May - June 2012 NEWS FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS Volume 52, No. 3

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Louisville To Host The OVSC Summit - June 1-3

Bike and golf season are here, and part of the Ohio Valley Ski Council Summit will include these outdoor ac-tivities. There also are dinners, parties, and ski-club related seminars. Speaking of the Sum-mit, the Summit is open to any Indy club member and you may bring your friends to the ac-tivities as well. Louisville will be hosting at the Seelbach Hilton and the cutoff date to get a preferred room rate of $109 per night is May 8. We encourage you to participate in as much of the weekend as you are able. The website with all the information can be found at

http://www.louisvilleskiclub.org/ovscsummit.html

Social Event - Concert Night Collective Soul

Live with the Atlanta Youth Orchestra

What: Concert showing. Wear your favorite concert tee shirt and bring your favorite beverage. We will have snacks. When: Saturday June 16, 7 pm. Where: The Boehm’s, 7048 Lavender Court How: RSVP to rjboehm@iquest.net or leave message at 317.881.7917

Show reviews: This live performance is stellar! Collective Soul with the Atlanta Youth Sym-

phony is amazing. Like most live performances, you have to put up with

some applause between songs, but well worth it to see this as it is one of

the best live shows you will ever see and hear. I absolutely love this DVD. I have played it over and over since I re-ceived it. I am a huge fan of Collective Soul to begin with but the addition of the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra makes this really remarkable. These kids are fabulous. I would recommend this DVD to anyone who likes music - period. Wow!!! One of the best concerts ever put on DVD. Very moving to say the least. Few bands can mix the tempo as well as this. You'll watch it over and over....

IN THIS ISSUE. Trip reports for Aspen, Breckenridge, Telluride, Steamboat… also…. Find out why Randy loves Europe in his Kitzbuhel report …. The beginnings of our summer social calendar. And the usual filler stuff because some folks didn’t make the editor’s deadline…… again!

Aspen Trip Report

By: Jean Ballinger

Aspen has long been my favorite place to ski, and this trip confirmed it once again. We had 40 skiers on this trip from 4 states, and some first-timers with the club, quite a diverse group.

We took an afternoon flight to Denver on Frontier, with a connection into Aspen. Unfortunately, Aspen was experiencing strong wind shear and planes couldn’t land. But after a few hours, we took off from Denver and were able to land in Aspen (translation: late and rough ride into Aspen). Lo-cated at the edge of town, the club has stayed at The Gant before. Everyone agreed that it’s a great location with helpful staff and wonderful amenities, like the van that will take you anywhere in town.

The weather was sunny our first 2 days, then the snow arrived and kept the slopes in great condition. One day we had a foot of new snow.

Most of the group started the week skiing at Aspen Mountain on Sunday. The Gant provided an après ski welcome wine and cheese party with such won-derful hors d’oeuvres that no dinner was needed.

The group skied at Snowmass the next several days, followed by après ski at Base Camp.

Our BBQ dinner at Hickory House on Tuesday was served family style, providing plenty of food for hun-gry skiers! Afterwards, many discovered “Aspen Crud” at the J Bar in the Hotel Jerome.

Wednesday was Aspen Highlands day where the brave (or foolish) took a free Highland Bowl tour.

Thursday was “ski, shop or relax” day. Après ski was at Mezzaluna, where we enjoyed happy hour drinks and pizza. We also celebrated two birthdays – Marilyn Rader & Sue Johnson. We finished off the week at Snowmass with great snow. A number of people partied into the wee hours to help Sue celebrate her birthday.

Aspen is a wonderful ski town with 4 mountains to ski, lots of restaurants, and shopping. The end-of-season sales had-n’t started yet, but that didn’t deter this group of power shoppers!

Due to our problems flying into Aspen, our group took a bus back to Denver, guaranteeing that they would make the flight back to Indy. This made almost everyone extremely happy.

