SKI CHATTER. Ellen Locke, Membership. Ed Offstein - DDSC President THE DON DIEGO SKI CLUB NEWSLETTER. ISSUE 175 November Upcoming Activities

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1 NEWSLETTER SKI CHATTER ISSUE 175 November 2018 IS A NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT November is Thanksgiving month, so in the spirit of the holiday, let s give thanks to some of the Don Diego members who have already made special contributions to the club in this season: To Hans, Gunter, Win, Bea, and Ellen Locke for hosting parties in their homes To Carolyn, Gunter, and Keith for leading the Mammoth ski trips To Noni and Chris, for organizing the Christmas Party To Kathy, for learning on the job to be an effective Treasurer To Karl, our one-man multimedia broadcast network To our rotating secretaries To the entire Board for consistent attendance For Sabine, for leading hikes year-around and running the Meetup group And to all the members who spread the word about the club, already resulting in 14 brand new members Happy Thanksgiving, Ed Offstein - DDSC President Be safe!!! Sign up for one (or all) of our Mammoth Midweek ski trips before the Ghoulies haul you away. Note: Opening day at Mammoth is November 8. Upcoming Activities The next Don Diego Ski Club meeting, Thursday, November 15 at the Rockin Baja Lobster Coastal Cantina starting at 5:00 PM. November 17, Saturday: Winter Snowball Gala. San Diego Ski Council s 55th anniversary celebration at Holiday Inn Bayside, 4875 N Harbor Drive. December 12, Wednesday: DDSC Christmas Party. Our annual holiday celebration at the 94th Aero Squadron on Balboa Ave. See the flier on page 6. FROM OUR MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN Don t forget to renew your membership for 2018/2019. Applications for membership can be found on our website, on the membership page. Please fill out the application completely and be sure to have each adult member sign the form. Mail the form along with your check made payable to Don Diego Ski Club or bring them to our next club meeting. The meeting will be held November 15th at the Rockin' Baja Lobster Coastal Cantina. Mark your calendar for the club Christmas party which is being planned by Noni and Chris. The event will be Wednesday December 12th at the 94 th Aero Squadron on Balboa Ave. The cost is $50 per person and payment is due by December 5th. The fun starts at 6:00 pm with no host cocktails and dinner is at 6:30 pm in the Able/Fox Room. Mail your check along with your choice of entrée (Salmon, NY steak or Veggie Pasta) to: Noni Henning, st St #411, Coronado Bring an unwrapped toy for a military child. If you have any questions, please contact Noni at nhenning001@san.rr.com or Chris at choukom@sbcglobal.net. Ellen Locke, Membership Non-members are always welcome at club meetings. Membership applications are available there and you may join and get your membership card right away. Membership applications also can be downloaded from the club web site: M E M B E R S H I P I N F O R M A T I O N Or if you desire, you may contact our new membership chairperson Ellen Locke ( ) who will mail a membership application to you. The yearly club dues are $30 for a single membership ($45 for a family membership) and you obtain the newsletter from our web site. For an additional $10.00, the newsletter will be mailed to you.

