confirmed but will be similar to past events of this type. Those members who wish to attend and who already know they will be in Wengen at that time should complete the form below and return it the the Hon Secretary no later than December 1st 2009. This will greatly assist the club calculate the numbers likely to attend. Name: Address: Post code: Telephone no: Number of tickets required: To be returned to: Mrs S Hoyle, Hon Secretary, D.H.O, 4 The Chimes, Delamere Park, Cuddington, Cheshire CW8 2XA 5 Downhill only Journal 2009 More from the Tour A selection of additional images provided by the 2009 Ski Touring Team. For more, see the article on page 37. 6 Downhill only Journal 2009 Disconnected Jottings D.H.O Journals Snow-Camp Youth Charity The club is currently searching for unbound copies of the D.H.O Journal. The intention is to make a digital copy of each page so, that the entire run can be contained on one or more CD’s complete with index. The issues required are: 1936 to 1938, i.e the rarest of all and 1946 – 1969. Please contact the Hon Editor with details of copies you are prepared to loan. Snow Camp is a small charity established in 2003 to assist innercity children experience snow-sports. The Skiers Trust of Great Britain has been helping them financially but has reached the limit of their support and are supporting Snow-Camps appeal for funds. If you would like to receive further information on the Snow-Camp project please contact their Director, Mr D Charlish, at Snow-Camp, 89b Goldstone Villas, Hove, East Sussex, BN3 3RW. Old Photographs 01273-241383, or www.snow-camp.co.uk The D.H.O archive is always pleased to receive photographs which illustrate skiing in Wengen and early years of the D.H.O. Items from old family albums can be copied and returned. Wherever possible please ensure that the names of those depicted, and the year in which the image was taken are stated on the back of the print. Deserted Slopes - Compulsory Day Off Between Christmas and New Year extremely high winds of circa 150 mph battered Kleine Scheidegg causing the temporary suspension of WAB services beyond Allmend. On walking past the chairlift, the wood path adjacent to the railway appeared closed and, in my infinite un-wisdom, I took the right hand path, i.e up the ‘Rat Run’ to it’s junction with the Lauberhorn Race Course. Sarah and I then walked (perhaps ‘staggered ‘ is the more correct description) ‘diretissima’ up the left side of the absolutely deserted ski slope, rejoining the footpath immediately to the right of the tunnel through which the racers ski under the railway on race-day. Having seen no other people for what seemed like hours, we eventually arrived at the Wengernalp Hotel. After an excellent lunch and lots of drinks we then sauntered down the proper foot-path back to Wengen. The moral of this story could be that one should not let a mere ‘Steering Wheel Attendant’ navigate. However, I recall that on one quite serious rally many years ago, travelling at 60 – odd mph in the dark hours around 2 in the morning through Epynt Forest in Wales, my navigator said “100 yards/90 left”. I did as instructed and we went through a hedge into a field !! The folowing day, a large group of members entrained to Lauterbrunnen and walked up to the Isenfluh restaurant for lunch. On the return walk from Isenfluh. 7 Downhill only Journal 2009 Winter Season Report 2008/09 Part 1: GOING... GOING... GONE! Paul Zvegintsov Yes, honestly! We really have retired from the job! Please note that the word “retire” refers to the skiing job and not to earning an honest crust in the real world, which sadly requires a lot more years of hard labour! Of course, hopefully, we will soon be back again in Wengen (on holiday!). We decided in 2000 that when I was 55 to 60, I would like to hand over the job to someone else, however I was flexible and, lacking a replacement candidate in 2005, I seemed to linger on to 63! The D.H.O. part of my chequered career started in about 1970 when Piers Benson-Browning asked me to rep for a couple of weeks. I managed to rep most years after that until 1989, having just lost my winter job as an instructor in Aviemore the sad news of Piers’ death prompted my mother-in-law to volunteer me as his replacement. Subsequently, I have been lucky enough to be kept on by the club for 18 years as secretary and then manager. I cannot think of a life more suited for Maree and I. Firstly, because we both love Wengen and have always enjoyed the outdoors and skiing. Secondly because our marine business and holiday cottages do not operate in the winter months. Thirdly, the weather in winter in the West Hghlands leaves a lot to be desired! Through the many years we have made literally hundreds of friends, both within the club and with the people of Wengen. We have loved the little flat which we cheekily always refer to as “our flat” having been instrumental in its design and equipping. We have had fantastic support from all the Presidents their Committees and, of course, you the members. Hopefully, we have not made too many blunders. Through the job, we have been able to continue to bring up our two boys in an outdoor environment and both have become very accomplished skiers. Our dog Linnhe loves the snow and dragging the sledge. So much so that she has become a little ‘huski’ - (it must be too much barking!). 8 Since taking over , I have had three ambitions for the D.H.O. Firstly to get a club house and I started to recommend places in 1991. Secondly, to get a flat for the secretary and, Thirdly, to persuade the WAB to lay on a 4pm train daily from Grund to Wengen with out changing and with Kaffee and Kuchen served en route! I suppose that two out of three is not bad but there is still time for the last one! This last season has once again seen really good snow and as usual even better after we left! Wengen continues to improve its lift and snow cannon system so that if in future the snows should be a scarce, the D.H.O can be assured of good sport. I had some really good days skiing this year and enjoyed not having to be in charge all the time. Sheridan quickly took on the day-to-day running of the skiing and of course the onerous task of developing the club house. Our final weeks were delightfully filled with endless invitations and of course the fantastic dinner in the Baren. We were so touched by our send off and the generous donations. The cuckoo clock is in our kitchen to remind us of Wengen and the donations, which you kindly gave, have been put towards a wood burning stove so that in the future cold Argyll winters, all we have to do to keep warm is to ......chop and chop and chop wood. If it is very cold we can also light the fire! We hope to see you all some time either in Wengen or in Argyll and no doubt we will be back in Wengen very soon. Aufwiedersehen ! Paul Downhill only Journal 2009 Part 2: Sheridan Killwick I set off from London at 4.30am on Monday 15 December to drive to Wengen, my car fully loaded with all the things I thought I would need for the winter season. Can you imagine my thoughts during my journey to Switzerland? I was about to start the daunting task of taking over from Paul who had been Wengen Manager/Secretary for 17 years. The drive went smoothly; I arrived in Lauterbrunnen at 7pm and the friendly WAB staff helped me on the train with my luggage. A complete stranger (who turned out to be a waitress at the Eiger restaurant), helped me carry luggage to the flat. Thank you Barbara - a true welcome to Wengen. I had always had fond memories of the friendliness of people there and nothing has changed. There was lots of snow over Christmas; it snowed on New Years Eve and the sky on New Year’s Day was a brilliant blue. Everything looked set for an excellent winter, then the wind came and blew all the snow from the side of the pistes leaving it rather bare and ugly for the Lauberhorn race. Due to the excellent snow cannons the pistes remained in very good condition throughout January and it snowed again and again in February. It was a very exciting to be starting my new role just as the D.H.O was in the process of purchasing its very own club room. Many will have fond memories of the “Hut” which has been the ‘temporary home’ since the late 1970’s. After the inaugural evening we used the “Hut” for several weeks of the season and moved permanently to the new club premises in mid-January. Susie Davies led a House committee to get the room up and running. Paul, Max, other members and myself helped paint the kitchen, put up memorabilia, fix the glass washer, move the furniture, make an office for the Wengen Manager, purchase a fridge and various other jobs. Many members very generously donated items for the new club room. There was an immediate increase on the number of members coming to office hours and drinks parties. We could never have managed 85 people in the “Hut”. Volunteers opened the club room during the day for a few hours, internet access was set up for member day time use, tea and coffee machines were donated, and a library established. The system of members bringing bottles remained as before but volunteers were needed to run the bar and clear the glasses. (You will be pleased to know we have dispensed with the plastic ones). New visitors to the new club room will be particularly impressed with all the beautiful cups on display in the glass cabinets. The D.H.O club races went ahead as usual staring with the Heinz cup pairs race during the New Year holidays and Paul’s cryptic poetic clues were as good as ever. The atmosphere during the Lauberhorn race weekend was brilliant and it was tremendous fun watching both the downhill and the slalom events. The following weekend our own 25 strong team competed in the Inferno. I remember it well back in 1994 when I raced for the D.H.O in the Inferno there were only six of us. My heart was in my mouth at the start and all I could remember the whole way down was my brother Edward’s words of advice “what ever you do don’t fall” well I made it to the end without falling and even qualified for a bronze medal. D.H.O racing in Macmillan Cup week started with the Lucy Dicker night slalom with some 40 entrants and the same for the Macmillan. After prize giving on Thursday evening, almost one hundred people attended Paul and Maree’s farewell party at the Bären. It was a night to remember and a great way to thank them for their hard work over 17 years. In March, Liz Moore co-ordinated our five teams for the Amateur Inter-club races held in Mürren and hosted by the Kandahar. Please read Liz’ article for a detailed summary. The D.H.O will host this race in Wengen in 2011 so please order your cat suit now!! On most days during the season we were able to offer members two ski groups and this seem to work well. In some weeks we had so many members that we could have done with two D.H.O reps assisting the Wengen Manager not just one. It was great to see so many members out skiing in Wengen and I hope to see more of you next season. The first Presidents party to be held in the new club room was a huge success with some 90 people there. Lastly, my special thanks go to Paul and Maree for making me welcome and to Max and Eden for their kind hospitality for putting me up for the first half of the season. Sheridan 9 Downhill only Journal 2009 10 Downhill only Journal 2009 President’s Report Max Davies This was a memorable season with two important events in the history of our Club. Firstly there was the purchase and move to our new Club premises in the former Eiger Hotel, secondly there was the appointment and changeover of the new Wengen Manager. As a perfect background to these major changes, it was a really excellent skiing season with brilliant snow conditions until well after Easter. The new Club premises in the old Eiger Hotel are as good as you can get. This purchase truly establishes the D.H.O in Wengen for future generations and the feedback from all those who have used it is very positive. We can at last put all our memorabilia and cups on show, and the number already in the display cabinets is amazing. One of these cabinets was donated by one of our members and is very special. But as I said in last year’s report, we now have to pay for it as it has been bought with borrowed money. The cost was CHF820.000 and we have borrowed CHF400,000 from the local Raiffeisen Bank (currently @ 3 ½ %); the