This was a fantastic trip with wonderful people. Thanks to everyone for being great! I also want to thank Priscilla John-son for assuming trip leader responsibilities for the travel portion of the trip,…(I was traveling from Texas)

January 7 – 14 Taos NM Jim Robinson

Jan 7 LEARN TO SKI DAY –

Marilyn Rader

Jan 28 – Feb 4 Vail CO Richard Rader

Feb 4 – 11 Lake Tahoe CANCELLED

Feb 24, 25, 26 Boyne Highlands

Indiana Ski Council Paul Wood

Feb 25 – Mar 3 Snowmass/Aspen

Jean Ballinger

Mar 3 – 10 Steamboat CO Dick Surber

March 9 – 17 Kitzbuhel, AUSTRIA

Randy Ridgway

Mar 17 – 24 Mammoth CA CANCELLED

Mar 24 – 31 Telluride CO

Priscilla Johnson

Mar 31 – Apr 4 Breckenridge CO

Sarah Payton

Thanks to our 2012 trip leadersThanks to our 2012 trip leadersThanks to our 2012 trip leadersThanks to our 2012 trip leaders

Latest info is always on the club website www.indyskiclub.org

The new hip works, Bry skis again

ASPEN

STEAMBOAT

Steamboat Colorado - 3/3/12 Thru 3/10/12

On February 7, Steamboat had a small snow base, and I was worried about the snow conditions we would find on March 3. It started to snow on February 8 and 103 inches of new snow had fallen by our arrival on March 3. The snow conditions on our first day of skiing were wonderful. This kind of luck followed us throughout our trip. The planes were on time, the buses were on time and the weather on our 6 days of skiing was mostly warm and sunny.

Forty people joined in on this trip, and a fine bunch they were. We had new members, old members and in-betweeners Let’s take a look at the various aspects of the trip.

Lodging Most of us prefer ski-in/ski-out, but The Ranch at Steamboat is the next best thing. Their shuttle service was fabulous, and I don’t use that word very often. It was door to door, fast and timely to the slopes. At non-ski times it was sometimes at your door before you could get downstairs after calling for a pickup. The condo common areas were large and comfortable. There were as many baths as bedrooms; the master suite and a second bedroom in the 3 bedroom condos were both acceptably large. The third bedroom in the 3 bedroom condos received several complaints for being too small. Many of the condos had great views of both the Yampa valley and the ski slopes. There were 3 hot tubs and an outdoor heated pool. We had one incident where the condo management didn’t understand the bedding in one 3 bedroom and this did cause some consternation. Hopefully their ears are burning and that won’t happen again.

Slopes and Snow There are 165 runs and certainly a lot of different runs for all levels of skier. The snow on the first day was great, and we had enough snow all week long. Temperatures every day went above 32 degrees and a couple went into the 50s. So by mid-week, the slopes tended to be icy starting out, then perfect for an hour or two and then slush by mid afternoon at lower elevations. We were all hoping for snow midweek, but predictions didn’t happen. All in all though, it was a very pleasant time for skiing.

Kara Benson put together a NASTAR racing event on Thursday and about 12 people took part. Thanks Kara.

We had 3 people who for various reasons choose not to ski, but they didn’t just sit around. Claudia Bossard, Rita Burroughs and Mary Segasser snow shoed on the mountain most every day and joined the skiers for lunch at Thunderhead on several days.

The Lessons Joe Summers, one of our club’s PSIA certified instructors, lives 90 miles from Steamboat in Silverthorne, CO. Joe wasn’t on the trip, but volunteered to come up on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to teach. Sixteen people signed up for lessons. He gave begin-ning lessons to Corrine Kabat, Linda Obrien, Fred Feldaverd Jim Henderson and Deb Zaklow and intermediate lessons to Mei-Hsin Kuo, Hanna Hallam and Rudy Osenbaugh. He gave Mogul lessons to advanced skiers like Phil Buehler and Ed Kabat, and lessons on skiing crud to Susan Neves and Cindy Baker, and he also gave general lessons to advanced skiers like Bob Burroughs and Martin Dadel. This was a wonderful service by Joe to the people on this trip and it was much appreciated. Jerry Baker, another of our club’s PSIA certified instructors, was on the trip and he took some of his personal time to give lessons and advice to several people on the trip. Thanks to Joe and Jerry for their work.

Get-to-gethers The Ranch didn’t offer a welcome party, but they did allow us to use a very nice conference room for free. This allowed us to put on our own BYOB welcome party. Lois and I purchased cheese, crackers, chips, salsa, and salami. Our condo mates helped transfer it to the conference room and prepare it for the party, attended by 38 of our 40 people. We had a talk by a Steamboat repre-sentative and a presentation on the famous Strawberry Park Hot Springs.

Our pizza party was at Rex’s Champagne Room at the Holiday Inn. The Ranch shuttled all 40 of our people to the event. The salad was great and Rex’s provided us with their gourmet pizzas plus a number of other popular pizza favorites. The party left everyone full and happy.