2 SKI CHATTER Page 2 TRAVEL/TRIP REPORTS Mammoth Midweek #1: Hi skiers and boarders, Snow has started to fall in the mountains. A-basin in Colorado has over 2 feet of snow and has already started their season. Mammoth s opening date is November 8th. Time to start those ski exercises. Right now on the January trip we have over 26 skiers, so don t wait to sign up. It is predicted to be a great snow year, and we will have a trip filled with fun people. We want you to join us! Once again we will be at the High Sierra Best Western with its spacious rooms and fabulous breakfasts. Monday night will be our delicious catered dinner and Wednesday a wine and cheese party put on by the hotel. If you haven t already signed up print out the flyer that is on our website, sign it and mail it to me with a check made out to DDSC Client Trust Acct. Hope to see everyone at the November meeting. Carolyn Blumenthal, trip leader Mammoth Midweek #2: We are already getting signups for this February trip. Again as usual we are staying at the High Sierra Best Western. So don t hesitate to get in your deposits and not lose out on this great Mammoth skiing experience. Gunter Schrecker, trip leader Mammoth Midweek #3: We are looking forward to our March trip. We can expect more fresh snow and longer daylight. We will be staying at the Best Western with a full breakfast included plus heated indoor pool and spa. As with our other Mammoth trips bus ride and club dinner is included. Deposits are coming in now and we need your deposits so we know how many rooms to reserve. If you have any questions please give me a call or me at KeithRBowen@aol.com Keith Bowen, trip leader See the trip fliers on page 6 Ski Trip dates for Don Diego Ski Club for the 2019 Season: Mammoth Midweek #1: Jan. 6 11, 2019 Trip Leader: Carolyn Blumenthal Mammoth Midweek #2: Feb. 3 8, 2019 Trip Leader: Gunter Schrecker Mammoth Midweek #3: March Trip Leader: Keith Bowen (See the last page for CST/TCRC information) Some Ski Industry News (reprinted from the FAR WEST NEWS FLASH) NEW Ski Lift for Big White: Talk to any Big White Staff Member, and they will tell you that they have Canada s oldest and most popular triple chair the Powder Chair. Well.after almost 40 years, it is being replaced by a high-speed Quad Chair, in time for the new season. Along with that upgrade, there will also be an expansion of the skier tunnel on Hummingbird, to allow for increased skier and foot traffic. They current tunnel is just 25 feet wide, and will be increased to a 60-foot wide one. NEW Luxury Hotel Being Built in Big Sky: Montage International and CrossHarbor Capital Partners LLC announced the groundbreaking of Montage Big Sky, which is set to open in Montage Big Sky will be the first ultra-luxury resort in the Big Sky, Montana area. The Montage will feature 150 guest rooms and 39 Montage residences. Resort Amenities will include a restaurant, lobby bar and lounge, a pub, a market, a bowling alley, a lap-pool, family pool, fitness center and spa. It is set to open in Happy Birthday Grand Targhee: Grand Targhee is 50 years old this year. Check them out to see what celebrations they have in store to mark this Golden year. U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame: From Ishpeming, Michigan, on October 12, comes the announcement of the 2018 Inductees into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame: Resort veteran, Bill Jensen; longtime US Ski & Snowboard spokesman, Tom Kelly; Olympians, Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht; women s moguls champion, Hilary Engisch-Klein, and extreme skier, Kristen Ulmer. Also included, are the late Tom Sims, one of the founders of snowboarding, and the late Don Henderson, a pioneer ski racer and member of the 10th Mountain Division. A formal induction will be held on April 6, 2019, in Salt Lake City. Park City will host a Snowsport History Celebration April 4-6, Colorado Ski County USA Honors Military Members: From Winter Park to Steamboat. From Telluride to Monarch Mountain. From Purgatory to Loveland Colorado Ski Areas are providing discounts this ski season to current military members, retired military members, military veterans and their families. Check with your favorite Colorado ski area to see the values they have in mind for YOU.

3 SKI CHATTER Page 3 SAN DIEGO COUNCIL of SKI CLUBS REPORT by Martin Wascher The Ski Council is busily planning all sorts of ski, travel and social activities. Sometimes I think the Council and FarWest Ski Association are becoming travel agents, but they do work hard to provide a wide variety of activities designed to attract a large number of ski club participants. These activities also serve to introduce club members of different clubs and in a way act as a recruiting tool. I encourage all of our members to participate in as many Ski Council and FarWest activities as possible so that folks know there is a Don Diego Ski Club and that the club actively participates. FarWest Ski Week will be held at Steamboat Springs Colorado, February 2 9 and they have planned a mini Ski Week at Winter Park Colorado March I understand that the Steamboat Springs trip is full, but if you