SKI BREEZE January 2017 volume 78,issue 6 - Wild Apricot BREEZE-May2017v2.0.pdfLadies get out your best moo moo dress and men wear our best Aloha shirt. An attached flyer with details

SKI BREEZE

www.longbeachskiclub.org May 2017 Volume 78, Issue 12

Kris’ Kolumn

Please, volunteer yourself or a friend to be the

Ski Breeze Newsletter Editor for your Ski Club !!

Free dues!

Thank you, Cindy, for stepping for the past two

issues! We desperately need a Ski Breeze Editor or the Ski Breeze will be a thing of the past!

Did you get your snail mail package? (1) Ballot, (2) Dinner-Dance flyer, (3) 2017-18

Membership form, and (4) a stamped return envelope. Rules:

- Only current Members vote. - Ballots must be postmarked by May 3 or dropped off at the General Meeting

(Ecco’s). - Write-in candidates are ok. - Count will be an hour before the May 10 Board Meeting.

Dinner-Dance guidelines:

- RSVP with choice of chicken, salmon, or veggie for the May 20 Dinner-Dance to Lance by May 13.

- Separate checks for Membership and Dinner-Dance, please! - The President will buy a drink for any Member who brings a Non-Member to the

Dinner-Dance.

Shep, Ziba, Roberto, Lance, Craig, and Brian have been putting in a lot of effort this year.

I hope your attendance at the Dinner-Dance will reflect your gratitude for their efforts.

http://www.longbeachskiclub.org/


SKI BREEZE MAY 2017 VOLUME 78, ISSUE 12

The program will focus on these leaders and a New Board Member’s presentation on

our recent Week-Long Trips. Come enjoy the best view in town with great fun leaders

who are DOING IT for Your Club!!

Dues are going up, mostly due to increasing insurance:

Single = $45

Couple = $65

Child = $25.

During the past few years, we have found that the Club likes a few things:

- Insurance for the Club, now at $18/Member - Free pizza at the General Meeting - Discounted Dinner-Dance for new or renewed Members - Complimentary catered Holiday/Christmas Dinner for Members - Silent Auction and Raffle to benefit the Club - 10 Trivia Questions to also to benefit the Club

How many more Weekend Trips to Mammoth? Lobby Roberto, if you’d like more!

Please volunteer yourself or a friend to be the Ski Breeze Newsletter Editor for Your Ski

Club !! Or, volunteer to be one of our Web Maters/Mistresses. Free dues for either!

Cheers!

Your winged bum Prez, Kris

We desperately need a Ski Breeze Editor or these reminders will become a thing of the past!


Ecco’s Pizza

2123 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90815

(562) 597 - 3357

Bring friends, coworkers,

family members,

boarders & skiers. Everyone is welcome!



Get Loose with Lance - May Social Article By Lance

For April, we had wine tasting at the Wine Crush. The following Members attended, (ed

note: they also: participated, and otherwise updated each other on the state of the local

area, as they see it): Barbara and Peter Ream, Mike Zulu, Cynthia Carter, Kris Flaig,

Craig Gibson, Roberto Tovar, Kathy Adler, Alan Reiss, and myself. I may have missed

one other, please excuse me. It sucks getting old. Everyone brought appetizers to

share. The evening weather was perfect.

On Saturday, May 20th, we have our Annual Dinner-Dance at Malarkey’s. We will have a

Hawaiian theme. Ladies get out your best moo moo dress and men wear our best Aloha

shirt. An attached flyer with details is in the breeze for your review. Please select your

entrée ASAP and send that (choice) to me with your RSVP.

In June, we will have another Wine Tasting, probably 5 pm, Saturday, June 17th at Bistro

St. Germaine in Seal Beach. For July and August, we will have our annual barbecues.

Watch for flyers in this and upcoming Ski Breezes. I hope everyone is enjoying Spring

Skiing as well as other activities. I put my skis away and await next ski season and more

winter storms.

ALOHA TO EVERYONE !!

Lance


Craig’s Crag … By Craig Gibson, Race VP and Membership Chair

Racing

With all four ULLR races being cancelled due to weather, it was a pleasant surprise to

have blue skies and great snow conditions for the Far West Championships. On April 1

and 2, three of our LBSC members stepped up to the starting gate and did quite well.

Here are the results:

Race 1 Slalom April 1

Racer Class Place Points Strike?

Ken Kawahara S4VM 6 1 No

Brian Maloney S5VM 1 25 No

Roberto Tovar S7VM DNF/DNS 0 No

Race 2 GS April 2

Racer Class Place Points Strike?