Après ski happened outside at the Slopeside bar and the Bear River Grill. The sun was shining, the music was live and the beer was good. Ours was a sociable bunch. Several condo parties took place during the week which included dinners and/or cards.

Downtown was 10 minutes away by shuttle and everyone took advantage of enjoying one or more of the 70 restaurants and bars sometime during the week. Of course Kay Anderson was looking for places to dance, and she does a great job of finding them and getting people out on the dance floor.

Cindy and Jerry Baker hosted a “clean out the refrigerator” dinner on Friday night. About 25 people came and brought food and drink. It was amazing. The food was great and every one had plenty. It did help that Chris Nash cooked a wonderful frittata also out of left-overs just for the party. This was a great idea and I highly recommend it on future trips.

The People This was a great group. We had some newcomers: Jim Henderson and his wife Deb Zaklow from Greenville SC (Susan Neves’ son and daughter-in-law), Mike Tumey, who had not been on a trip for long time, brought his 24 year old daughter Kelsey for the first time. Kelsey is an aggressive boarder, so, with Patrick Swickheimer, we had two boarders. Yeah!! Others joining their first trip were Ed and Corrine Kabat, Linda O’Brien, Chris Nash and Robert Whitaker. We hope to see you all on future trips.

Several people drove out to take advantage of one or more Indy Ski trips, iincluding Loren Rasmussen, Dave Adair and Jim Guerrettaz, who have done this for several years. Other drivers included Don Birt with Paul Segasser and Rita and Bob Burroughs.

Steve Airo was the unfortunate soul on our trip. He was badly affected by the altitude and didn’t ski and yet every time I saw him, I had to ask myself, why is this man always smiling?

Others on the trip were David Harrison and Beverly Sievers, Brian Merrill, Dave Bossard, Dick Verhulst, Mike Campbell and the almost always happy Joe Hankins, each of which brought their own type of joy to the rest of us.

Thanks to all of you for making it a great time. Hope to see you on a club trip next year. Dick Surber, trip leader

View from the Sky 1001 Chairs in 101 Days

To be honest, it was a bit more than 101 days and much more than 1001 chairs, and a handful of those were tram rides. But it wasn’t 1001 lifts that I was shooting for, it was making 101 days of skiing this season. You see, Cathy’s Grandma Drook is 101 years old, and I had already skied my age (did that last year plus a few more days) so I decided to shoot for Grandma’s age. Sharp as a tack and living alone, she’s a hoot... and she’d love it!

Skiing your age is NOT like shooting your age in golf. In golf, each year you are another year older, but you also get an extra stroke, so fair-to-middlin’ golfers might actually shoot their age when they’re 80 or so, and those golf-ers might again shoot their age when they are older still. In skiing, each year you wait to ski your age decreases your chance of doing it; at least that’s the way it is for us Medicare recipients. It’s a twist on Warren Miller’s statement “Do it now, because if you wait you’ll be another year older when you do it”. I figured if I waited another year, I’d have to aim for 102 days, and I’d be another year older myself. At the rate this beat-up body is going downhill (pun intended) skiing 102 days next year could be tough.

In retrospect I should have sent Grandma a birthday card instead. After about 80 days, and with fewer days of winter powder and more spring slush, there were days when I wanted to stay in bed. But a commitment is a commitment. On a day when skiing was slushy, or lift lines were over 30 seconds long, I made a token appearance. On those days, skiing was almost like a job. But there were plenty of Montana powder days to embed in my memory.

Most of us Indy Clubbers will never get the chance to ski our age (unless we are in our 20s or 30s). One of these days that won’t be possible for me (and we can get to the slopes n 15 minutes), but this ski season I did manage 107 days on the snow.

It gives Grandma Drook something to shoot for.

Think BIG snow (for 2013!) ……… Mel

May 10, 2012 after work - Thursday Thirst at Scotty's - downtown 1 Virginia Avenue

Come join your fellow Indy Ski Club members for a drink to wind down the work week...and get geared up for warm weather! If it’s warm and sunny look for us outside.

May 19 - Indy 500 Pole Day - ISC hangs out at IMS. RSVP to Lisa to coordinate time and place.