are interested, get on the waiting list. There are always a few cancellations. The Winter Park trip has plenty of openings. For more details please check out the trip fliers on the Don Diego or San Diego Council web sites. Some people had cash money attached to their last year Mammoth season pass that they used to pay for food, drinks, etc. DO NOT throw the old card away because the money left over from last year will not be transferred to your IKON pass but will continue to be carried on your old Mammoth Pass until it is used up. The next two Council functions are not too far away. The first one is the Council Winter Gala on November 17 at the Holiday Inn Bayside starting at 5:00 PM. It is going back to a more dressy social affaire with dinner and dancing. The cost will be $50 per person. Let s get a group of Don Diego members together; put on your best bib and tucker (I ll be wearing my tux), have a nice sit-down dinner and dance to a few of the oldies. Show the Council that Don Diego Ski Club is a group of active club members that support Council activities. The next Council activity is the Christmas holiday happy hour at Humphries By The Bay starting at 4:00 PM on December 19. For more compete information check the event fliers on the Don Diego or San Diego Council web sites. Eileen Sanford is busily working on the Ski Council sponsored trips to Australia/New Zealand and the bike and boat trip to the Netherlands. The fliers for each trip is on the Ski Council web site. The fliers contain trip details and application information. Below is a list of trips. Amsterdam to Bruges Bike and Boat 29 Apr 4 May 2019 with a post side trip to Greece 3 May 11 May 2019 Australia & New Zealand 13 Oct 31 Oct 2019 Ski Japan-Hakuba Valley Ski Resort 9 Mar 16 Mar 2019 The FarWest Convention will be held in Palm Springs the first weekend in June. Here are some pics from Bea s Halloween Party. Can you identify these trick or treaters? DDSC Officers and Directors President Ed Offstein Past President Pete Michael Vice President Eileen Weiner Secretary Leslie Pally Treasurer Kathy Hendrickson Directors at Large Rose Emry Dan Henry Karl Cikste Ellen Locke Sunshine Rep Rose Emry Racing Carl Cobb Public Affairs Leslie Pally Publications Karl Cikste Programs Judy Porter Social Bonnie Fritts Webmaster Karl Cikste Hiking/Fitness Sabine Alberti Membership Ellen Locke Council Rep Martin Wascher Club Founders Joe Harris Bruce Barr

4 SKI CHATTER Page 4 HIKING/FITNESS Excerpts from a new study: Not Exercising is worse than Smoking! We've all heard exercise helps you live longer. But a new study goes one step further, finding that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. Dr. Wael Jaber, a cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the study, called the results "extremely surprising." "Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker," Jaber told CNN. "We've never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this." Jaber said researchers must now convey the risks to the general population that "being unfit should be considered as strong of a risk factor as hypertension, diabetes and smoking -- if not stronger than all of them." "It should be treated almost as a disease that has a prescription, which is called exercise," he said. Researchers retrospectively studied 122,007 patients who underwent exercise treadmill testing at Cleveland Clinic between January 1, 1991 and December 31, 2014 to measure all-cause mortality relating to the benefits of exercise and fitness. Those with the lowest exercise rate accounted for 12% of the participants. The study was published in the journal JAMA Network Open. The benefits of exercise were seen across all ages and in both men and women, "Probably a little more pronounced in females," Jaber said. "Whether you're in your 40s or your 80s, you will benefit in the same way." So get moving, sign up for the next hike! Please look for details for our Thursday hikes in your box and the Don Diego Meetup at You can contact me directly at sabinalb@pacbell.net or on my mobile phone, Sabine, Your Hiking Leader Here are some pics from hikes this past month: atop Cowles Mt. Lake Hodges Win on Cowles Mt. trail Mt. Woodson, Potato Chip Rock Marina sitting on Potato Chip Rock atop Mt. Woodson

5 SKI CHATTER Page 5 and here s some more fitness stuff Can You Ski Yourself Into Shape? By Pat McCloskey (Downloaded from There Are Other, Fun Ways To Get Ready Besides Hitting The Gym. One of the myths I hear from people at the beginning of the ski season is that they can ski themselves into shape. They have not really done any preparation for the ski season and feel that they just have to start skiing, and their ski legs will eventually come back. If I ever heard fake news, this is it. Skiing is a dynamic sport and in order to effectively execute a turn, your legs need to be in good shape before the first turn of the season. I can t tell you how many times I have see folks whose legs are killing them after the first and second day of a ski trip. They ski defensively, because they are not in good shape and all the money that they have spent on a ski trip is for naught. That s because they