D.H.O put in CHF100,000 from its funds. The rest was borrowed from various members interest free for 3 years. The help and support of the Fuchs family in getting permission to purchase these premises was invaluable, and we hope we will continue to see them in Wengen and in our Club for years to come. Ours is a very busy Club. Coggins and Eagles run by Bob Eastwood had more people this year than ever before, which is a credit to Bob and to the D.H.O. The Racing and Training report is worth reading as they too had a busy and a most successful year. Their work, it is worth remembering, goes on all the year round. The Schoolboys and Schoolgirls again had large numbers, and here again the D.H.O involvement is most impressive. I went to Meiringen for a couple of days to see the British Schoolboys and to help award the prizes and saw that this is an impressive and well-supported event to which many of our UK schools send teams. Also this season, Liz Moore organised the International School Boys races in Wengen and also put together four teams for the Kandahar inter-club races held in Murren, whose success you can read about in their report. In addition to all this we ran our own club races most weeks in Wengen. By the time you read this you will have received my letter regarding raising funds. Please do help if you can; and if you haven’t been to Wengen recently do come and enjoy the new facility. A meeting place such as this is truly unique in any ski resort. I must not forget to mention also the touring department of the D.H.O. There was the usual club touring week run by John Rigby, but day touring unfortunately did not take place this year due to strong winds high up – the next week of course was perfect! On the subject of touring, I was saddened to hear that Johnny Webster, a member since 1953, died in April this year. Johnny was a great off-piste skier and tourer who had been coming to Wengen for many years with his wife, Ann. Many of us will recall great days out with him and other D.H.O members. His cheery personality will be greatly missed and our condolences go to his family. Until the middle of February Sheridan Killwick and Paul Zvegintzov shared the position of Wengen Manager, and Paul left after MacMillan Cup Week. A lot of tributes have been paid to Paul and Maree, but I would like here also to thank them for doing as excellent job over the past 17 years or so. They have both become good friends to many of us; we wish them all the best, and hope to see them in Wengen on the snow for many years to come. Sheridan then moved into the Breithorn and into her position as sole Wengen Manager. It is always difficult to take over from someone who has been there so long, but she knows both the area and the D.H.O very well and did a sterling job in her first few months. We wish her every success and I’m sure she will have the support of all our club members next season. Lastly, The D.H.O goes from strength to strength and is well worth your support. I hope you will continue to give it, even if you are unable to visit Wengen for a few seasons. Support to us is also support to British skiing. Have a great summer and I hope to see you on the slopes next season. This was a good season for skiing, the only blight being the high winds which hit the area on many occasions. There was one time in mid-December when winds at Scheidegg were registered at over 250 kph. This, of course, blew all the snow off the exposed areas, but the pistes were fine and remained so throughout the season. Before and after Easter there were wonderful spring snow conditions with lots of sunshine. I even skied from the top of the Schilthorn to Lauterbrunnen on 30th March – well most of the way! 11 Downhill only Journal 2009 12 Downhill only Journal 2009 Coggins Report Bob Eastwood and Rachel Anderton Well what a fantastic season! We always had plenty of snow and, apart from a few days watching it blow away, some lovely weather. We also had a record number of Coggins and Eagles! The Coggins “stats” are 109 kids came for a total of 377 days which is a record during the past 12 seasons. They were looked after by a regular team of Bob, Rachel and Grace “I used to be a Coggin” McCutchen and various other Swiss Ski School leaders. We had our last prize giving in the old hut before our new more glamorous events in the new “hut”. Every picture tells a story they say and this year we have many very good photos so this year we would like to use our journal space to share a few of them with you and show you all the fun we had.Want to join the show? Please, please, try to remember to tell us you when are coming and how many days you are likely to ski with Coggins. It makes it so much easier to get the right leaders to ensure an exciting weeks skiing. The first bookings have already been made for next half term and booking is now almost essential. between 17.00 and 18.00 GMT. Make sure of your place for the next season and we’ll do the rest to give the Coggins a fantastic holiday they’ll remember forever. We must thank Ercole Famiglietti of Wengen Ski School for managing to accommodate all our requests for instructors and for lending us race courses and equipment Thanks also to all the parents who gave their time to help with races and of course to the people of Wengen who make it such a great place to ski. Lastly, we always plead with members to spread the word about Coggins, it really is unique, so that we can continue to train enthusiastic, fast and safe young skiers. See you on the snow!! If you are between 7 and 13 and have not been a Coggin yet come and join us. Learn to ski fast, have fun and be safe on the most beautiful mountains in the world (and learn their names as well). We welcome all 7 to 13 year olds who ski to “racing snowplough” standard and enjoy skiing with other English speaking kids. We are definitely not ski school but you will learn an awful lot about skiing faster and safer. It’s easy, just drop an email to: [email protected]. Or call Bob on 01524 78 11 54. During the winter call the hut 13 Downhill only Journal 2009 Bob Eastwood and Coggins group at Easter Ollie Walduck Early prize giving in February Nano Coggin, Jenny Alken Half term prizes 14 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 Coggins, Eagles & Adult Courses COGGINS & EAGLES can COGGINS Fast skiing for 7-13 year-olds who ers from ski red Runs confidently. Professional lead school! ski not ly the Swiss Ski School---but definite PLEASE BOOK WELL IN ADVANCE! able EAGLES For 13yrs.+; adventurous and soci dent fi con skiing with a qualified leader for good, ibly skiers. Will include off-piste skiing and poss day, all Ski . park excursions into the terrain optional evening partying. BOOKING ESSENTIAL! Dates for Coggins and Eagles: 20th December to 1st January 2010 14th February to 19th February 4th April to 12th April Cost: COGGINS: CHF70 per day plus lunch money EAGLES: CHF320 for up to 6 consecutive days ADULT DEVELOPME NT COURSES (also known as Cogg ins for Grownups) A return of the popu lar adult courses to improve your technique. Good intermediate skiers skiing with Bob Eastwood; nice lunch stops. Th ere are many other weeks w hen Bob could run so mething similar---minimum 6 people per group. PLEASE BOOK WEL L IN ADVANCE! Dates for Adult Dev elopment Courses: 31st January to 2nd February 2010 3rd February to 5th Fe bruary Cost: CHF180 for three da ys book Please contact Bob as soon as possible to rse. places for any Coggins, Eagles or Adult cou Pre-season: Tel: 07811 414269 or e-mail: [email protected] 5 or Or in season: Call DHO Office +41 33 855 137 e-mail: [email protected] 15 Downhill only Journal 2009 Race Results 2008/09 D.H.O. ANDY CAPP RACE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS ANDY CAPP 12 February 13.20 Whole Area Powder, poor visability and snowing TEAMS Nicholas Taylor and Roger Scoones Peter and Phillippa Diggle Anne and Rebecca Diggle Ruth and Dean Parker Alastair Drew and Alan Jordan Robert Harvey and Carol West All teams started on foot at the Grindlewaldblick restaurant and then skied to Wengen. They had two tasks to complete on the way, firstly, to ascertain the price of Café Fertig in Mary’s; and secondly, to purchase a doughnut from the bakery and bring it back intact to the finish at Brandegg. OVERALL RESULTS 1 Nicholas Taylor and Roger Scoones One hour 20 mintues 2 Robert Harvey and Carol West One hour 23 minutes 3 Anne and Rebecca Diggle One hour 24 minutes 4 Ruth and Dean Parker One hour 25 mintues 5 Alastair Drew and Alan Jordan One hour 50 minutes 6 Peter and Phillippa Diggle Two hours 40 minutes COVA CUP RACE RACE COVA CUP RACE COURSE Treasure hunt DATE 8 April 2009 TIME 09.00 or 13.30 PISTE All the mountain CONDITIONS Soft and warm Overall winners 1 Team The Graceless Residence 2 Team White Boys 3 Team Fear Hounds 4 Team Ski Your Ass off 5 Team The Wells of Hope Spring Eternal 6 Team Flying Eagles 7 Team Caprice 8 Team Ice Patrol 9 Team Ski Warriors 10 Team The Daver II 11 Team Coggins Elite 12 Team Awesome Quakers 13 Team Tic Tac’s 14 Team Super Team Dragons 15 Team Jenkins O’Brien 16 Team Wataguaners Best poems 1 Team The Wells of Holy Spring Eternal 2 Team Caprice 3 Team Ice Patrol 4 Team Flying Eagles 5 Team Ski Warriors LUCY DICKER RACE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS LUCY DICKER 03 February 18.00 Figeller Good hard packed 42 entrants for the dual slalom knock out race RESULTS 1st Leo Flindall 2nd Jonathan Latimer 3rd Georgina Perrott More Spring Tour powder 16 Downhill only Journal 2009 ODLING RACE RACE COURSE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS ODLING RACE Slalom 2 April 10.30 Lauberhorn Soft, poor light and windy COGGINS 1 Dougal Forsyth 2 Louis Stannah 3 Barney Stannah 4 Rosie Forsyth 5 Mali Gravell 6 Hugo Young 7 Xenia Gravell 8 Willa Gravell 9 Will Younger 10 Felix Tritton 11 Lulu Tritton 12 Emily Dodd-Noble 13 Theo Tritton 14 Freddie Younger 42.00 42.56 42.94 43.53 43.78 43.97 47.35 48.28 49.59 49.64 51.75 53.43 53.56 54.19 KURVEREIN CRYSTAL RACE RACE COURSE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 KURVEREIN CRYSTAL RACE Bumps to Marys 5 March 13.30 Bumps Deep snow and snowing all day Helen Whittet and John Pailthorpe 9mins 53.19 + handicap 7 seconds 10.00.19 Tony Davis and Rachel Corder 10mins 57.14 + handicap 2 seconds 10.55.14 Mike Austin and Lizzie Davis 11mins 31.09 – handicap 7 seconds 11.24.09 Richard Hackett and David Watts 7mins 14.55 + handicap 3 seconds 7.17.55 Jeremy Watts and Sheila Burrage 7mins 09.38 +3 seconds handicap 7.12.38 Malcolm Gloster and Sally Ireland 4mins 37.28 + 3 seconds handicap 4.40.28 Brian Pette and Katrina Gosling 16mins 37.15 – 7 seconds handicap 16.30.15 Nick Taylor and Andrew Minden Hall 29mins 04.08 – 10 minutes handicap 19.04.08 MACMILLAN CUP RACE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS Name LeoFlindall Edward Killwick Will Perrott Georgina Perrott Edward Perrott Martin West Jeremy Watts Mary Day Robert Harvey Adam Humphries Vanda Joss Webb Seymour John Pailthorpe Emma Humphryes Simon Wainman Nicholas Davis Anne Freund Lizzie Davis David Verden Anderson Tony Davis Lucy Maskey Guy Clayton James Squier Phil Gepfert Max Davies Olivia Gordon Helen Whittet Rebecca Gallagher Brian Pette Andy Gilchrist Jonothan Benn Godfrey Perrott John Polatch Donald McGilvray Michael Maskey Duncan Lonie Jill Cameron John Blackmore John Edgley Julian Humphryes Alan Norris Deborah Flindall Michael Wheeler MACMILLAN CUP 05 February 12.30 Ex Ladies Downhill race course Good conditions quite fast and no ice. Wind up high did not affect the race. Time 2.07 2.08 2.10 2.20 2.21 2.23 2.27 2.28 2.30 2.40 2.43 2.44 2.45 2.46 2.47 2.48 2.49 2.50 2.51 2.52 2.53 2.54 2.55 2.56 3.02 3.06 3.08 3.10 3.12 3.15 3.18 3.20 3.22 3.26 3.34 3.36 3.46 3.50 3.56 3.57 4.08 4.16 4.56 Awards Mac Millan Novice Big John Jarvis Open Falken Stretcher Half Piste Granny Security Lockhart Fountain Heavenly Bowl Bath Chair Angel Plate Half Ton 17 Downhill only Journal 2009 POLYTECHNIC RACE RACE COURSE DATE TIME PISTE CONDITIONS Coggins 1 George Crane 2 Aime Spence 3 Elizabeth Gay 4 Tristan Jones 5 Freddie Allinson 6 Polly Spence 7 Lucy Spence 8 Sam Percival 9 Lawrence Hopkins 10 Eloise Buchanan 11 Michael Nolan 12 Joe Waind 13 Louis Clayton 14 Hannah Buchanan 15 William Mucklow 16 Kitty Allinson 17 Guy Blacklee 18 Luke Blacklee 19 Zak Hopkins 20 Grace Clayton DNF Jack Pople DNF Alex