Ken Kawahara S4VM 7 12 No

Brian Maloney S5VM 1 25 Yes

Roberto Tovar S7VM 1 25 No

For details please visit http://www.slracing.org/results/217/FarWests/.

Membership

If the Dow can pass the 20,000 mark, there is no reason the LBSC cannot pass the 90

mark. Here are the facts:

June 1, 2014 62 members



Today 89 members

Can we recruit two more members by June 1? If so, that will put us on a four-year

trajectory of continuous membership growth!

Craig

http://www.slracing.org/results/217/FarWests/


photos by Brian, Craig

Gang at the Top Jean, Gino, Peter relaxing

Former President, July, holding court

FWSA Champ of Level 5

Darling at the Top Two Steves are better than ?


Barbara, Roberto, Ron – Cheers! Karen & Catherine & fun at Club Dinner

Not too tired for a glass or 4

Mostly full of good grub at Club Dinner Steve, about to enter …. The Hole

Great Goofy Costumes The Hole in the Wall Gang Two Darlings, Alica & Letty


Two Champs, Brian & Ken Nice new jacket! Nice, er, um, scary?

Ron Tubing at Big White Woolly & Club, only at Mammoth

Two Darling Cooks & Two Interested Customers A Wonderful Pairing, Gino & Jean


Brian, Jean, Guest, Dennis, Roberto Hamming it Up?? Ready to Eat!

Ready to ski on 18 ft of snow! Another Gang at the Top

Brian, Tanja, Gino, Luis, Dennis, Ron, Craig Relaxing after Club Dinner


2017 April Ski Week Article or Mark’s Mark By Shep & Tara, with Mark Malan this month

Sitting in my room at the Mammoth Quality Inn, 4/23/17, thinking over that I didn’t get to ski today made me truly enjoy the ease of week-long group travel. On this solo trip for 3 days, I got to experience the car dying and being towed 30 miles into town. As luck would have it, the garage is across the hwy from the hotel, so this is not a whining session. I’m at Mammoth.

This year the club went to Big White in Canada. The trip was a gas as we were with 3 other clubs. The size allowed us to have fine après ski parties, slalom races, and incredible tubing. Group travel motivates skiers to do things outside their norm and meet other skiers. However, Mammoth had better snow.

Then, the club went to Bormio, Italy. Six Thousand vertical feet… wow! No wonder they are downhill champs…they have real steeps. There were other nearby resorts with inter-changeable lift tickets and nobody will forget the day trip to San Moritz, Switzerland. Again, Mammoth still had better snow.

You never know in advance where the white lumpy rain will land. These week-long travels serve to not only show us alternatives the our own mountains, they are special gifts that let us hang with other skiers ( & some cool riders) and share dream-like memories. The Florence add-on to the ski trip included a day of wine tasting just outside of Siena in Tuscany. While I “Live to Ski”, I would cash in multiple ski days to have another Italian hillside wine tasting tour day.

It is impossible to pick the resort in summer that will be graced with abundant powder six months later. There is talk now of a Banff ski trip, others speak of someone in the LA Council promoting a Three-Valleys trip in France. Stay tuned… I’ll have more info soon. In early June, as part of the learning curve of becoming the VP of week-long trips I will be attending the FWSA travel symposium in Boise, ID. I want to make sure that the club continues to get great offerings to participate in. Good trips offer a club benefit as well as give us a reason to motivate other winter-lovers to join the Long Beach Ski Club. I am learning from Shep, so that the club continues as a strong provider for its members. In another lifetime three decades ago (ed note: Mark must have started that job as a teenager!), I was a tour operator of ski trips, so the combination of my prior experience and the superior tutelage of today’s market, supplied by Shep, lends me to believe that the Long Beach Ski Club will have an awesome 2017-18 destination travel season.

Stay Tuned in June for a Travel Update,

Mark Malan

Hope to see all of you on May 3rd at the LBSC General Meeting at Ecco’s for Pizza @ 7:00 PM.

Shep & Tara


Photos by Mark Malan

Top of the Mountain at Mid-Week Building at top of the Mountain at Mid-Week


Mammoth Weekend Ski Trip Report By Roberto Tovar

Well this weekend is an off the book trip to Mammoth. I am looking forward to

another weekend of skiing. Who knows how long this season is going to last! The

snow level at the Main Lodge is still up to the second floor balcony. If more requests

are made, maybe we can go again!

Some members have already hung up their skis, so it may be time for some spring and

summer fun.

