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Welcome
to the San Francisco
Ski Club!

John Walsh at the Keystone Nationals, Dec. 2007, on the cover of the Mar.-Apr. 2008 National Ski Club Newsletter! For a larger version, click here.

Greetings. The San Francisco Ski Club is a ski, snowboard, and social organization for single adults over 21. We are a non-profit, all-volunteer club dedicated to the enjoyment of winter sports and year-around social activities. Founded in 1967, we offer the sports-oriented opportunities to join in recreational activities in a relaxed and sociable atmosphere. (Member, Singles League, Bay Area Council of Ski Clubs, and Far West Ski Association.)

Click HERE for the Spring 2008 Mammoth photos, HERE for race team photos, and HERE for other photos.

(A few of the items available here: Weekend Ski Trip Checklist, Northstar snow cam, our e-mail lists, lead an event, and much more!)

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Reserve by 5:00 p.m., Wed., Jan. 20!
Tahoe Weekend Ski Package
the Weekend of February 5-7
Including Transportation and Lodging

Attention SF Ski Club members

How would you like to spend two days skiing at Tahoe and not have to worry about driving there or schlepping through ski area parking lots? We’ve negotiated a ski weekend package deal for Feb 5-7 for SF Ski Club members, including round trip transportation, lodging, and lift tickets. We can only accommodate 6-8 people, so please RSVP by email to Keiko Hsu before Wednesday, January 20^th. Don’t miss out! ACT NOW. See details below:

DATES: February 5-7, 2010. We depart at 5:00pm on Friday Feb 5^th from San Francisco (16^th St near DeHaro St … free parking there), and return Sunday evening Feb 7^th

SKIING: Northstar (Sat Feb 6^th) and Alpine Meadows (Sun Feb 7^th)

LODGING: A Tahoe Donner ski house with 4-bedrooms, 3-bathrooms, open floor plan, high ceilings, hot tub, and ping-pong table. Sleeps 8 people.

TRANSPORTATION: We will be driven by a dedicated driver in a modified 15-passenger van equipped with 10 captain chairs, video monitor, roof racks for gear, and plenty of room for luggage. The driver will drive us to the ski areas on Saturday/Sunday and to restaurants for dinner Friday/Saturday.

PRICE: Special price for SF Ski Club members: $314 per person, including transportation, 2-nights lodging, 2 days lift tickets, afternoon snacks. (Additional discounts available for seniors 65 or older.)

DEADLINES: RSVP before 5pm Wednesday Jan. 20^th by email to keiko.hsu@comcast.net. Mail your check made payable to “Bay Area Ski Bus” to Keiko Hsu, 152 Lombard St #704, San Francisco, CA 94111 before Friday Jan. 22^nd.

ANY QUESTIONS? Contact Keiko at 415-738-2313 or by email to keiko.hsu@comcast.net.

Reserve no later than Mon., Jan. 25!
Tiziano's Restaurant
Sunday, January 31, 2010
5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Join us for Sunday evening get together at Tiziano's Restaurant 1801 Clement Street (at 19th Avenue) San Francisco, CA (415) 422-0502.

Sunday, January 31, 2010 5 pm to 7:30 pm

Cost: $26.00

Special Dinner includes:
Choice of Soup or Salad and
Choice of Chicken, Vegetarian Penne Pasta Dish, Pork Marsala or Roast Salmon and
Choice of Cheesecake, Creme Brulee or Ice Cream.

Beverages are not included. If you want to bring your own bottle of wine the corkage fee is $10.00.

Please RSVP to Cathy no later than Monday, January 25. If you have questions, please contact her at Bonjour47@prodigy.net.

Space is limited. Hope you can join us!

FWSALOGO Jan. 30-Feb. 6:
Far West Ski Assoc. Ski Week,
Keystone, Colorado

For full information contact:

Paula Kinahon
Bay Area Snow Sports Council
Travel Director
Daytime phone: 415-983-7145
Evening/Weekend: phone: 510-357-6127
15447 Heron Drive
San Leandro, CA 94579
pkinahon@gmail.com

Price includes:
* Interchangeable Lift Ticket: Keystone/Breckenridge/Vail/Beaver Creek/Arapahoe Basin.
* 7 nights lodging (double occupancy).
* FWSA amenity package.

*Price does NOT include air or ground transportation.

* Keystone Resort Lodging for BAC (availability subject to change):

Inn at Keystone Hotel Room (2/unit) $1,170 pp
River Run Village 1 BR/1 BA Condo (2/unit) $1,410 pp
River Run Village 2 BR/2 BA Condo (4/unit) $1,105 pp
River Run Village 3 BR/2 BA Condo (6/unit) $1,050 pp
Lakeside Village 1 BR/1 BA Condo (2/unit) $1,320 pp
Lakeside Village 2 BR/2 BA Condo (4/unit) $1,040 pp
Keystone Lodge Hotel Room (2/unit) $1,315 pp

Lodging upgrades and single supplements may be available. NOTE: Children are allowed at the FWSA Ski Week with certain restrictions. Contact Linda Hennings for details.