Percival 18 POLYTECHNIC RACE Giant Slalom 19 February 13.00 Bumps Good soft 34.43 35.17 35.61 35.85 36.00 36.10 36.14 36.16 36.33 36.37 36.83 37.00 37.03 40.02 40.24 41.49 43.67 43.74 47.98 1.04.67 Non coggin racers 1 James Walduck 2 Thomas Walduck 3 Freddie Gay 4 Caroline Gay DNF Oliver Walduck DNF Lucy Walduck Adults 1 Ruth Parker 2 Jason Walduck 3 Harriet Prest 4 Jenny Butler 5 Freddie Hills 6 CB Buchanan 7 Geoffrey Gay 8 Alastair Drew 8 Rupert Allinson 10 Andy Knowles 11 Geraldine Allinson 12 Simon Williamson 13 Mike Hopkins 14 Amanda Walduck 15 David King 16 Richard Prest DNF Harry Dunhill 36.14 36.90 42.87 43.37 31.12 31.36 33.17 34.37 34.40 35.13 36.07 36.13 36.13 36.82 37.17 38.81 38.97 39.62 40.07 41.57 Downhill only Journal 2009 D.H.O MERCHANDISE D.H.O T-Shirts D.H.O Hoodie s D.H.O Hoodies for Trainees D.H.O Hoodies for Coggins D.H.O Hoddies for Eagles All at £25 each, including postage Sizes: Children's age 9-10, 11-12; adults XS S M L XL D.H.O T-shirts £12.50, including postage Sizes: Children's L XL; adult ladies' S M L; adult men's S M L XL D.H.O Ski Tuning and Waxing DVD £10, including postage A range of these items, as well as ties and shirts, are available for sale in the D.H.O Hut in the winter. Hoodies are £20 without postage; T-shirts £10. Order items in the UK from: Mrs. Sarah Hoyle 4 The Chines, Delamere Park, Cuddington, Cheshire CW8 2XA E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 01606 889599 19 Downhill only Journal 2009 20 Downhill only Journal 2009 Racing & Training Report Ingrid Christophersen I am writing this in Dubrovnik Croatia, at the FIS calendar conference, part of my biannual swanning around some beautiful resort, mixing with the high and mighty in international skiing and pretending I am important! I love it. The FIS will never run a conference in Bradford – having now visited Dubrovnik I can see why. However, there is a cloud on the horizon – this time I am selffunded – and 5 star hotels do not come cheap. Our National Federation, SnowsportGB has frittered away large sums of money, owing to incompetence at the highest level, and it is a miracle that it is still operating. Next season sees the Olympics in Vancouver and we are hanging in there by a thread. I shall make a bee-line for the local Lotto shop when I return to the UK. The 2008/09 season was characterised by unusually large amounts of snow. In some resorts it snowed every day for two months and the World Cup circuit was able to operate thanks only to the local army and large numbers of snow-cats. Expensive to say the least. The D.H.O too suffered from this abundance of snow. As the first club to take advantage of the dedicated speed skiing piste in Sella Nevea, (closed, netted runs and fixed time-keeping), five trainees decided to attend. The day before the start of the camp it started to snow, Sella Nevea was buried, as was the electricity supply and very nearly the Porter family who escaped an Eskimo experience owing to some hard digging and lots of luck. The rest of the season ran according to plan and the camps were well attended. We ran a full D.H.O programme – starting with summer training (raining), October, Christmas in Austria followed by the BARSC races, February in Bormio and Easter including the Scottish and British Championships in Meribel . I try hard to make these annual articles about the racing and training sound interesting to the average D.H.O member. Racing and Training IS interesting, it is full of hard work and sweat, a lot of adrenalin and fear overcome by courage (downhill and superg at the British senior championships), lots of fun, occasional heart ache and some triumph and that is as it should be – we are producing excellent skier and equally excellent future citizens. The British Championships in Meribel was the culmination of the year and we all wanted to do well. British Championships; how many athletes – whatever their sport – get to compete in their national Championships? The Juniors, or some of them, were up at 5 every morning and they raced a downhill, a super-g, giant-slalom, slalom, supercombi (which is a speed event, either a downhill or a super-g, followed by a one-run slalom held on the same day) and a parallel. And this before they even tackled the Scottish Championships. The Children had a slightly easier program, trained the first week, and then raced a super-g, giant-slalom and slalom in the British Champs 2009 and a giant-slalom and a slalom in the Scottish. What fun, what adrenalin pumping and thrilling and heart breaking too, it all is. And what memories to cherish. Heaven is an eternal race course, on perfect snow, wearing bib no. 1. 21 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 Racing Arrows Presentation Stefan, Katy, Xavier, Ingrid, Benedict, Michael & Harry Ingrid officiating at the Icelandic Champs April 2009 Racing camps are not all about skiing and racing; we eat, sleep, wax and tune skis and simulate a wee bit of fitness. We rejoice with those who have done well and commiserate with those whose skis came off, or straddled a gate or was disqualified or was just plain unlucky. Ben Porter hit the snow at supersonic speed, taking a giant-slalom gate with him in the process, ended up in Moutiers Hospital and went home with a neck-brace. The moment I saw him on the trolley waiting to be seen by the doctor he said: “I need to wax my skis for tomorrow’s race”. Normal D.H.O behaviour! Meal times are very social, the decibel level exceeds the scale and D.H.O parents who eat with us are tolerant to a degree. It is noisy, it is uncomfortable but it is wonderful; 30 trainees letting off steam, all talking at once and all telling his neighbour that, if it weren’t for that tiny straddle, or that patch of ice, he would have taken his rightful place on the podium. And rightly so! The Children’s championships incorporate a parallel slalom. The D.H.O fielded 5 teams each of 4 athletes – Stefan called them Eiger, Mönch, Jungfrau, Lauberhorn and Männlichen. How unfair that two of our teams met each other in the quarter-finals. But how completely fair that we won the finals, in a nail-biting and noisy and cheering and totally domineering final. It was like the Cup Final, Wimbledon and the Boat Race all rolled into one. The D.H.O rules supreme – for the time being anyhow! 22 We are an alpine racing club, we are hard working and dedicated, but we are also hard playing and, oh what fun it all is. These Championships saw Alain Baxter’s swan song. He has been the best ambassador for British skiing and his final run down the slalom in a kilt, stopping off midway to down a glass of whiskey with all the British Team trainers and then finishing the race and skiing through an arch of skis held aloft by his team mates was a fitting, and quite sentimental, end to such an inspirational career. It is wonderful to think that our older trainees, those who no longer attend the camps, are now sitting ski teaching exams and return to us to rack up their compulsory hours. They ski for their university or go and spend a gap year in the Alps. And above all, they continue to keep in touch, to meet up, to email and to remain good friends. That speaks volumes for our club and our trainees. “It was like the Cup Final, Wimbledon and the Boat Race all rolled into one. The D.H.O rules supreme – for the time being anyhow!” Downhill only Journal 2009 BRECHIN MANAGEMENT LIMITED 6 Brechin Place, London SW7 4QA Tel 020 7370 1256/7/8 Fax No 020 7370 2251 Max Davies and the staff at Brechin Management Limited wish the D.H.O and Wengen an Excellent Season in 2010 THE HISTORY OF SKI JUMPING Tim Ashburner ‘It’s a beautiful volume, and I am very impressed. The pictures are most interesting – several are new to me. I did not know it was possible to find photographs of so many of the early European skiers…And you certainly have a sharp pen – I was laughing out loud several times into the book. Again, thanks for the copy. I am honoured to be mentioned.’ Rune Flaten, Archivist, Foreningen til Ski Idrettens, Fremme, Oslo ‘I can only say: Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic again! It seems to me unbelievable that someone can research so far back about a sport nobody has written much about before. There is so much about skiing and ski jumping that I did not know…Tim you are a champion!’ Karl Molitor, Wengen ‘I might as well be honest with you. I did not think you could produce a book anything like as good. It is excellent.’ Inge Christophersen ‘I believe he is in that long and very great tradition of English and Scottish writers who, beginning with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and continuing with Somerville, Richardson and Arnold Lunn, have left for future generations enduring histories of the beginnings of skiing.’ David Parnell TIM ASHBURNER, 12 REDCLIFFE CLOSE, OLD BROMPTON ROAD, LONDON SW5 9HX Email: [email protected] 23 Downhill only Journal 2009 Ella Hartley GS British Schoolgirls’ Races 2009 Sarah Robinson Flaine seems like an old friend these days, having hosted the Schoolgirls’ Races for many years now and back they were again on 26/27 January. The organisers arrived to find some terrible weather, rain on Friday with few lifts open and concern about the forecast for the following few days. But on Sunday, the first day for most of the girls, the sun came out and everyone had a wonderful time with plenty of fresh snow about for those who wanted to venture further afield, away from the giant slalom and slalom training pistes on the Stade de Slalom. The D.H.O team this year comprised Pamela Johnston, Katy Peace and Phoebe Roth whilst the Bell twins, Hollie & Milla, and their younger sister, Tara, skied for King’s College Taunton. Also there was Ella Hartley, the winner of the D.H.O non registered prize the previous year and now a D.H.O member, skiing for Bryanston, Sophie Kimmerling (Aiglon), Florence & Victoria Bell (King Edward VI Birmingham), Daisy & Violet Miller (Queen Margaret’s York), Samantha Baxter & Lucy Butchart (Vikings) and Lucy Maynard & Harriet Smith (Wycombe Abbey). The first race on Monday, the giant slalom, took place on the fléche course in sunny weather much to the relief of everyone. It is always a popular race to start with as it gives the girls an opportunity to get some miles under their skis before they have to tackle the slalom the following day. There was some terrific skiing with Emily Evans from Rochester Grammar winning ahead of many older girls. Both she and Mary Denning, who was skiing for Surbiton High’s A team, had only returned from the British Children’s Team races in the Czech Republic the night before. Stephanie Espinosa, skiing for Sandown Park, came in second with Emily’s older sister, Charlotte Evans, in third place. Emily was not only the overall winner but also the best in Children 2 (13/14 year olds) with Violet second and Mary Denning in third place. Laetitia Hawkins Hooker (LEH) was first in Children 1 (11/12 year olds) with Florence second and Annabel Wright from Heathfield St Mary’s third. Clementine Wood (St Mary’s Calne) was the best unregistered child (14 and under) and winner of a training week with the D.H.O, and Ingrid Christophersen was on hand to present the prize in person. Ella was the best unregistered junior (15 and above). Surbiton High’s A team was the best British school followed by the Miller twins’ Queen Margaret’s York and Rochester Grammar. Of the other D.H.O girls, Ella was 13th, Katy 17th, Victoria 19th and Daisy 20th. The D.H.O team was disqualified because Katy was the only one of the three to finish. Florence & Victoria Bell’s team from King Edward VI were 15th whilst the other Bells (no relation, very confusing all these Bells!) from Taunton finished 33rd. 25 Downhill only Journal 2009 (Above) Victoria Bell The parallel slalom, always the most fun of the three events, took place on the bottom of the Stade after the finish of the giant slalom. There was plenty of cheering going on from the finish area and those in the finish hut had trouble hearing at times! The young girls from the Club des Sports in Flaine, the organiser of the races, and who had entered a team hors concours in the GS and slalom, took first place in a very close run final with Surbiton High’s A team. The Surbiton girls were thrilled to be dragged up the slope by skidoo, along with their coach Paul Telling, in order to compete in the