May 23, 6 pm, Board and committee chair transition dinner—Milano Inn Dinner pro-vided for incoming/outgoing board and chairs. Any club member is welcome (buy your own drinks)

June 16, 2012 -- Concert Night-- Collective Soul, Live with AYO - at Russ Boehm's . Concert showing on DVD--Collective Soul, live with Atlanta Youth Orchestra...wear your favorite concert t-shirt and bring your favorite beverage. Snacks provided by the Boehm's. Please contact: Russ Boehm, 317-881-7917, rjboehm@iquest.net See ad

June 21 after work - Thursday Thirst at Rick’s Boatyard on Eagle Creek Reservoir

Saturday June 30 - 7 pm - Symphony on the Prairie the Music of Queen with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Show starts at 8. Contact Lisa danasin2@yahoo.com

Bicycling - Suzie Carlson is again organizing pitch-in breakfast or BBQ bike rides for club members and friends this summer. Con-

tact her at Suzsold@aol.com to get on her mailing list or to host a ride. See the May-June schedule in this issue.

July 27 Friday evening - Movies at IMA, Dr No (the first James Bond film)

Saturday August 11 - Annual club picnic at Indpls Sailing Club. More info in next Boomer

POTENTIAL Social Activities:

Lisa is looking for an ardent basketball fan to organize a game (Pacers? Butler?) for next season.

Indians Game? It’s not much work to call the Indians box office to set aside a block of seats for a particular night game. Maybe against the Mud Hens? Or the Bats? Volunteers?

GOLF - We’ve traditionally held our golf outing in September when there’s less competition for start times. But maybe June or July would attract more interest. Feedback? Volunteer to organize?

KAYAK on White River? Rent from Rusted Moon, maybe after work… volunteer?

YOUR 2012-2013 OFFICERS…. It’s a game of musical chairs, but we’re short a player….. We need someone to serve as President-Elect (meaning they will be president the following year). See the officer roster on the last page (above the calendar… bet you knew it was there all along)

SOCIALLY SPEAKING SOCIALLY SPEAKING SOCIALLY SPEAKING SOCIALLY SPEAKING

Contact : Lisa Sindelar danasin2@yahoo.com 709-5231 FOR MORE INFO OR TO VOLUNTEER Club members and guests are always welcome. Thursday Thirsts are cash bar events.

KKKKRUIZIN IN KITZBUHELRUIZIN IN KITZBUHELRUIZIN IN KITZBUHELRUIZIN IN KITZBUHEL

Okay, I’ll admit I have an addiction to all things European. The Alps, the Mediterranean and its beaches, the varied lan-guages and cultures, the cuisine, biking, hiking, and of course, skiing. I have one favorite week of the year. It’s the week I get to go to Europe to ski. And fortunately, my wife Eileen is as addicted to the whole European thing as much as I. For us, Kitzbuhel Austria would be our sixteenth fix for this addiction.

Strangely enough, our trip began one evening last April when Paul Wood opened his third bottle of red wine. The wine spoke to Paul and said we should all go to Austria this year. In response, my Coke said, OK let’s go to Kitzbuhel.

So, nineteen of us, all of whom had skied in Europe previously (closet Euro-addicts) flew overnight via Atlanta to Munich to begin our adventure. Our flight arrived ahead of schedule in Munich, and as luck would have it our Luftner charter bus did not! But after only fifteen minutes, our generously-pierced driver, Gerhard, and bus arrived. The morning was sunny and the scenic two-hour plus bus ride was comfortable as we left Bavaria and entered the Tyrolean alps. Our destination was the Hotel Strasshofer in Kitzbuhel’s “old-town.” It turned out that the bus was taller than the arched gate of the walled “old-town”. So, the bus parked outside the famous Londoner Pub, and we unceremoniously towed our luggage to the Hotel. My sixth sense perceived mutinous thoughts, but nary an unkind word was spoken….. No doubt just thought.

Then, surprise! Though it was before noon, our rooms were ready for us at the Strasshofer. We were prepared for the fact the hotel had no elevator, and our rooms were on three upper levels, but we were relieved when the staff delivered our bags to our rooms. The hotel is authentically Tyrolean in décor. Herr Strasshofer told us one evening that the building itself has been in his family for over three hundred years. The hotel opened in 1903, and he is the third generation to operate the ho-tel. His son the chef is a culinary school graduate.

Mike Buis and Mike Wier, who departed a few days before the group to explore Germany, soon arrived by train. Everyone took some time to unpack and freshen up, and then we went out for lunch. The afternoon was spent purchasing lift tickets (only $50/day), riding and figuring out the ski shuttle bus, visiting the train station, and renting our skis. At 7 pm we met in the hotel’s dining room for a dinner of traditional Austrian wiener schnitzel. Our group was assigned three large tables. This arrangement provided us the opportunity to visit and converse throughout the week and get better acquainted with one an-other. This sets the European ski experience apart as you always have someone to enjoy dinner with, and you don’t have to go out and hunt down a restaurant that everyone in your group can agree on, and then hope the restaurant can seat you.