May 5 – 7 La Habra Citrus Fair

321 E. La Habra Blvd, between Cypress and Euclid Streets, La Habra

562-697-1704 citrusfair.com

May 19 – 21 OC Greek Festival, Anaheim

St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church

714-827-0181 ocgreekfest.com

May 20 Best Taste of Santa Ana

Third and Sycamore Streets, Santa Ana

714-664-0547 assistkids.org

May 21 Museum of the Arroyo Day

In the Arroyo Seco, along the 110 Fwy, Los Angeles

Museumsofthearroyo.com

These events are not official club events, but enjoy anyway.

Roberto


Favorite Cuisines in Mammoth – FINAL Repeat!! By Roberto Tovar

RESTAURANT WHAT KNOWN FOR? LOCATION Mogul Steakhouse The best steakhouse in Mammoth

Lakes! On a side street off of Old Mammoth Road

C J's Grill The chef/owner comes up with

interesting variations of old favorite

dishes.

On Old Mammoth Road

Campo's A nice take on modern Italian cooking. In the Mammoth Village

Berger's Simple, good comfort food. On Minaret Road, across from the

Village Toomey's An interesting take on comfort food,

bison meatloaf, anyone? On Minaret Road, down from the

Village. Roberto's A good Mexican taco/burrito joint, but

be prepared for noise. On Old Mammoth Road

Further afield are: Tamarack Lodge I've never been, but have had great

reports from friends who have. Up above town, in the Lakes

Basin Convict Lake Inn Elegant dining, the best wine service in

the Mammoth area. Under new owners. On Convict Lake, down 395,

across from the airport. Tom's Place Cafe If a storm chases you out of Mammoth,

this is a good place for a good country

breakfast.

Down 395, in the village of

Tom's Place

The hands down best restaurant in Mammoth, according to an overheard conversation

on the town shuttle, was opened by the former chef of Tamarack Lodge. It is located

on the second floor, above the bowling alley. Try it and give me a report!

All of the restaurants in Mammoth Lakes can be reached on the evening Red line bus,

which runs between the Snowcreek Athletic Club and Mammoth village.

See application on our website (LongBeachSkiClub.org) & let me know which trips you

are interested in joining! Enjoy and see you on the slopes.

Roberto

[email protected]


LONG BEACH SKI CLUB 2016-17 Extended Season

MAMMOTH WEEKEND TRIP APPLICATION

NAME: _____________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________________

CITY: ___________________________________STATE____________ZIP CODE ________

PHONE _________________________________ EMAIL _____________________________

Please complete a separate application for each trip. Please check the date of trip you wish to attend:

Member Non-Member

☐ May ?? - ??, 2017 three day weekend Thurs-Sun $ 220.00 $270.00

☐ June ?? - ??, 2017 three day weekend Thurs-Sun $ 220.00 $270.00

☐ July ?? - ??, 2017 three day weekend Thurs-Sun $ 220.00 $270.00

* indicates trips where FWSA races occur

Make payment to Long Beach Ski Club

Do you need lift tickets YES NO

Are you willing to be a car pool driver? YES NO

How many people (include yourself) can you accommodate with ski/board gear?

What time do you prefer to leave town?

Three day weekend trips leave on Thursday. All trips return Sunday. All trips are car pool drive-ups. Each individual is

responsible for purchasing/providing for their own lift ticket.

The prices listed above apply to current Long Beach Ski Club members and their guest. Premium for a Non-Member is

applied to membership, and Non-Member must complete a Membership Application to be eligible to stay in the Club Condo.

Prices subject to change without notice. Waiver and Release of Liability (attached) must be signed and returned with this

signup sheet.

Signature ___________________________________________ Date _______________

TRIP CANCELLATION POLICY If it necessary for you to cancel your trip for any reason, the following refund policy will apply:

1. No refund will be issued if the Long Beach Ski Club will suffer financial loss.

2. A refund will be issued if all spaces on the trip have been sold and your cancelled space has been filled and paid for in

full.

3. If a refund is issued, penalties imposed will be deducted from the refund.

4. Refund will be issued ASAP.

CONTACT: SIGN UP:

Roberto Tovar, VP of Weekend Trips At any club meeting, event OR

[email protected] Mail payment & application to: Roberto Tovar

1339 Park Ave., Long Beach CA 90804

For this and other club information visit our website at: www.longbeachskiclub.org

mailto:[email protected]



Long Beach Ski Club Inc.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAIVER OF CLAIMS, EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND

INDEMNITY AGREEMENT

I _______________________________________________ do hereby affirm and acknowledge that I have been fully informed of the inherent hazards and risks associated with Winter Sports Activities, including travel to and from winter designations. I fully understand that these risks can lead to severe injury and even loss of life. I further understand that: 1.Risk of injury from the activity and equipment utilized is significant including the potential for broken bones, severe injuries to the head, neck, and back or other bodily injuries that my result in permanent disability and death.