final! On Tuesday the weather wasn’t as nice but at least there was no snow nor, thank goodness, rain or wind. The slalom was moved back to the Stade because the powers that be decided to build large jumps in the middle of the GS piste. The experienced racers love the Stade but for those who have done precious little racing it is extremely daunting and the whole slope can be seen from the finish area. At one point the weather closed in so you couldn’t see the top from the finish, probably a good thing as far as some of the girls were concerned! This time the tables were turned and Charlotte Evans came in ahead of younger sister, Emily, in second place with Lottie Mayer of Queen’s Chester third. This was a great result, not only for Emily but also for Lottie as she is also in the children category and they both beat many older girls. Emily and Lottie were first and second respectively in the Children 2 category with Rosamund Lees from the Samoens based College Andre Corbet third. Sophie Caldwell (Abbey Gate College) was first in Children 1 with Annabel Wright again featuring, this time in second place, and Charlotte Ashworth (Godstowe) third. Clementine Wood was the best unregistered child while Lucy Lintott from Wellington took the junior title. Rochester Grammar was the best British school. This time it was Daisy who was the best of the DHO girls in 11th place with Pamela 15th, Katy 16th, Victoria 17th and Phoebe 20th. This was a good result for the D.H.O with all three team 26 members in the top 20 and the team finished 5th overall ahead of Queen Margaret’s York in 6th. Emily Evans was the overall combined winner ahead of sister Charlotte and Rachel Wyld from Millfield. BASI (British Association of Snowsport Instructors) was the major sponsor of the races this year and very kindly gave a training course as a prize to each of the first three overall as well as the best unregistered junior, Ella Hartley. Emily was the winner of Children 2 with Lottie Mayer second and Alice MacAulay (Surbiton High) in third place. Sophie Caldwell came in first in Children 1 with the consistent Annabel Wright second and Laetitia Hawkins Hooker third. Annabel was, not surprisingly, the best unregistered racer in Children 1 with Clementine Wood taking the Children 2 prize. Violet, Daisy, Katy and Victoria were 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th overall respectively. Ella was the only other one in the top 20 in 20th place. The team event is always keenly fought and the team spirit is there for all to see. Rochester Grammar came in as the best British based school and the best team overall. A wonderful achievement as the third member of their team was unable to complete so the two remaining girls had to finish both events without mishap. Queen Margaret’s York was second British school and third best team overall while Sheffield High was third school. The DHO did not qualify due to their disqualification in the giant slalom but the Bells from Birmingham were 15th and the Bells from Taunton 24th. As well as the D.H.O, BASI, and Kandahar, the races were sponsored by MPI insurance brokers, Mind The Gap Year, Base Camp Group – who gave many hoodies as prizes, the Ski Club of Great Britain, Snow+Rock – who gave some good prizes, Meritz – who produced the T-shirts for the participants, Filarinskis – who donated vouchers and Atomic. For full results go to www. LadiesSkiClub.org DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 (Main) Violet Miller (Inset 1) Katy Peace GS (Inset 2) Daisy Miller Your Base in the Pacific Northwest VANCOUVER 50 miles SUDDEN VALLEY 90 miles SEATLE 3-bedroomed townhouse condominium in Sudden Valley, Bellingham WA, USA Fireplace, Deck, Fully Equipped Kitchen, Washing Machine, Dryer, TV/Video • • • • • • • • • • Views over Lake Whatcom Sailing on Bay or Lake; boat hire available 18-hole PGA Golf Course on site Swimming Pool, Tennis Court 20 yards (summer only) Base for excursions to Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, San Juan Islands, North Cascade Mountains, Whale Watching Mt. 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The race team had their headquarters in Reuti at the top of the Meiringen cable car in the Hotel Viktoria, this is a truly English preserve where all the locals speak excellent English. British skiing has passed Meiringen by for many years and now they want us to return. This is great news as the Schoolboys Race has been without a home throughout its existence and many cannot understand why. This race has now come into its own and is driven by the schools that want to take part. We have the occasional troubles but the theme is now distinctly entrenched. It is a formula that has evolved because, as organisers, we want to provide what the racers and parents want. The longer we stay in a resort the more difficult it is to retain the same arrangement we made the first year. This can be attributed to one area, the hotels and the local hotel association. Unfortunately Wengen is not a natural race venue for us, the Lauberhorn, although famous for its downhill, does not have a convenient finish area for slalom and giant slalom, but we had to put up with that during the two years we ran races there. Once again attempts to arrange the accommodation in Wengen collapsed. If the club wishes the race to return to Wengen we need a more concentrated effort to bring influence to bear on the hotels and hotel association. The 2009 event was the tenth British Schoolboys Championships and was a celebratory occasion. Whilst particular schools and individuals are named below for their outstanding achievements, all competitors, trainers and supporters should be commended for their focus, dedication and good old fashioned team spirit which served to bring about the best atmosphere the event has ever had. Any attempt to list all the competitors and race results would probably require space enough to cover the school leaguetable in a national broadsheet newspaper. Everyone was most grateful to have Max Davies, President of the D.H.O with us for the races and prize giving. The D.H.O’s support of the race cannot and should not be underestimated. It is only with the forward thinking and (dare I say it) down hill only culture that they are able to provide the infrastructure to create the backbone to what is a fantastic and truly important sporting event in the scholastic calendar year. Also BASI. What incredible educational gifts of support they provided a few lucky winners. Being able to ski is one thing, being able to teach is a whole different story. By sending Rosalind McDonald to the race, BASI added that little extra ‘VaVaVoom’ to the prize giving. No matter what the monetary value of the prizes, George Harris (Reed’s), Rob Cross (Abbey Gate College), Ian Williams (Cowbridge) and Edward Reynolds (Glenalmond) can deal be safe in the knowledge that they know what they’re talking about when it comes to a stem turn and its application. BASI – thank you, long may this tradition continue. 29 Downhill only Journal 2009 Ryan Brown Small family hotel, directly adjacent to ski slope. Only 5 minutes from train station and centre. All rooms with shower/WC, TV. In-house sauna. Winter-Arrangements from CHF 985 7 nights HB, 6 days ski pass Jungfrauregion Well known SPECIALITY RESTAURANT open from 6pm; for lunch on request Peppersteaks, Galgenspiess, Fondue Chinoise, Gourmet menus Every Monday & Thursday Fondue Bourguignonne, Cheese fondue day of rest: tuesday Phone: +41-33 855 15 44 Fax: +41-33 855 30 44 www.hirschen-wengen.ch Email: [email protected] 30 Downhill only Journal 2009 The snow conditions were perfect for the race. There was more than enough and after the first slalom had been set at “stupid o’clock”, the organisers knew we were in for a great few days. Reeds and Millfield, who have produced teams since the first championships in 1999, continued to scream past the Tag Heuer timing device in such a way that you’d think they spent their summers training in South America! Be that as it may, St Paul’s, Bedford Modern and of course the happy bunch from Dulwich did very well this year as in previous championships. Lastly, there is nothing more supportive to any competitor than being applauded, consoled and rejuvenated by team mates, friends and dare I say it – teachers! It is great to see this spirit alive at The British Schoolboys Ski Racing Championships. Long may this tradition continue. The Sunday Times Cup for best British School team was won by Reed’s, with Tonbridge and St Paul’s close behind. The SnOasis Cup for best British based Children’s school team was won by Dulwich, with Gayhurst 2nd and Dulwich’s 2nd team in third place overall. The results are published on the internet please visit www.britski. org/09races.htm for a full list. www.picasaweb.google.com/ britishschoolboys has loads of photographs if you are interested. Thanks, gratitude and a slap on the back are due to many people, especially our friendly Meiringen mountain man Christian, AKA Bergfuhrer Chrigel Willi and his team. Accommodating and willing, they made the course setting and the whole behind-thescenes run smoothly. Once again Christine Flueck greased the cogs and sprinkled her bit of magic at the Tourist Office, allowing 160 or so British kids to turn up in their town and hurl themselves down their slopes. The British Association of Snowsport Instructors were our joint sponsors with SnOasis and Base Camp and receive our grateful thanks. Frank Staddle (who was our TD) presents Ryan Brown with the President’s Cup for winning the Timed Run Slalom. Jungfrau - Taxi CH-3823 Wengen Call: Robert Bischoff +41 79 334 4131 Phone: +41 79 334 41 31 or 33 855 35 90 Fax: +44 33 855 50 60 email: [email protected] www.jungfrautaxi.ch 31 Downhill only Journal 2009 32 Downhill only Journal 2009 (Top row) D.H.O Ladies Team; Vicky Tampin, Alexandra Moore, Grace McCutcheon and Mary Day Amateur Inter-Club Championships Liz Moore Having competed in the first event in 2008 I offered to put together teams for the D.H.O for this year’s competition which was held in Mürren between March 13th and 15th. Remembering that the first competition had some serious racers taking part, I believed if we drew on some of our ex-racers for the Junior Teams and if we ‘oldies’ could stay fit and have a little race training, we might stand a chance of putting the D.H.O on top where it should be! I had enormous fun putting the teams together and it took me back to all those happy years when my children were involved with Racing and Training under the expert guidance of Ingie. Some of the older generation had a couple of day’s race training on the Lauberhorn ace course under the expert (if not amused) guidance of Christian Bühler of the Wengen Ski School. It’s all very well going straight and as fast as you can as in the Macmillan Cup Race but going through gates is a whole new story! It certainly focused the mind and made us all understand a little more about ‘attacking the course’ and ‘inspecting’ before a race! We finally had the following five teams: D.H.O 1: Men (under 45): Leo Flindall, Webb Seymour, Chris Hoyle, Marcus Zumbühl. D.H.O 2: Men (under 45): Karl Ungar, Dan Crouch, Mark Gassmann, Johnny Moore. D.H.O Women (under 45): Vicky Tampin, Grace McCutcheon, Mary Day, Alexandra Moore. D.H.O Women (over 45): Sally Ireland, Maureen Fanshaw, Sheridan Killwick, Liz Moore. D.H.O Men (over 45): Richard Hackett, Richard Gassmann, Martin West and John Pailthorpe. Race Results: D.H.O women under 45: 1st of 4 teams (noting that two of the teams joined together) D.H.O Men 2: 2nd of 9 teams D.H.O Men 1: 7th overall D.H.O Ladies over 45: 2nd of 4 teams D.H.O Men over 45: 6th of 7 teams All the results are available in more detail at www.kandahar. org.uk and you will also note how close the D.H.O 2 under 45 team were to being 1st! All the young in our teams had not raced for several years but some excellent training stood them in good stead. There was also a fiercely competitive ‘Fun Parallel Slalom’ which carried no team points but was nevertheless taken quite seriously! The D.H.O 2 boys were just pipped at the post by the Lauterbrunnen young men for first place! Kandahar once again did a superb job organising and running the races on Winteregg in Mürren. We had marvellous weather, a very friendly competition and a lot of fun. We hope this race will continue in the same