Suffering jet-lag with a six hour time difference, it didn’t take long after dinner for to head to our rooms to sleep!

Sunday morning began as it would every morning with a breakfast buffet at 7:30 am. We were greeted with hot scrambled eggs, bread, meats, cereal, fruit, juice, and coffee. After breakfast, everyone headed to the Hahnenkammbahn, the moun-tain gondola that delivers you right to start house of the famed Hahnenkamm downhill. Dave Zoelle discovered someone had pinched his Kastle rental skis, but the perpetrator turned out to be John Oberlies who also had rented Kastle skis! Once the boys got their skis straight we were off into the fog and mist to ski. As is usually the case, the fog and clouds were thick-est at the higher elevations and visibility improved as we headed down the pistes. John Triller found out the physiological effects of dehydration - when the tank is empty the muscles don’t work. Our group gathered at the Ochsalm restaurant for lunch, one of 57 restaurants on the mountain. This fact alone should give you some idea just how enormous this ski area is. After lunch we headed back up into the clouds and fog. At the end of the day, as we were skiing back to Kitzbuhel, we set out to find the infamous chapel-bar for an apres-ski drink. There is a new restaurant on the site called the Einseidelei. The chapel is still there but it no longer offers either beverages or blessings. What a first day!

It’s nice to wake up on Monday morning, without a care in the world, and lay in bed thinking, “Where do I want to ski today?” Our Kitzbuheler Alpen Skipass was good at ten different ski areas in the Kitzbuhel region. So a group of us exited out the back door of the hotel and descended the steps to catch a regional ski bus headed for Jochberg. From Jochberg, we skied south to Pass Thurn and Breitmoos. We even caught some corduroy and sunshine – at the same time. At the end of the day we visited another bar at the base of Jochberg for apres-ski. A certain Columbian waitress kept the boys entertained.

Tuesday was a day of exploration with another adventure that led us to Zell am See. We had reserved our own bus for the trip and enjoyed our first day of dawn to dusk sunshine. In addition to skiing, Zell am See is a great lakeside town to wan-der, shop, and have a leisurely lunch.

On Wednesday the troops scattered. Paul, Bette, Malcolm, Heather, John T and Shirley took a train to Salzburg. There was a group of who took a regional ski bus to Brixen im Thale to ski the SkiVelt Wilder Kaiser. This is another humongous ski area that overlooks the Wilder Kaiser mountains. Our travels took us to Hochbrixen, Hohe Salve, Rigi, Hochsoll, Zinsberg, Eiberg, Brandstadl. On the way to lunch at Hartkaiser we lost Rusty Stefanak, who had gotten caught up in some deep wet snow and had a twisting fall that resulted in a spiral fracture of his tibia just above the ankle. Rusty was taken by a four-treaded SUV to the funicular for a ride down to Ellmau, then by ambulance to the St. Johann hospital for the next two nights.

Thursday was time to check out the Hahnenkamm downhill race course. The first big descent is on the Mausefalle. After a hard left, and a quick right, you catch huge air onto the Steilhang. At the bottom approaching Mach 2, the mountain falls away to your left, but the course funnels hard right into the tight and narrow Bruckenschuss. You have a few seconds to catch your breath here while in an 80 mph tuck. Your world falls away at Alte Schniese. The Seidlalm is a blur on your left. Another high speed tuck through Larchenschuss, and more huge air at Zielschuss leads you to the Streif finish line. Now

that wasn’t so bad. Just change your shorts and have a couple schnapps. We took twenty minutes to do what world cup skiers do in just a tad over two minutes.

Now for some fun skiing. There is a unique gondola-tram called the S3-Bahn that connects Kitzbuhel to Jochberg. It must be over 2000 meters in length. Each gondola holds about 35 people. If you collect lifts, put this one on your bucket list. We enjoyed some great cruisers on the Jochberg side, and Steve Hoover amused Noli Bentley by attempting to roof-ski. Didn’t quite go as he planned. We had a late sundeck lunch at the Bruggeralm restaurant. Eileen had befriended the ma-tronly proprietor who treated us to free schnapps. She even had a foot-shaped wooden schapps tray that had holes to hold the shot glasses. Upon our return to the Kitzbuhel side, Mike King, Joe Deppen, Kent Kitchel and I made an after-noon run back down the Hahnenkammrennen just to have an apres-ski drink at the Streifalm restaurant at the finish area. An iPhone video was made of Mike demonstrating the proper technique of hands-free Jaeger-shooting. Randy narrated and Joe called the play-by-play with music in the background. This was just a hoot, but Mike thought we were having fun at his expense – not so. Sorry, you just had to be there. Absolutely priceless.