FWSA Amenity package includes:

Registration, Welcome Party, Pub Crawl, Council Night Party, 3 Races, Mountain Picnic, Ski Week Banquet, Après Awards Party, 5 of 7 days Lift Ticket.

(FWSA amenities packages will NOT be sold separately.)

Must be Member of BAC (CST #2050870) or Direct Member of Far West Ski Assoc. (CST #2036983).

Sunday, Jan. 31:
Surf Music Extravaganza 4:
Big Wave Season
At the Notorious Milk Bar

Milk Bar San Francisco is hosting Surf Music Extravaganza 4: Big Wave Season, a continuation of San Francisco's surf music party themed events. Extravaganza 4: Big Wave Season brings you three dynamic high energy instrumental combos. This edition features music from the Blue Moodys, the Reefriders (featuring our own Bruce Brewington!), and the twang tens, as well as DJ Surfer Spud from Drifting Sand spinning discs in between sets. Come down and celebrate a bit of this winter's Big Wave Season and sit back and groove on some of today's biggest surfin' sounds with beer specials and surf movies from surfing's golden era all day long.

Sunday, January 31, 2010
3:00 PM
Milk Bar
1840 Haight Street (at Stanyan)
San Francisco, CA 94167

www.myspace.com/thetwangtens
www.myspace.com/thebluemoodys
www.myspace/thereefriders

Contact: Bruce Brewington, BBrewington2@comcast.net.

Each Wednesday:
Rich and The Barbary Coast Allstars
At Blondie's Bar & No Grill

Every Wednesday night, "The Barbary Coast Allstars" play at Blondie's Bar & No Grill, located on 540 Valencia Street near 16th Street in the in heart of the happening Mission District. Music starts at 7:30 PM and goes until 1:00 AM. The band members are: Mike Fleming- guitar, vocals; AJ Tucker- Everything!! Rich Alpert, Guitar, bass, drums, vocals; Dean Leto- drums; Jeff Hueston- bass. It's a good-time rockin' band that plays covers from recording artists like: Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Dylan, Stones, Beatles, Dead, Petty, Santana, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy, etc. The band was founded by guitarist, bassist, songwriter, singer Mike Fleming. The Barbary Coast Allstars have evolved out of Mike's concept of spotlighting stars of the local music scene in and around San Francisco in a variety of configurations. The show is a jam format, so you'll get to some of the Bay's best players. Check out some of the music at http://myspace.com/barbarycoastallstars .

For Additional Trips and Events
Sponsored by the Bay Area Council
Of Ski Clubs and Affiliates:

Please click here to view the BAC's hot sheet!

Looking for a Ride?

IF you're a member, try our unofficial e-mail list; click here for instructions.
Otherwise, try www.snowpals.org and try their rideshares system!

Photos

Click here for the holiday party photos.
Click here for the Halloween photos.
Click here for the 2007 Yosemite photos.
Click HERE for the Panorama Trip and Other Photos.
And for many, many more, click HERE.

Submit Photos!

Do you have any photos that you would like to see woven into the graphics of our next Web site addition? Instead of stock photos and clip art, we would like to use photos of our members and our events, and art work or images created by our members. E-mail them to the .

Club Affiliations
San Francisco Singles Ski & Snowboard Club participates in the Far West Ski Association, Bay Area Council (BAC) of Ski Clubs and the Bay Area Singles League. As a San Francisco Singles Ski & Snowboard Club member, you have access to local, regional and international, ski trips and events sponsored by these organizations.

Ski Season
During the season, our winter sports calendar is filled with organized and "ad hoc" trips to the nearby Sierra Nevada for fun in the snow. On any given weekend you can join club members and friends to ski or board at Lake Tahoe ski resorts, or on Nordic trails. Club membership provides discount programs for lodging, transportation, lift tickets…even lessons. For those who enjoy organized competition, we invite you to join our Race Team as it competes against other Bay Area and regional ski clubs (on skis OR BOARDS) in the amateur alpine racing program. In addition, we offer organized out-of-state group Trips to popular ski areas in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and anywhere one can carve a turn in the snow! Membership in the Club entitles you to Discount Lift Tickets, and gives you access to a cabin for race weekends.

Year-Around Events
We enjoy other sports and many social activities. Drop by a meeting to learn more about our upcoming activities.

How's the snow?

Live at the summit of Northstar-at-Tahoe.
At night, a lone light on the lift often shines.
The photo is updated every five minutes. More cams

The Club Wants You to Lead an Event!

Yes, you CAN organize and lead a Ski Club event. In fact, the Club encourages you to do this!

Click here for information on how.

Far West Ski Assoc. and BAC

As an S.F. Ski Club member, you can participate in Far West Ski Assoc. and BAC events

	The Far West Ski Association sponsors many trips.
	The Bay Area Council (BAC) of Ski Clubs also sponsors many events and trips, and supports the Ski For All Foundation.