manner for many years to come. 33 Downhill only Journal 2009 D.H.O Mens Team; Johnny Moore, Dan Crouch, Mark Grassmann and Karl Ungar In 2010, the SCI Club 18 from Cortona in Italy will host the race over the weekend of March 6th/7th. We hope to take at least 5 teams again if not more! Please contact me, Liz Moore, at [email protected] if you would like to participate and also do a little fun race training the week before the event. At the moment, we are allowed to take as many teams as we like so the more the merrier! Last, I would like to mention how lucky we were to have Marcus Zumühl from Alpia Sports , Richard and Mark Gassmann from the firm Gassmann Haustechnik in Wengen in our teams. When asked if they would like to race for D.H.O all of them replied that, although they would be delighted to, it was a long time (if ever) they had done any racing. Well their excellent results showed they certainly had not forgotten their technique! A particular thanks to them and it was such a privilege to have some locals from the village participating in the race. Once again, many, many thanks to all those who participated and especially those young who came along just for the weekend. I very much look forward to seeing all of you again next year in Italy, perhaps in cat suits but definitely in fur hats for the girls - Italian style!! (see the prize giving photographs) D.H.O Senior Ladies Team (bottom row, right); Liz Moore, Sheridan Killwick and Sally Ireland 34 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 LUXURY SKI CHALET TO LET • • • • Drugs/Medications Alternative Medicine Health Foods Perfumery/Cosmetics op h S t s iali c e p ng i S e e b l h l T e W r u for yo Tel: 033 855 12 46 Fax: 033 855 28 46 [email protected] Racers Retreat is quietly situated, with absolutely superb views. Five minutes from the Innerwengen ski lift and Mary’s Cafe. Fifteen minutes walk from the main railway station. To let all year round. Three double bedrooms, two bathrooms, cloakroom, sauna, sofa bed. Sleeps 8. TV, broadband, DVD, dishwasher, washing machine, wood-burning stove. Ski store. Two large west facing balconies. For full details please ring Peter Voss on 0044 7774 784487 or email: [email protected] or visit www.racersretreat.co.uk 35 Downhill only Journal 2009 36 Downhill only Journal 2009 D.H.O Spring Tour 2009 Jane McCormick Drawn by our love of skis and the mountains, the D.H.O Spring Tour Group comprising Annabel Cameron, Ian Carmichael, Trish Dale, Phil Gepfert, Sally Ireland, Sue Jacoby, Jane & Ian McCormick, Clive Mitchell, John Rigby and John Wright, , , , and Ian Murray (for just two days), together with our guide Adolph Schlunegger and aidede-camp Rene Seiler, gathered at Gsteig on Saturday 21st March. We stayed in a charming chalet style hotel with rather small rooms and enjoyed their speciality Raclette the first evening, although it did sit rather heavily on our travelling tums. Unfortunately, we were without Annabel for a few days as her son broke his arm just as she was leaving, and Ian Carmichael’s skis which he had left in Gstaad.. Sunday Breakfast at 8.00am while Adolph went off to Gstaad to rescue Ian’s skis. We set off in convoy to Diablerets where we took a telecabine,T bar and poma to Isenau. Two very icy runs on the piste to get our ski legs and then “Off Piste”. Adolph found some beautiful pieces of powder despite the snow conditions elsewhere. We had lunch in the sun by an old cowshed and then on with the skins. A 1½ hour walk up following Adolph, who cut our first and last “Paddy Hollington corner” at one nasty point. We arrived at Stuedelistand, had a tea break and then skied down finding more powder. Rene, distracted by Ian McC’s cry of “ptarmigan” (as he near skied over a brace), fell and injured his shoulder quite badly but bravely skied on. We had a long run out on a path leading to a final icy road. John Rigby’s hips held out and Sally, Sue and Jane’s knees survived. That evening, the hotel gave us a delicious dinner overseen by an over-enthusiastic (with the wine) waiter and his small, pompous miniature poodle who sat in a shopping basket. Exhausted by this gastronomic effort the hotel staff promptly went on holiday for 2 days, leaving us the back-door keys and instructions to go to the hotel down the road for our meals. Monday Trekked down the road for breakfast at 7.30 am. Storm warnings so Adolph cancelled previous plans. At 8.30 we set off for Reusch and by lifts various reached Sex Rouge that failed to live up to it’s name! We had a couple of runs on a T-bar with horrid snow and poor visibility. We then skied onto the glacier and put on our skins cautiously, aware of the potential crevasses under our feet. We climbed, aiming to reach the peak of Diablarets, but stopped some 150 metres short as visibility was closing in. We lunched behind some rocks and built a D.H.O cairn at 3080m. Skied down over crusted wind-ridged snow with that horrid feeling you aren’t moving because of the fog effect. Back onto the piste and then up to the restaurant by the impressive Devil’s Skittle Rock where we revived ourselves with glüwein and chough feeding before skiing down a long run to the cablecar restaurant. Phil disappeared off to make an important property deal and Jane disappeared feeling seasick, whilst the rest went back up for two more fast runs (keeping well in front of a pack snowboarders), then more drinks and home. Trekked down the road again through a few snowflakes for a warm Swiss welcome and an excellent dinner at our locum eatery. Tuesday Woke early to the sound of snow ploughs! We had the most magical day. It had snowed and snowed in the night - 50 cms of new snow! After breakfast we donned our skins in the car park of the nearby Victoria Hotel and walked up through the snow laden trees for 2 hours to Adolph and Vreni’s family summer chalet. Adolph went ahead for the last 150 yds and by the time we arrived, the shutters were open and a welcome fire was blazing. We ate our sandwiches, washed down by wine and schnapps. We then climbed for a further hour to the peak of Walighurli 2,100 m, before skiing down in glorious powder through the trees, with intermittent snow and some sun. Even Adolf fell once, blinded by snow going over his head as he turned. Afterwards Adolph and Vreni invited us for particularly delicious local wine and cheese at their home and Adolph showed us some film of his work in Kyrgizstan, teaching the locals to be mountain guides. The equipment, especially the lifts looked very uncomfortable! 37 Downhill only Journal 2009 a ledge facing South West, with apparently vertiginous views to Leukerbad (pity about the storm, we couldn’t see a thing) and gentler slopes to the North down to Daubensee and beyond to the lifts from Kandersteg. We were the only guests and caretakers Patrice and Danielle looked after us beautifully. Wednesday We were to travel early to our next location on the Gemmi Pass up from Leukerbad in the Rhone Valley, but changed plans due to poor visibility there. We drove from the village up the mountainside on a farm track as far as we could before getting stuck. We then climbed for 2 hours to Wallize Wispile 1,900m, taking what Adolph called a Paddy Hollington “P and Tea” stop en route. Some of the granite outcrops were quite interesting to negotiate. Skied down through trees and new snow and back to the Hotel in time to pay bills etc. In the afternoon we drove to Leukerbad in convoy. We then took an ancient (1957) mini cable car rising some 3,000ft to the Gemmi Pass Hotel. This felt like being between the pages of Alistair McClean’s “Where Eagles Dare” as the wind rocked us from side to side in the cable car and we then dragged our cases through a tunnel hewn out of the rock. Walking through glass doors, we were transported to something more like a set on a James Bond film. An amazing hexagonal building perched on 38 Jane McCormick John Rigby Downhill only Journal 2009 Thursday The storm had continued through the night, and still no visibility, so we took the cable car down to Leukerbad, drove to the Torrenthorn area nearby and took the telecabine up. Skies cleared and with hardly a person around, except for the Swiss Ski Team, we were able to enjoy 70cms of powder in the open and through the trees. We were split into two groups and, after some ski technique lessons and stretching exercises (that exposed a few deficiencies amongst those who thought they knew better!) we were let loose: Rene’s group sent on their way with the cry of “just do it”. Jane and Ian both did a bit of tree hugging (though not together) and Trish’s buried skis took some finding and cost her a few beers later. Lunch in the palatial lift restaurant and afterwards we went even higher when some T-bars opened. A remarkable day of off piste skiing. Back up to the Gemmi where we saw some bearded eagles and had another excellent meal and more film of our exploits. Friday Breakfast at 7.30am and left Hotel at 8.00. Poor visibility but less wind. Skied part way down to Lake Daubensee, then, as we climbed for 1½ hours up the Lammeran, the weather began to clear and we could see some peaks. The climb was abbreviated owing to avalanche danger. We skied down in increasingly heavy powder to the lake, skinned back along it and climbed back up to the Hotel, to see for the first time the panorama of the mountain tops, from the gleaming Dent Blanche to that evocative mountain the Matterhorn in the distance. Lunch in the Hotel and down in the 1.30pm bucket. Ian McCormick succeeded in leaving his ski behind, which slightly delayed our departure (after much hugging and kissing and “see you next year”) from a most memorable tour which was so imaginatively arranged and executed by Adolph, aided and abetted by Rene. Trish Dale (Below) Blasting the powder 39 Downhill only Journal 2009 Unique winter-paradise Unique hiking-paradise 40 Downhill only Journal 2009 D.H.O Walking Week 2008 Michael Oliver Until September 2008 I had only ever visited Wengen in the winter and was looking forward to seeing it verdant and green. However, when I arrived it was raining, misty, and there was a sprinkling of snow on the trees not much further up the mountain! Fortunately that was as bad as it got and the weather improved throughout the week. There were twelve of us booked into the Sunstar and we were joined on most days by other club members who had their own places in the village. On the Monday twenty-two of us met for lunch in the Männlichen restaurant! The week started with a relatively easy walk on the Sunday. In a very fine drizzle, and with poor visibility, we walked down to Lauterbrunnen which had the benefit of being below the clouds! After a leisurely coffee we followed the road up to Isenfluh, where we had an even more leisurely lunch, before carrying on up to Grütschalp. There were several viewing points on the way but unfortunately no views! From there it was back to Wengen by cablecar and train. On the Tuesday several of us did two walks, either side of the “walking the cows” ceremony. This is when some of the villagers dress in traditional costume and walk the cows down to Lauterbrunnen for the winter. The cows themselves were decorated with flowers and huge bells and it was quite a spectacle, though I suspect it is put on mainly for the benefit of a handful of tourists. One cow broke ranks and tried to go into the Co-op – she must have heard about the special offer on the moosli! After this we had a picnic lunch on the train to Eigergletscher and followed the Eiger trail down to Alpiglen. The conditions made this a dramatic walk, with quite deep snow in places and the famous north face appearing and disappearing in the clouds. We also saw a spectacular waterfall, a taster for those in the group that went to the Trümmelbach Falls the following day. If I thought Tuesday was good, which I certainly did, Wednesday was even better and undoubtedly the highlight of my week. Trusting the weather forecast which said it was going to be a bright sunny day five of us met for breakfast at 7.00am before catching an early train down to Wilderswil. From there we took a quaint old mountain train up to Schynige Platte, a place that had completely passed me by until this week. We were going to walk to First, and knew from the signs at Schynige Platte that we had to reach there by 5.00pm, when the last bubble descended. This gave us more