Meanwhile, over on the Kitzbuhel Horn (the pointed mountain) Dave Zoelle was helping Heather with a ski lesson when she fell and tore two knee ligaments. Undaunted, Heather says she’ll be ready for next year.

The hotel had a Thursday night fresh market-day dinner that was just outstanding. After dinner, Joe took a group pub-hopping to an Irish pub and the infamous Londoner.

Friday would be our last ski day. It seems everyone had been adventured-out. Only Kent was willing to follow the trip leader to ski at Choralpe, Westendorf, and Gampenkogel. Most everyone else skied at Kitzbuhel. Bill Ihrer was adventur-ous and took a private mogul lesson. Friday turned out to be the warmest day of the week and all the cafes had tables and chairs out on the sidewalks. It made for a great time to shop and people watch. Rusty returned from the hospital and had dinner with us.

On Saturday we got out of bed at 3 am. The hotel had prepared breakfast bags for us, and Herr Strasshofer brewed cof-fee. Rusty and the Herr had bonded over German Shepherd dogs, and thus Herr Strasshofer took Rusty in his truck to the bus pick up outside the Londoner. This was another spectacle as we Yanks are carting our luggage over the cobble-stones and drunken Brits are pouring out of the Londoner, each group looking pitifully upon the other! Now our problem is…. the bus ain’t there. Herr Strasshofer calls the bus company and finds out that the driver has f***ing overslept (his words). But soon, bus and group are united and we enjoy an uneventful trip home. And so, on March 17 we arrive in Indi-anapolis where it is 80 balmy degrees.

We missed Sue McNiel, who could not go on the trip due to a broken arm that happened two weeks earlier. This was our first European ski trip without her. For the record, Rusty has made about 30 trips, and Mike Buis about 20 trips. Like me, they’re addicted and proud of it.

What makes a European ski trip special? No two are alike. Every day is an adventure. Our skis take us places the guide books don’t even talk about. And, having breakfast and dinner everyday as a group promotes friendship. You really get to know everybody on the trip. It’s called bonding. After all, we’re just a bunch of ski bums. And I can’t wait until next year.

Auf wienerschnitzel,…………………..Rockin’ Randal, Trip Concierge

The Prez Speaks… (by Lisa Sindelar) Mother Nature may not have provided record snowfalls that make a skier or rider giddy, but the Indianapolis Ski Club made the most of another wonderful ski season.

The 2011-2012 club year has ended and the club had eight trips with 199 participants. A huge thank you to Priscilla Johnson and all the trip leaders for volunteering their time to make it a great trip season—they rocked it again this year! And, for those that could not join us on any of the trips, we hope you sign up this coming year. Dick Surber is busy reviewing dates, places, and pricing…so watch the website for more details later this summer.

Socially, we kept to a routine of Thursday Thirsts and Groovin’ in the Garden, but also added a few new events, such as movie night at the IMA and Christmas Carol at IRT. We will continue to explore other op-tions, but please let us know if you have any other great ideas for social events.

As a board, we continue to explore and discuss ways to market the club to new members. If you haven’t up-dated your wardrobe recently, then you need to visit our easy, on-line ski rack with Colored Threads of Indi-anapolis. Check out the big red “let’s go shopping” button at the bottom of the home page of the ISC website and order a new t-shirt. Also “like” the Indy Ski Club Facebook page and post pictures of your trips. But continue to do what you do best—tell everyone you know or meet about our club and tell them to check out our website! Continue to spread the word…

I also want to acknowledge the hard work of the board and committee members during the year—Richard Rader as Treasurer, Marilyn Rader as Membership, Lois Surber as Secretary, Dick Surber as VP Elect-Trips, Priscilla Johnson-VP of Trips, Joan Naffziger-OVSC Rep, Ray Battey—Finance, Mel Crichton—Boomer, Martha Heinrich—Web Master, Russ Boehm—Racing, Eileen Ridgeway—Ski Rack, Shawn Ansari and the instructors. THANK YOU for your help and especially for guiding me during my first year as President.