Fun Stuff

	Harbin Snow and Ice Festival
		OK, this really has nothing to do with the Club (except snow is involved), but check out the Harbin Snow and Ice Festival: the photos are amazing.

	The Pet Palace
		Post photos of your pet here.
	Quotes Out of Context
		"When you're that cute, it doesn't matter what kind of equipment you have." -- Gail Y.
	And a few humor entries by our webmaster (all of these have music):
		Toni P.'s "Gone to the Dogs" Page
		Dave M.'s New York Attitude Place
		Steve N.'s Travel Items
		The Kate B. & Lynn M. Spa Girl Realm
		John U.'s Racing World
		Dory R.'s Presidential Podium
		Len B.'s Cat House

Submit Comments, Requests and Changes

NOTE: If you are from one of the Bay Area Singles League clubs and you want to publicize your annual fundraising event here, e-mail the information to Pam Stewart at pilottsa@mac.com, who will cheerfully (well, at least without TOO much grumbling), post your event.

Pretty much everything else on this web site can plausibly be blamed on the webmaster. To send comments, suggestions, changes, updates, corrections, possible links -- or thoughts on the meaning of life -- to webmaster Chris Valle-Riestra via e-mail, click .

Please send e-mail if you discover any errors, broken links, outdated information or bizarre formatting! (It's all too easy to miss this type of thing -- or to change something and accidentally create an error.)

If you're looking for other folks (officers, etc.), head to our Contact Us page.

Info About This Web Site

Changing the Size of the Text You See. To change the text size if you are using Internet Explorer, click "View" at the top of your screen, then "Text Size" and pick a larger or smaller text size. This web site is designed for 1024 x 768 resolution (about 52% of users) and tested regularly for 800 x 600 resolution (about 32% of users), but should work fine at higher resolutions. The text may be small at resolutions higher than 1024 x 768 and it may be a bit large at the 800 x 600 resolution.

Adding a Shortcut to this Site to Your Desktop. To add a shortcut to this site to your desktop, click "File" at the top, then "Send", then "Shortcut to Desktop". (This only works for Internet Explorer.)

Adding This Site as a Browser Favorite. To add this site as a browser favorite, click "Favorites" at the top, then "Add to Favorites", then "OK". (This only works for Internet Explorer.)

If you want to change your screen resolution and you're using Windows, here's how (you can always change it back): right click a blank section of your Desktop, click "Properties", and click "Settings"; write down -- or at least remember -- your current screen resolution (which may be something like "800 x 600 pixels"); move the slider to a different screen resolution, click "Apply" and then click "OK". This will change the size of your Desktop icons and also change the size of things in your browser.

Although the "live" picture from Northstar, above, is usually updated at the camera end every five minutes, if you have the SF Ski Club web site up on your screen for more than five minutes, you'll have to click the "refresh" button on your browser to get an updated picture. (The picture does get "stuck" on the camera end from time to time, but they are usually pretty good about getting the camera working again.) For more cams, head to Outdoor Cameras.

If all the images do not show up (instead you get a white box with red "x" in it), try refreshing your browser window. If you are using Internet Explorer (and most people are), click the icon at the top with the two curved arrows that are chasing each other. (If you let your cursor rest on the icon for a moment, usually a little "refresh" label will come up.)

Some of our forms are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. It's free. If you don't have the Acrobat Reader, you can download it by clicking the following: or here.

If the animations don't work and you are using ZoneAlarm as your firewall, you'll need to change its settings. With the new version of ZoneAlarm, open ZoneAlarm, click the "Privacy" link, in the "Ad Blocking" section click the "Custom" button, then make sure the "Animation" box does NOT have a check in it.

Favicons are the "custom" icons on your browser's Favorites list and on your desktop shortcuts (as opposed to the default icon that otherwise appears -- and which looks like this ). The SF Ski Club favicon is . One problem with favicons is that if you clear your browser cache (the saved copies of the web pages you've visited), you lose your favicons and get the boring default icon instead. If you (understandably) find this annoying, there is a program call FavOrg you can run that will save your favicons. Click here to download it.

This site is tested for compatibility with MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox (which effectively covers Netscape, since it uses the same engine as Firefox). This covers over 90% of users. We recommend a display of at least 800x600 pixels, with your browser running in full screen mode. Still, it's sometimes difficult to get things to work the same in different formats--so the formatting may not always be perfect with your browser running on your computer. (Actually, the screens do not necessarily format the same way for two different computers even if both are using the same resolution and browser. The operating system plays a role, too.)

All contents of this site belong to the San Francisco Ski Club, a California not-for-profit corporation, except portions bearing the copyright notice or other indication of ownership of their respective owners. No content of this site may be used for any purpose without written permission from the owners. In addition to other remedies, the Club reserves the right to whack violators with a ski pole!

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