than seven hours, which proved to be ample. The forecast was correct and it wasn’t long before we stripped down to short-sleeved shirts and shorts for the first time in the week. The first part of the walk was in alpine meadow, with great views of Interlaken and Lake Brienz. We also got an outstanding view of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau soon after. The terrain became quite rocky for a while before we started our ascent of the Faulhorn. While not particularly steep this was long, and made more difficult by the amount of snow on the ground. Still, once we’d made it, it was more or less downhill all the way to First. We dropped below the snowline, walked along the edge of two lakes and saw (and heard!) marmots gambolling in the meadows before eventually reaching the bubble lift. A fantastic day, with a huge variety of scenery and plenty of marvellous views. And the company was great as well! As usual in Wengen the social life was busy. On the Wednesday Roger and Sarah Hoyle gave a drinks party and on Thursday the D.H.O invited many friends from the village to a social evening in the hut. On Friday Suzi Fuchs invited us to her apartment for a few glasses of wine after she had led a walk from Gimmelwald to Chilchbalm and back down to Stechelberg for a late lunch. This walk was interrupted for a few minutes to let a herd of pigs come past on a narrow forest track! In addition to the organised affairs some of us felt that it was our duty to ensure that Jeremy’s ownership of Rocks bar would be a successful one! My “easy” day was Thursday, when Martin and I walked up the Männlichen. Somehow we managed to take a wrong turning on the way up, but this meant that we saw a tree being felled at fairly close proximity. Close enough to make us run when it hit the ground anyway! The route we took was short and steep so we stopped regularly “to admire the views”. We also walked through the avalanche prevention barriers, which are much bigger than they appear from the cablecar. We were back down by early afternoon and helped get the hut ready for the evening. This holiday seems to be an annual event now, and I can thoroughly recommend it. The atmosphere is very relaxed and no-one is put under any pressure to do anything that they don’t want to. On most days we didn’t decide what walk we would do until that morning’s breakfast and there were usually at least two groups doing different things each day. The routes themselves were well signposted and easy to follow – easier than the maps in my opinion! I’ll definitely be back for more, and may even get to go up to Jungfraujoch next time. 41 Downhill only Journal 2009 FALKEN HOTEL WENGEN - JUNGFRAU Familie S. Cova Historisches Hotel, Familienfreundlich, mit Stil und warme Atmosphäre Historical Hotel, family friendly, with style and warm atmosphere RESTAURANT • PIANO BAR BEAUTIFUL GARDEN WITH VIEW Tel: 0041 (0)33 8565121 Fax: 0041 (0)33 8553339 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.hotelfalken.com 42 Downhill only Journal 2009 Wengen Faces Lauberhorn Sponsors Race. Winners of D.H.O Race on the top section of the Lauberhorn (from right to left); Sally Ireland, Maureen Fanshawe, Matthew Clayton, Martin Gertsch, Lizzy Davis and Sabine Howard. Lizzy Davis is holding medals for two missing competitors. (Above) The D.H.O Inferno Race Team outside the Eiger, 24th January 2009. (Right) Mrs Jane Fairclough (clothes carrier) at Lauterbrunnen on Inferno Race Day. 43 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 ENJOY WENGEN IN THE D.H.O’S OWN FLAT Located 10 minutes from Wengen Station, the D.H.O flat is on the ground floor of Chalet Breithorn. Sleeps 4. Modern flat, tastefully furnished Double bedroom, living room with pull-out sofa, bathroom, separate toilet, large kitchen/dining area with dishwasher. Cable TV, radio, washing machine, drier. Terrace with table and chairs. Available outside the ski season. Rentals for under a week possible DISCOUNTED RATES FOR D.H.O MEMBERS Apply to: Chalet Service, Wengen [email protected] Tel: +41 794150554 • Fax: +41 33 855 3871 www.cotswoldglazing.com GLAZING EXPERTISE FOR SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, HISTORIC BUILDINGS, DOMESTIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Best wishes for a successful 2009/10 ski season to all D.H.O members Cotswold Glazing Ltd. THORPE WAY, BANBURY OXON OX16 4SP TEL: (01295) 266965 FAX: (01295) 267760 44 Downhill only Journal 2009 A Fitting Farewell Norman Freund It has become a sort of tradition for D.H.O members to sit down at dinner in the Bären Hotel dining room after the MacMillan Day prize giving. This year, the attendance at the dinner packed the dining room as never before. The occasion was a demonstration of D.H.O members’ appreciation of the work done by Paul and Maree Zvegintzov during Paul’s many years as Wengen Secretary. President Max Davies delivered the main speech and presentations. He emphasised how much the Club had grown during Paul’s tenure and, as a result, the huge number of people Paul and Maree had shown around the mountains. He pointed out that Paul had from the outset made the case for the D.H.O finding its own, more spacious premises, and that it was so fitting that Paul and Maree were there to see this ambition fulfilled before the end of their tenure. The presentations included a cheque to which so many members had contributed, and a large, colourful cuckoo clock which (mercifully), can be switched off at night. Paul thanked everyone for a fine dinner and send-off, along with the presentations. He promised that Wengen and the D.H.O had not seen the last of him and Maree. Paul’s successor, Sheridan Killwick, expressed her appreciation for the welcome Paul and Maree had given her and for the smooth handover. Like all occasions of this sort, the evening was an act of celebration tinged with the inevitable sadness of saying “au revoir”, certainly not farewell, to someone who had become a friend of everyone in that crowded dining room. President, Max Davies delivers the main speech at the Presentation Dinner. Wengen Secretary Paul Zvegintzov at the Presentation Dinner. Marre and Paul Zvegintzov inspect one of the items presented to them at the Dinner. 45 Downhill only Journal 2009 Club News List of Officers & Committee Members 2009/10 President: Max Davies Vice-Presidents: E.D. Lonie E.V.F. Perrott Hon.Secretary: Mrs Sarah Hoyle, 4 The Chines, Delamere Park, Cuddington, Cheshire CW8 2XA tel: 01606 889599 email: [email protected] Hon.Editor: Hon.Advertising Officer: Hon.Membership Secretary: Hon.Treasurer: Directors: Mr D.T. Price, 11 The Dairyground Shutford, Nr. Banbury, Oxon OX15 6PN tel: 01295 780335 email: [email protected] Mr N. Freund, Barnwell, High Street South, Tiffield, Northants NN12 8AB. tel: 01327-353166 email: [email protected] Mrs E. Macleod, The Old Rectory, Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambs, PE28 2AQ. Weekends: tel: 01480 462545 fax: 01480 301387 Committee: (other than Officers of the Club): Mrs S Davies 2007 Dr A Davies 2008 Mr P Lightfoot 2008 Mrs E Moore 2008 Mr W Perrott 2007 Mr R Prest 2008 Mrs S Robinson 2005 Mr M West 2007 Mr M Woodhall 2007 The names of members nominated for committee and those of any officers of the club who are subject to re-election at the 2010 A.G.M. are stated in the A.G.M Notice enclosed with this Journal. Racing Manager: Miss I. Christophersen, Bentley, Hallands, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 5AF tel: 01825 840043 email: [email protected] Wengen Manager: Miss Sheriden Killwick, (Winter address) D.H.O Office, CH-3823 Wengen, Switzerland tel: 00-41-33-855-1375 Mr E.D. Lonie Boraston House, 22 Ravelston Dykes Road, Edinburgh EH4 3PB. tel: 0131-336-4494 New D.H.O Club Room 46 R. M. Davis Dr H. Alban Davies E.D. Lonie T.H. Walduck Dr I.W. McCormick Downhill only Journal 2009 D.H.O Calendar 2009/10 December 2009 31.12.09 Heinz Cup (Pairs Treasure hunt) January 2010 15-17.1.10 22-24.1.10 28.1.10 Lauberhorn World Cup Murren Inferno Railway Cup February 2010: 2.2.10 4.2.10 4.2.10 11.2.10 18.2.10 Lucy Dicker Night Slalom McMillan Cup 85th Anniversary party Andy Capp Polytechnic Cup Slalom March 2010: 5-7.3.10 11.3.10 25.3.10 Amateur Inter-Club Championships Kurverein Crystal (Pairs handicap) Odling Cup Spring Tour programme 2010 Spring Tour: Sat. 20th to Fri. 26th March 2010. To be held in the Montafon region in Austria, just over the border from Klosters, and probably centred on Gargellen. Extensive touring is available in the Rhaetikon and Silvretta areas. Contact Ian McCormick: The Old Store, Meonstoke, Hants, SO32 3NH; tel (h) 01489 877909; (m) 01974-675348 or email at: [email protected] Obituaries Please note the above dates are liable to change and are subject to weather conditions. The date of the Roped Race is to be confirmed. Mrs Virginia Edington-Brown David Clarabut DSC Jan Raats Keith Room John Webster Henk van Zalinge New Members 2009 Most of the members listed here are new to the Club but a few have re-joined after a period away from skiing. A very warm welcome is extended to all. Peter Steve Hugh Alexander Colin Karen Hannah Samantha Phillipa Oliver John Anthony Charles Rachel Geraldine Sarah William Margaret Henry Hannah Sarah Elissa Michael Richard Grant Lucy Bruce Nick Will Philippa Rebecca Peter Tom Arengo-Jones Barr Bartlett Battley Baxter Baxter Baxter Baxter Baxter Bett Blackmore Blake Blake Blake Blake Blake Bode Bode Boorman Bozier Bryant Bucher Bucher Burton Butchart Butchart Clark Davis Deakin Diggle Diggle Diggle Dodd-Noble Rona Thomas James Iona Alexander Robin Samuel Jennifer Elizabeth Freddie Caroline Catherine Niki Patricia Christopher Annie Alicky John Robert Francesca Poppy Pauline Wendy Susan Stephen Benjamin Christopher Karen David Martin Rebecca William Rosie Fairhead Fairhead Fairhead Fairhead Fairhead Faulkner Flynn Gallagher Gay Gay Gay Gay Gay Gill Gill Gloster Gravell Haddon Harrington Harris Hartley Headey Hill Hill Hinds Holt Johnson Jones King Klein Klein Leach Leach Louise Freddie David Heidi Mark Rebecca Kieran Sophie Jake Sally Craig George Paul Neil Andrew Robbie Dana Stephen Peter Peter Cliff Jonathan Godfrey Giles Claudia Edward Grant Howard Lynne Terry Matthew John Christopher Leach Lewis Lewis Lewis Lewis Lewis Lismore Lismore Lismore Lismore Lissner Logut Matthews McCann Mindenhall Muir Nason Neal Newbould Nicholson Nye Percival Perrott Pinkney Pitcher Robinson Rogerson Savage Jones Savage Jones Scholer Shaw Shewring Slaski Jake Smale Anthony Stanley Sophie Stanley Oliver Stanley Henry Stewart Hugh Tayler Sally Taylor Kate Taylor Michael Taylor Charles Tritton Jutta van Eeghen-Fischer William Verdon-Smith Antoinette Voss Peter Voss Frederick Wallis Richard Ward Thea Watts Jeremy Watts Jemma Watts David Watts Oliver Watts Clare Watts Raef Watts Amelie-Rose Watts William Wheeler Hannah Willmott Tracy Willmott Colin Willmott Oliver Willmott Jamie Younger Nikolai Zotov 47 Downhill only Journal 2009 Presidents and Vice Presidents Vice-Presidents: Presidents: 1924-25: 1925-26: 1926-28: 1928-29: 1929-31: 1931-32: 1932-33: 1933-34: 1934-35: 1935-36: 1936-37: 1937-38: 1938-45: 1945-48: 1948-49: 1949-50: 1950-53: 1953-56: 1956-57: Major C.J. White MC Major S.F. Fisken MC Major C.J. White MC Major C.J. White MC Flt.Lt H.R.D. Waghorn T.R. Fox Major C.H. White MC Lt.Cdr R.B. Gossage RN K.D. Foster Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton Major H.W. Hall MC Wartime Trustees: Col. C.J. Odling TD K.D. Foster MBE K.D. Foster MBE K.D. Foster MBE Sir Adrian Jarvis Bt. K.D. Foster MBE 1957-60: 1960-64: 1964-67: 1967-70: 1970-73: 1973-75: 1975-76: 1976-78: 1978-80: 1980-83: 1983-86: 1986-91: 1991-94: 1995-96: 1996-97: 1997-98: 1998-99: 1999-00: 2000-01: 2001-02: 2002-03: 2003-04: 2004-05: 2005-06: 2006-07: 2007-08: 2008-09 2009-10 C.E.W. Mackintosh C.E.W. Mackintosh H.S. Walduck H.S. Walduck R.E.H. Edmonds R.E.H. Edmonds The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman The Hon. Mrs S. Hensman J.D.D. Waghorn J.D.D. Waghorn Mrs R.E.H. Edmonds T.H. Walduck T.H. Walduck T.H. Walduck T.H. Walduck T.H. Walduck T.H. Walduck Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr H.J. Alban Davies R.M. Davies R.M. Davies R.M. Davies R.M. Davies R.M. Davies K.D. Foster - - - Flt.Lt H.R.D. Waghorn Capt. J.C. Davis Capt. J.C. Davis T.R. Fox C.F.S. Taylor Major C.J. White MC T.R. Fox C.F.S. Taylor Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton C.E. Gardner Capt. R.A.D. Fullerton Major C.J. White MC K.D. Foster T.R. Fox Major H.W. Hall MC J.W. Richardson Capt.R.A.D. Fullerton, P.M. Hepworth and G. Paxton - - A.H.H. Gilligan A.A. Jarvis A.A. Jarvis H.M.J. Barnard-Hankey Sir Adrian Jarvis Bt. H.M.J. Barnard-Hankey H.M.J. Barnard-Hankey Mrs P.M. Hepworth Mrs P.M. Hepworth C.E.W. Mackintosh Mrs P.M. Hepworth The Hon.Max Aitken DSO DFC Mrs P.M. Hepworth Dr R.M. Mason Mrs P.M. Hepworth Dr R.M. Mason R.E.H. Edmonds M.O. Gill M.O. Gill H.P. Gardner M.O. Gill The Hon.Mrs S. Hensman J.N. Paxton J. Latimer J. Latimer J. Latimer J.D.D. Waghorn J. Latimer D.K.D. Foster J. Latimer P. Benson Browning P. Benson Browning T.H. Walduck J. Latimer N. Currie Dr. I.W. McCormick Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr. I.W. McCormick Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr I.W. McCormick Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr I.W. McCormick Dr H.J. Alban Davies Dr I.W. McCormick Dr I.W. McCormick E.D. Lonie Dr I.W. McCormick E.D. Lonie Dr I.W. McCormick E.D. Lonie Dr I.W. McCormick E.D. Lonie E.D. Lonie E. Perrott E.D. Lonie E. Perrott E.D. Lonie E. Perrott E.D. Lonie E. Perrott E.D. Lonie E. Perrott Hon. Editors of the D.H.O Journal 1936-38: K.D. Foster 1939-45: Journal suspended 1946-55: K.D. Foster 1956-65: R.E.H. Edmonds 48 1966-67: T.B. Ashburner 1968-75: D.N. Freund 1976-80: D.K.D. Foster 1981-88: Brig. D.F. Ryan 1989-90: B. Caulfield. 