The next transitional board meeting is May 23rd at 6 pm at the Milano Inn; all club members are wel-come—just RSVP to me at danasin2@yahoo.com . It’s a great opportunity for you to give your input to the board on the next club year.

Have a great summer and hope to see you at some of the events, if not before the Summer Picnic on August 11th.

See ya soon, Lisa Aspen got SNOW !!!! (Few trips were so lucky this year)

TellurRiders of the Purple Sage… and Slush

Clockwise from top left:

A couple of cute kids on the Breck trip

Aspen trippers warm themselves while out on the town

A familiar perspective on Bryan… Mr. APRES-SKI

Below - Tellu -Riders of the Purple Slush.

Left - Rusty hitches a ride in Kitzbuhel

Another wise purchase in Breckenridge?

Breckenridge – Spring Break March 31- April 7 Sarah Payton – Trip Leader

Of our 29 Breckenridge trip participants, fourteen were new members of the club! We welcomed Bob Swisshelm and his grown son Andrew, Pike HS teacher Amanda Fleming, Chris Johnson and his family (returning ISC members), the five La-Fargue’s (a Lilly family transferred from France) and Susan and Mark Sachs. We had 8 children age 12 and under attend-ing and one 15 yr old. The entire group is excited about next year and traveling with Indy Ski Club again!

All our group arrived at the Indianapolis International Airport by 6:15AM, and I was able to check all of then off the list as we got through security to our gate. Then quick introductions and we were off.

The flight was smooth, arriving in Denver airport with only a minor glitch. With only a 15 minute delay at luggage claim as a member reunited with a carry-on bag left on the train, we loaded the bus to Breckenridge.

Our bus driver, Greg, was very knowledgeable about Colorado, its history, and stories including the “Sleeper” house we passed on our way west. He stopped the bus for an up close visit with a “pure” bison herd where we learned there are only 3 herds in the US that are 100% pure bison with no cattle DNA. We heard a history of the tunnels and the railroad and a caution on high altitude - drinking water and the effects of alcohol were all covered during our quest west. After a quick one hour stop at Applejacks and grocery store, we were off for the final destination - Pine Ridge condos in Breckenridge, CO.

We checked in at Pine Ridge, with 2 condos that were not available. All of the units were near each other. Ski passes were passed out with a reminder of the Tuesday evening Pizza party. Most of us spent the afternoon arranging ski rentals and watching the Final Four basketball games.

Skiing was great, although conditions were poor. There just wasn’t much snow. That being said, everyone used their 5 day pass, with one member purchasing an additional day and others trading around if they had a scheduled day off, so we used all the days available. Three of the kiddos attended ski school for 3 days. In the future, we could look into the ski school arrangement, as the kids’ ski school comes with a lift pass and therefore, if you know you are doing a 2-day school, you might need to purchase only a 3 day pass with the club.

Our pizza party was held at Taddieo’s, an Italian eatery in the village of Breckenridge. Arrangements were made in ad-vance with the restaurant, and we had 10+ pizza’s, some specialty salads, water and soda all included in the trip price. Al-cohol or additional food was on individuals’ tabs. I found it to be SO easy to arrange a restaurant in advance and not have to pay for a meeting room, coordinate the delivery of pizzas, purchase drinks in advance, etc. We were told that the res-taurants appreciate early seating groups they can count on in the less-busy mid-week.

Each club member also received a $10 voucher for lunch on mountain at a Vail-owned restaurant.

Many of the group knew each other or were families traveling and skiing together. Lunches were set for on-mountain loca-tions, but due to snow conditions, ski ability and timing, most never made it to the specified location.

At the end of the week we said goodbye to our excellent concierge Chris at Breckenridge Sports, who provided overnight lockers. We were packed and out of Pine Ridge by 10 AM, had a few hours to tour the town of Breckenridge and boarded the bus at 1 PM. With all accounted for, our descent to Denver began. Another excellent bus ride allowed plenty of waiting time at Denver International Airport prior to our evening flight. We boarded early and returned to Indy 20 minutes ahead of schedule.