2. Possible equipment failure and/or malfunction or misuse of my own or others’ equipment. 3. I AGREE THAT I WILL WEAR APPROVED PROTECTIVE GEAR AS DECREED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE SPORT I AM PARTICIPATING IN. However, protective gear cannot guarantee the participant’s safety. I further agree that no helmet can protect the wearer against all potential head injuries or prevent injury to the wearer’s face, neck or spinal cord. Failure to wear a helmet may result in denial of any claim(s) against the Long Beach Ski Club Inc. and its insurance provider. 4. Variation and/or steepness of terrain, variation or changes in surfaces including but not limited to snow surfaces, ice, bare spots, rocks, stumps, debris, cliffs, trees, fences, posts, trees, light poles, signs, buildings, roads, walkways, ramps, rails, stairs, pyramids, manual pads, bowls, half-pipes, jumps, padded and non-padded barriers, other persons, and other natural and man-made hazards. 5. My own negligence and/or the negligence of others, including but not limited to operator error and guide decision making including misjudging terrain, weather, riding surfaces or other obstacles. 6. Exposure to the elements and temperature extremes may result if frost nip, frost bite, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, sunburn, hypothermia and dehydration. 7. Dangers associated with exposure to natural elements include but are not limited to avalanche, rock fall, inclement weather, thunder and lighting, severe and or varied wind, temperature and other weather conditions. I understand the description of these risks is not complete and unknown or unanticipated risks may result in injury, illness, or death. Nevertheless, I wish to proceed and I freely accept and expressly assume all risk, dangers and hazards that may arise from such activities which could result in personal injury, loss of life and property damage to me.

In consideration of being allowed to participate in Long Beach Ski Club activities, I hereby agree as follows:

8. To waive and release any and all claims based upon negligence, active or passive with the exception of intentional, wanton or willful misconduct that I may have in the future against Long Beach Ski Club Inc., their officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, and volunteers from liability and responsibility whatsoever and for any claims or causes of action that I, my estate, heirs, survivors, executors, or assigns may have for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death arising from the above activities whether caused by active or passive negligence of the Long Beach Ski Club Inc. or otherwise.


Long Beach Ski Club Inc.

RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAIVER OF CLAIMS, EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT

9. By executing this document, I agree to hold Long Beach Ski Club Inc. harmless and indemnify them in conjunction with any injury, disability, death, or loss or damage to person or property that may occur as a result of my engaging in the above activities. 10. By entering into this agreement, I am not relying on any oral or written representation or statements made by the Long Beach Ski Club Inc., other than what is set forth in this agreement. I further agree that this Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States of America. 11. If any provision, section, subsection, clause or phrase of this release is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that portion shall be severed from this contract. The remainder of this contract will then be construed as though the unenforceable portion had never been contained in this document. I hereby declare that I am of legal age and am competent to sign this Agreement or, if not, that my parent or legal guardian shall sign on my behalf, and that my parent or legal guardian is in complete understanding and concurrence with this agreement.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT, I UNDERSTAND IT, AND I AGREE TO BE BOUND BY IT.

Signature of Participant ________________________________________________ Date ______________

Signature of Parent or Guardian If Participant Is a Minor, and by their signature they, on my behalf release all

claims that both they and I have. ________________________________________ Date ______________


MAY BIRTHDAYS!

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Kathy Richardson 5/6

Rosiemarie Cruz 5/21

Barbie Spatz 5/21

Jeanne-Marie Sinnot 5/24

Mike Zullo 5/25


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MAY 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 6 6

General Meeting

Ecco's Pizza

7 PM

7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Board Meeting

4644 Katella Ave.

Los Alamitos

7pm

SKIING

WEEKEND?

14 15 16 17 18 19Big White 20 Mothers’

Day

LBSC Annual

Dinner Dance 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

SKIING WEEKEND?

SKIING WEEKEND?

28 29 30 31

SKIING

WEEKEND? Memorial

Day


JUNE 2017

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 General Meeting

Ecco's Pizza

7 PM

SKIING WEEKEND?

11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Board Meeting

4644 Katella Ave.

Los Alamitos

7pm

Wine Tasting

Bistro St.

Germaine

Seal Beach 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

Fathers’

Day

First Day of

Summer

SKIING WEEKEND?

25 6 27 28 29 30

SKIING

WEEKEND?

Documents

SKI BREEZE January 2017 volume 78,issue 6 - Wild Apricot BREEZE-May2017v2.0.pdfLadies get out your best moo moo dress and men wear our best Aloha shirt. An attached flyer with details