1991-00: Brig. D.F. Ryan 2000- D.T. Price Downhill only Journal 2009 Obituaries John Webster (1927 – 2009): Johnnie and his sisters were brought up in some style in Sheffield with a Rolls-Royce in the garage and a liveried chauffeur. At the age of ten he was sent to school at Chateau d’Oeux for his health and to learn French. It was there that he learned to ski. The WW2 years and immediately after were taken up with Repton and National Service followed by a short spell in his fathers business which, as Johnnie was an outdoor person, was not a success. He wanted to farm and, after a period in Herefordshire, in 1952 he purchased his own farm at Westwood in Nottinghamshire. In 1954 he married Anne and before long their three daughters, Valerie, Libby and Caroline arrived. He joined the D.H.O in 1953 and served on the Committee for many years, regularly going to London for meetings. He would spend five to six weeks as a rep in Wengen, skiing with members during the day and indeed, no one knew all the possible – and nearly impossible – ways through the woods of the Wengen mountains better than Johnnie. This was real cross country stuff, going over streams and fences, and not for the faint hearted! He would find spring snow on the Männlichen in the morning, moving round to the Lauberhorn to catch the good slopes for as long as the snow lasted. In 1994 he was awarded the clubs Gold Badge and a look at the D.H.O prizes dotted around ‘Westwood’ testified to Johnnie’s skiing prowess and youthful turn of speed. Even aged 80 he was still game for the odd club race. However, his real love was for off-piste and ski-touring which he ran for the club for many years He organised some wonderful ski tours both around Wengen and in many other parts of Switzerland, France and Italy. If you look at the maps, there aren’t many places that Johnnie didn’t cover. In 1987, he climbed Mont Blanc with a group of D.H.O friends guided by Adolf Schlunegger He was a robust and reliable tourer who got on well with the guides. When he took a tumble, it tended to be a ‘heart-stopper’ as when he fell on the front of the Wetterlücke causing guide Freddie Fuchs almost to have apoplexy! Champagne at Männlichen circa mid nineties Johnnie was immensely competitive, with a great sense of fun whether driving a fairground bumper car before a ski tour or racing a skidoo at highly illegal speeds across Yellowstone National Park during a warm-up prior to a week’s heli-skiing. At 60, he tried snowboarding and hang-gliding in case he was missing something. Sadly, various age-related ailments conspired to slow Johnnie down. The hip flasks became champagne breaks, but the fun and enthusiasm remained At home he kept a small herd of Highland cattle which stayed with him until his final move to Retford. They added a touch of class to his establishment and definate class to Anne’s dining table. Johnnie was a life-long much liked and respected Freemason, as shown by the number at his memorial service. Lastly, Johnnie did so much for the D.H.O and left behind very many friends. His wish was that his ashes be scattered over his beloved Bernese Oberland. SAE and VG Johnnie on Tour surveying the scene (1980’s) 49 Downhill only Journal 2009 David Stewart Clarabut D.S.C. ( 1923 - 2009): David died on Tuesday 6th January peacefully at home with his family. He led a full life that included being awarded the DSC in 1944 for his war efforts which included the famous strike on the German battleship “Tirpitz”. After the war David joined the local family firm “London and Rochester Trading Company” and eventually in 1980 became Chief Executive of Hays Group. He had many other City interests including being Master of the Worshipful Company of Watermen and Lightermen in 1972 and Prime Warden of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights in 1982. David had interests in many other sports, but his main loves were skiing and yacht racing and he became a member of the D.H.O in 1956. With his wife Deirdre and their five children David made over 30 visits to Wengen always staying in the Eiger hotel. He had his own style of skiing but rarely came to grief! He would often be seen at the round table in the Stübli bar, a favourite haunt of the D.H.O at the time, discussing the day’s events and those magnificent mountains. I once remember him saying to Karl Fuchs whilst drinking his Kummel “I got the whole family down ’Oh God’ today, including a couple of Grandchildren!” Surrounded by his family and friends David was often at his most relaxed when in Wengen. During his last visit in spring 2006 whilst he did not ski he did get to the top of the Männlichen for lunch, where he had his favourite Rösti and Dôle whilst taking in the breathtaking views and looking at his favourite mountain, the Eiger. He had several beautiful yachts on the River Medway named “Vendetta”. Prior to big boats he was a very keen Dragon sailor and on one occasion in 1957 represented the UK in a four boat team against the Royal Danish Yacht Club in Denmark. The four Dragons were taken to Copenhagen in the Royal Yacht Britannia in company with the Queen on a state visit. David had many successes on the water not only on the River Medway but also away from home including coming 2nd in the 1957 Edinburgh Cup and in 1967 he was the winner of the Queens Cup Cowes. David is survived by his wife Deirdre and his five children Pepita, Nicola, Deedle, Tania and Philip as well as his 14 grand-children and three great grand-children. PC Keith Room (1922- 2009): Keith Room died on March 26th 2009 aged 86. He had joined the D.H.O in 1972, was a regular competitor in the Macmillan Cup and in 2003 won the Heavenly Bowl aged 80, after which success he decided it was time to hang up his skis. On leaving Shrewsbury School in 1940 he served with the REME, took part in the liberation of both Singapore and Malaya and left the army in 1946 with the rank of Major. After two years at Corpus Christi, Oxford, in 1949 he joined Standard Telephones & Cables and held various posts in Thorn Electrical Industries until his retirement in 1982. We shared our holidays in Wengen for over 30 years during which period he proved a good companion with a strong sense of humour (he could do a wicked impression of his employer Sir Jules Thorn) with many loyal friends. Keith Room never married and looked after his mother at their home in Bromley until her death. RCW 50 David pictured in 2007 Downhill only Journal 2009 Virginia Hulbert Edington-Brown (1947 – 2009): Virginia Brown (née Cox), Ginny or Gin to her many friends, died suddenly at the end of January 2009 shortly after her return from a skiing holiday in St Anton with her husband Charlie, and friends. They had had a wonderful week and a perfect last afternoon enjoying the sunshine and powder. Ginny died unexpectedly in hospital, after a very short illness, the following Friday. Gin joined the D.H.O as one of Ros Hepworths racing juniors in 1961. She was educated at Châtelard School, above Lake Geneva, in Switzerland and was one of several girls from the school spotted by Ros. She continued to train and race for D.H.O throughout her teens and was a regular contributor of articles to the Journal. She joined the British Ski Team in 1966 and represented GB in races all over Europe. After retiring from ski racing Gin went to work in Aviemore as a ski instructor and met her future husband Charlie. They both loved Wengen and the Bernese Oberland and began touring with Oskar Gertsch Senior around the Bernese Oberland, and more recently the Aosta Valley. Gin also joined the British Masters Ski Team and won an international event in Andorra. In 2007, to celebrate her 60th birthday, she organised a chalet holiday for a group of friends in her favourite ski resort, Wengen. Unfortunately, she had allowed her membership of the D.H.O to lapse around 1995. Gin will be best remembered for her sense of fun and zest for life with which she imbued her many friends. Her love of planning (or plotting as she preferred to call it), be it a trip to the cinema, or long distance journey to foreign parts by train, always drew in an enthusiastic group of companions for her next adventure. Her ashes have been scattered in her beloved Switzerland, beside her old school and facing the Dent du Midi. Her death leaves a great gap in the lives of all who knew her. BC (née Newall) 51 Downhill only Journal 2009 LAGER WASSERWENDI MÄNNLICHEN 2,343 m 7,687 ft CABLE CAR TOP STATION 2,230 m 7,317 ft THIRD GULLY MÄNNLICHEN RESTAURANT MÄNNLICHEN GONDELBAHN CABLE CAR STATION CHAMOIX HERE WENGEN MÄNNLICHEN GULLY RUN TSCH SATTELEG NURSERY SLOPES 1,274 m 4,187 ft TSCHUGGEN 2,520 m 8,286 ft DRUNKARD’S DROP GUM HONEGG BRUNNER SLOPES GHOSTLY PUMP GRAVEYARD SLALOM ALLMEND INNER WENGEN HONEGG MARY’S CAFÉ LAUBERHORN 2,472 m 8,111 ft MARY’S JUMP LAUBERHORN DEVIL’S GAP SAWMILLS GRINDELWALD BLICK TELEGRAPH FIELD OLD JUMPING HILL BANNWALD HALT JOHAN’S HOLE COW SHEDS WOOD PATH SWITCH BACKS WASSER STATION THE BUMPS BROOKLANDS PLUM PUDDING HILL (GIRMSCHBIEL) METTLENALP 52 HOSEN PLATZ NEW MIDDLE RIDGE MIDDLE RIDGE THE TUNNEL WENGERNALP KITTY DOBB’S RUN COW SHEDS RAT RUN SLIP CARTILAGE CORNER DHO GAP 1,705 m 2,061 m 6,762 ft THE SHOULDER KNIFE EDGE WICKIBORY KLEINE SCHEIDEGG 1,873 m 6,145 ft CHEESE HUT WIXI 1,829 m EGGBLATZ WIXI (TRIPLE CHAIR) (FALLBODEN) “OH BLACK DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 ALP RAUFT ALPINE GARDEN HOLENSTEIN HAUNTED HOUSE GRUND ASPEN HUBEL 343 m 3,094 ft ITRAMEN BRANDEGG MACʼS LEAP TSCHUGGEN GLADE BARHAG CHUGGEN GUMMI BRANDEGG RUN MMI ALPIGLEN 1,615 m 5,299 ft STRÄÄTLI ARVENGARTEN ARVEN WHITE HARE PINK HUT SALZEGG 1,990 m 6,529 ft TO JUNGFRAUJOCH EIGER 3,970 m 13,026 ft STN. EISMEER FALLBODEN H GOD” K ROCK SALZEGG MISS FOSTERʼS HUT STEEP FACE HIGH TRAVERSE STN. EIGERWAND Ski Runs PUNCH BOWL Mountain Railway (WAB) 2,320 m 7,612 ft EIGERGLETSCHER Cable Car GondelBahn Chair Lift ‘T’ Bar - Drag Lift 53 Downhill only Journal 2009 APARTMENT TO RENT South facing balcony. Quiet Location. Modern kitchen and bathroom. CONTACT: Deborah Flindall Phone/Fax 01622 873172 www.bookaswisschalet.com Rental DVDs From MOORE MOVIES at Chalet Traumli, Wengen DIRECTIONS TO MOORE MOVIES, CHALET TRAUMLI, WENGEN: FROM WENGEN STATION, GO UP THE HILL WITH THE RAILWAY TRACK AND CAPRICE HOTEL ON YOUR RIGHT HAND SIDE, THE REGINA AND FALKEN HOTELS ON YOUR LEFT. AT THE TOP OF THE HILL, TURN RIGHT UNDER THE RAILWAY BRIDGE MOORE MOVIES at CHALET TRAUMLI IS IMMEDIATELY ON YOUR LEFTHAND SIDE OPENING DECEMBER 21ST 2009 HOURS OF OPENING: Monday to Friday 5.00pm -7.00pm CLOSED SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Email: [email protected] Phone: 0041 794 213 194 54 HIGH FASHION SPORTSWEAR Specialists for skis and skiboots Most modern Ski-hire and Ski-tuning department Telefon: Telefax: E-mail: Website: 033 855 2131 033 855 4631 [email protected] www.molitor.ch Downhill only Journal 2009 