Sunday May 6th-9 am start-Breakfast pitch in ride. Mike and Michele Chiapetta-Greenwood, east of I65 off Main Street. 173 POSSUM HOLLOW RD GREENWOOD 46143 (No joke! There

really is a road named Possum Hollow!) Mostly flat, less traveled. This ride will be at least 15 miles with two options for longer rides. Usually a bit of a wind out there. Nice open scenery! Michele's cell is 439-1677

Sunday, May 20-9 am start-Bryan Smith's & Christy's Flat and Cultural ride. Starts at Bry's house at 6170 N Carroll-ton in Broad Ripple. Will go downtown and meander back. Bring a change of clothes and plan on spending some time at the Broad Ripple Art Fair following the ride! May also be a pitch in - details to follow. Bryan's number 507-9909.

Sunday June 3 8 am Pitch in breakfast ride. Paul and Mary K Segasser 3881 S Woodfield Dr, New Palestine IN 46163 861-8072. Not as far out as it sounds and the roads are nice here! More rolling than earlier rides but easy terrain.

Sunday June 10 8 am start - Dave & Claudia Bossard's Pitch in Breakfast ride. FANTASTIC ROAD HERE! Yes it's a drive to get here (not too far south of Bargersville) but you can actually ride and talk to your friends! Plan on hanging out a bit afterward and enjoying the countryside! 5521 W 100 South, Bargersville, 46106. 422-8002

Saturday June 30-4 pm start - an afternoon ride with a pitch in dinner! Back to Mike and Michele Chiapetta's house 173 POSSUM HOLLOW RD GREENWOOD 46143. This ride will be longer, possibly including a 40 miler for the more energetic riders. Could be a bit faster pace on the longer route. Plan on bringing a suit as the pool should be ready by then. BYOB and a dish to share. Michele's cell is 439-1677

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May-June BIRTHDAYS Fred Zilke 5/1 Rudolf Hoellein 5/1 Ronald Dillon 5/1 John Auzins 5/4 Joan Naffziger 5/5 Sue McNiel 5/14 Lisa Sindelar 5/16 John Nepsa 5/16 Ray Battey 5/17 Charlie Grant 5/17 Bill Maxwell 5/18 Tim Gossweiler 5/19 Amanda Fleming 5/20

John Craig 5/23 Kelsey Tumey 5/23 Joe Summers 5/24 Steven Pyles 5/29 Richard Rader 6/4 Karen Krach 6/4 Sarah Payton 6/5 Bryan Smith 6/6 Chuck Rossen 6/8 Joe Smith 6/8 Cherie Sinkovic 6/12 Christopher Nash 6/14 Joan Alfred 6/15

Michael Buis 6/16 James Hilt 6/17 Sarah Darlington 6/18 Dana Sindelar 6/19 Christy Sharp 6/20 Nora Woodman 6/23 Phil Buehler 6/24 Klaus Seibert 6/25 Lynn Lawless 6/25 Judy Birt 6/29 John Stobaugh 6/29 Bob Corya 6/29

A Terrific Time in Telluride, Colorado!

Our hale and hardy group of 30 went east to go west by flying Delta to Atlanta with a connection to Montrose in Colorado. The San Juan Mountains beckoned, and we were enthralled with the fabulous views! We passed the million dollar fence that stretched for 7 miles on the property of Ralph Lauren as we motored into the old mining town and the “box canyon” that we would call home for a week.

The Mountain Lodge made us welcome, and all settled in to enjoy the ski week. On Sunday evening after our first day of skiing, Winter Ski and Sport hosted a wonderful wine and cheese party in The View in the restaurant of our lodging. We were greeted and welcomed and informed that, since the lifts did not open until 10 am, we should instead have a second cup of coffee and wait until snow conditions softened.

All the skiers enjoyed the terrain, and each found his or her own special challenge. The snow was not perfect, but we had a great time throughout the week. Snow was hard packed early in the morning and then slushy in the later afternoon but with blue skies, sunshine, and favorable temperatures.

Lots of choices of slopes presented views that were breathtaking in all directions; we were fascinated by the “air craft car-rier” sized runway at Telluride airport and grateful that we had not flown into it. “See Forever” was an aptly named run where “Cat Woman” streaked by at high speeds often!

Telluride, the town, is an interesting old mining town with a wonderful variety of restaurants and small shops. Staying in the mountain village gave ski club members the opportunity for ski in/out options with an interesting selection of restaurants and access to the town from the gondola.

Our pizza party at The Crazy Elk was a great gathering, and we were serenaded with “beer hall” songs by our six German friends. The hot tub at the Lodge was well-used and eased the aches and pains cre-ated by the day’s skiing. All in all, it was another wonderful Indianapo-lis Ski Club trip!!

Priscilla Johnson, Trip Leader

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