Wengen Curling Club 2008 Fred A MacKenzie Reports had filtered back to the UK of the wonderful festive season in Wengen with plenty of snow and sunshine - and so we arrived to find the BOCA outdoor championships being played in perfect conditions – 36 teams using 9 sheets – a magnificent sight. Although representing the Jungfrau Club on this occasion, ‘our’ team, including Ueli Trachsel, Andrew Corcoran and Detlef Scholten finished well up the prize list. It was sunny and cold when four teams lined up to battle for the Reinert Stoffer Cup. The winners, and the first names on the boards for 2009 were Walter Marti, Diane Paterson, Godfrey Bedford and Mike Hales. On the Saturday of the Lauberhorn Race, six teams of three participated in the Lehman Bonspiel. All teams got to pick from the ‘bottle stall’ and Peter’s Dolly was presented by the President to Susan Hinds, Sue Bedford and Loreen MacKenzie. The thermometer had risen slightly for the Wright Bowl bonspiel, won by Ueli Trachsel, Diane Paterson, Elsbeth Marti and Laura Corcoran. (Did you realise that your mother-in-law, Ann, won this trophy 28 years ago, Laura?) With some hotels not taking curlers until after the race weekend, there was a disappointing entry of only six teams for the Hotel & Chalet Cup. On the second day, a few snowflakes forced us inside for the semi-final although we were outside again for the final which resulted in a triumph for team Eiger - Diane and Robin Paterson with Andrew and Laura Corcoran. It was encouraging this year, to see eight teams entering for the Pairs Competition. They all enjoyed some convivial curling which resulted in well deserved prizes for all. For the 4th time in 5 years, Toni Loretan was in the victorious pair, this time with Sue Bedford. Still beautiful weather for the Bühlmann Cup and after a two day schenkel competition, the top rink of Diane Paterson, Allan Higgins, Elsbeth Marti and Margaret Gibb received the trophy from Loreen. 55 Downhill only Journal 2009 100 Years www.centralsport.ch 56 Bootfitting [email protected] Downhill only Journal 2009 For those unaware, the Eiger is no longer a hotel but is being converted into appartments. The downstairs bar and restuarant have been taken over by Rudi and Bea who made us most welcome on many occasions. The D.H.O have moved in to the old residents lounge which of course means they have departed from our clubhouse (after a ’provisional’ arrangement made in 1977). We wish them well in their splendid new quarters and hope our longstanding fellowship will continue. They say the sun shines on the righteous and the ladies were certainly lucky when they assembled to play for the Margaret Walker Quaich. Having done all the preparatory work, Donald White was unfortunately unable to be there on the day to keep them in line, however all went well, including the lunch at the Victoria Lauberhorn and the gluewein at the ice-rink, courtesy of the Eiger! Valerie Browning presented charming cushions to the winners, Pat Orr, Christine Reid, Margaret Gow and Loreen MacKenzie. We were now at maximum numbers (14 teams) and guess what – after a week of sunshine, snow forced us to play for the President’s Prizes in the ‘cowshed’. On day one we were obliged to play shortened games and unsocial hours to get down to 4 teams for the traditional semi-finals on the second day. President Mike presented the Hewitt Cup and his prizes of engraved replica Welsh miners lamps to Norman Walker, Bruno Wezel, Rosemarie Rösti and Iris Simpson. The gentlemen had to endure the long trek to Mürren but were able to enjoy some social curling in the glorious weather and an even more sociable lunch, before rushing back to catch the climax of the Ladies competition. But this was not the only presentation as we gathered downstairs in the Eiger for the AGM. Jimmy MacPherson had decided not to come out for what would have been his 40th year in Wengen. Over these many years, his famous tartan hat had been well admired by a certain member so he had sent it out and asked that it be bestowed to a bemused Bruno, who wore it with great pride for the rest of the season. We were pleased to welcome 11 newcomers to Wengen this year, including Inglis and Katherine McAulay – but it transpired this was not the first time they had curled in Wengen when we noticed Katherine’s name on the board as a winner of the Hewitt Cup in the early eighties. Another big entry for the Wengen Cup and the weather let us down again – by the end of the first afternoon it was so stormy that the curtain at the ‘cowshed’ had to be raised, resulting in a premature end to the curling. The event was, however, eventually completed with Karl Hindenlang, Bev Brown, Linda MacDonald and George Gilmour the ultimate winners. Vernon Knapper handed over a framed picture which is to hang in the clubhouse, of the team that achieved the 8-ender playing for Remy’s Muffin at Perth. 57 Downhill only Journal 2009 Better weather arrived and play was all outside in the sunshine for the popular Park Hotel Prizes. At the end of a two day knock-out tournament with a low road, Norman Walker found himself in his third consecutive final, emerging as winner with Detlef Scholten, Nicky Bell and Erwin Wenger. Prizes were presented by Margrit Leemann at the munificent reception in the hotel. As ever our thanks must go to Honorary Member Eric Hinds for his long term support of the Club, in particular sourcing many of our prizes and updating the names on our collection of trophies. A four round schenkel competition for the Victoria Lauberhorn Cup culminated with Diane Paterson, Nora McCrossin, Heather Brown and John Stevenson receiving their prizes at the hotel. With numbers dropping off we were back down to four teams vying to get their hands on the Wyllie Shield, still with glorious sunshine and keen ice. New committee member Christina Lockyer ultimately handed over the shield to Harry Mitchell, Andrew Corcoran, Barbara Scholten and Loreen MacKenzie. Hon. Secretary: Fred A MacKenzie, 5 Windmill Road, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)1334 473166 Email: [email protected] L:C<:C 6eVgibZcidc)i];addg d[i]Z:^\Zg=diZa The final day started off with a bizarre incident when Toni Loretan was knocked over on the nursery slope by a landing paraglider. However he was fit enough to continue in the fun bonspiel for the Holland Cup, where the teams played 5 ends against each of the other rinks. The Secretary had been clearing out the prize cupboard so everyone got to pick from the assortment of odd prizes with the winners, Harry Mitchell, Robin Paterson and Graham Browning having first choice. dcZb^cjiZlVa`[gdbi]ZigV^ch! XVWaZXVgVcYh]deh WVaXdcn!ldcYZg[jak^Zlh haZZeh)"+!ildYdjWaZWZYgddbh aVg\Za^k^c\VgZVl^i]hd[VWZY iZaZk^h^dc!YkYeaVnZgVcY Y^h]lVh]Zg 6K6>A67A:HJBB:G6C9L>CI:G [dg^c[dgbVi^dceaZVhZZbV^adgXVaa/ hVcYnTdbbVccZn5]dibV^a#Xdb %&(.')((-,% 58 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 Fastrack your way into the exciting world of ski instruction... You’re passionate about skiing, be it racing or recreationally with friends and family but those few weeks away to the mountains just sometimes don’t feel enough. Do you dream of skiing every day of the winter? Never missing those powder days, sunny days, emptier slopes, and the atmosphere, not to mention the lifestyle you experience in the mountains. Why not consider a ski ‘Gap’ course! Imagine skiing every day of the season or being able to jet out to your favourite resort to ski, share your passion for the sport and get paid to be there. The ski gap course market is getting bigger all the time, but to help simplify everything for you I have written this article that will explain the options available to you, what the course should include, details about the qualifications and where you can work with your new achievements. WHEN? Firstly and most importantly is when to do your Gap course. There are 2 options. Before the ski season starts (summer or autumn) or during the winter season. If you choose to do your training during the season then you will be able to enjoy skiing a fully open ski resort and all the facilities and pleasures that come with it, resulting in being qualified by March with the possibility of working for the remainder of that season. Choosing the pre-season course will mean that the majority of the course is run on an alpine glacier. This option results in becoming a fully qualified ski instructor before the season meaning you are free to enjoy the skiing, lifestyle and pleasures of a fully open ski resort being paid to be there! WHERE? Where to do your gap course? Here the choice is endless. There is a ski gap course in almost every corner of the globe from the French Alps to Canada to New Zealand. This choice could be made by a location preference, or better still by which governing body you wish to qualify with. I am going to focus purely on British Gap courses all of whom qualify their instructors with Basi (British Association of Snowsport Instructors) the benefits and pathway to certification are detailed below. CONTENT? Different course providers will offer slightly different course content primarily to try and differentiate themselves, all courses though should include: • Personal performance training. • Teacher training. • Basi exam fees. • Accommodation. • Lift pass. • First Aid. • Ski school experience and shadowing. BASI Basi is the British governing body for all British Snowsports qualifications, with a structured pathway in Alpine, Nordic, Telemark, Adaptive, and Snowboarding disciplines. In Alpine skiing Basi has a 4-stage system, which is structured to help you gain worldwide recognized qualifications and career opportunities. Full details on the pathway to level 4 certification can be found on their website. Below I have detailed only the Gap inclusive levels. In order to begin you must enrol on the 1-week training course, these are held in both the Alps and also UK facilities. You must complete all elements of the level 1 course to receive the qualification prior to working as an instructor, then you must complete a further 35 hours work experience (teaching preferable) prior to booking on to your 2-week level 2 course. You can complete level 1 from age 16, and commence level 2 training, but need to be 18 years old to achieve the full level 2 ski instructor licence. BASI LEVEL 1 Basi associate member Basi level 1 Instructor training (1 week) Safeguarding children course 2 Day first aid certificate C.R.B Disclosure Scotland 35 Hours work experience Minimum age 16yrs BASI LEVEL 2 Basi full membership Basi level 2 Instructor training (2 weeks) Minimum age 18yrs 35 Hours work experience WHERE CAN YOU WORK? Basi level 1 instructor allows you to work in non-mountain environments such as UK snowdomes and dry slopes, this is similar to the old ASSI qualification. Basi level 2 is recognized worldwide allowing you to apply for work in Europe (excluding France) America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia (with visa). Some countries require you to complete a training course within their system however this is usually included in any Instructor training, or as a week prior to employment. Now all that’s left is to sign up, and you could be just 8 weeks away from one of the best jobs in the world. For an even more detailed version of this article go to the Snoworks website blog, or our Facebook page. Good luck. Lee Townend works full time for Snoworks and is the Snoworks Gap trainer and mentor, and a Basi tutor. www.snoworks.co.uk/proffesional www.basi.org.uk 59 DOWNHILL ONLY JOURNAL 2009 • Your restaurant for fine food and drink • Specializing in functions of any kind • Contact Lisa or Freddy 0041 (0)33 855 5800 RESTAURANT ALLMEND • WENGEN das sport - und modegeschäft mit ski - und snowboardvermietung EIGER RESIDENCE (Top Floor) Lovely, modern apartment with wonderful views 2 double bedrooms and 2 bathrooms - sleeps 4/6 Open fireplace, washing machine, tumble drier, TV, DVD, Video One minute from trains, cable cars and shops The Sport and Fashion Shop with Ski and Snow Board Rental Barbara & Markus Zumbühl Dorfstrasse, 3823 Wengen Tel: 033 / 855 26 26 www.alpiasport.ch AVAILABLE ALL YEAR Very convenient for the new club room on ground floor Phone/fax 01797 270042 E-mail: [email protected] 60 Come and visit our large range of sports goods! 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