failed to get in shape before they got on that airplane. The same is true for local skiers who make their way to their local ski area and have the same experience. So why not start thinking about this now if you have not done so? There are a lot of articles popping up in the ski periodicals and web sites about exercises that you can do in the gym. But how many of us really want to spend time in the gym day in and day out to prepare for ski season? How many times can we pretend to sit in an invisible chair with our backs to the wall to strengthen our legs? On the other hand, there are outdoor activities that can be engaged to get the legs in shape but are also fun and allow us to be in the outdoors which is where we all want to be in the first place. A good friend of mine says there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing choices. So why not buy a good Gore-Tex suit for running or hiking and also one to ride in the winter if you can do it. Night riding is a favorite of mine, and there are a lot of options for rechargeable light and battery systems. I have used a lot of expensive lighting options in the past but with the advance of lighting technology, you can now purchase systems for a fraction of the cost of the traditional main stream lighting systems. Cree Mountain Bike Lights found on Amazon are an excellent choice for around $32.00 and provide three mode LED lighting with a rechargeable battery that can provide up to two hours of excellent light on high mode. I use these lights on my handlebar with another one on my helmet. I store the battery for the helmet light in my hydration pack and also the battery for the handlebar light can be attached to the top tube of the mountain bike. I also purchase spare batteries and store them in my pack in the event that there are any issues with the primary battery. It is not too late to get back on that bike, lace up the trail running shoes or hiking boots, and get moving. Your legs will appreciate your diligence now in the early fall season, and you will enjoy your turns and ski outings much better if you take the time to be in shape when the first flakes start to fly in the mountains. With the flaming leaves coming in to view, the trails in our mountains and parks are available for mountain biking, hiking, and trail running. Hiking and trail running uphill prepare the legs for sure as well as providing an excellent outdoor fresh air activity. Mountain biking ramps that up a bit by strengthening the legs on climbs, as well as simulating skiing skills like looking ahead and picking a path through varied terrain. Lots of folks mountain bike, hike, and run during the summer season when the weather is cooperative, but when the time change looms Nov. 4 this year, by the way and the days get shorter, the motivation for these activities starts to wane. If you want to be prepared for ski season, I would strongly suggest that you continue these activities as long as you can during the fall and into the winter if conditions allow. Sure, you can do the gym thing. It s not too late to hit the trails, too....and then when you re all done with the exercise, reward yourself with some cold brews at the Green Flash Brewery and Eatery. Indoor dining Outdoor dining

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7 November 2018 SUNDAY 4 MONDAY TUESDAY 5 6 WEDNESDAY 7 THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Snow Jam 10Snow Jam at the Del Mar Fairgrounds 11 Snow Jam at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Thanksgiving Day November Bir thdays Connie Smith Nick Little Roy Michel Peter Papano Leslie Pally Judy Schramm 11/01 11/02 11/05 11/05 11/06 11/ MEETING 5:00 Rockin Baja Lobster Coastal Cantina Veterans Day observed DD SKI CLUB Jim Vanoni Hans Millenaar Ryan Ragozzine Jim Hoffman Dale Shannon Marueen Jones (Our website) (San Diego Council) (Far West Ski Association) (National Ski Council Federation) DDSC recommends all trip participants secure travel insurance. Here are some providers: Travelguard.com Squaremouth.com Quotewright.com Insuremytrip.com Travelprotectors.com Your own home/auto insurance carrier San Diego Ski Council Winter Snowball Gala Deadline for Newsletter Copy 30 DECEMBER HEADS UP 11/13 11/16 11/16 11/19 11/22 11/23 Check out these websites for additional ski and club information: 29 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds December 12. DDSC Christmas Party at the 94th Aero Squadron December 20. Club meeting at the Rockin' Baja Lobster Coastal Cantina CST REFERENCE NUMBER The paragraph below explains what CST (California Seller of Travel) means. You will see the number referenced on every flyer. Please read this paragraph thoroughly. It is a required for all club trips to make this statement available to you. CST California law requires certain sellers of travel to have a trust account or bond. This business has a trust account. All payments for transportation or travel service not provided to the passenger shall be promptly refunded, in accordance with the agreed-to-terms and conditions, unless the passenger otherwise instructs the seller of travel in writing. This business is a participant in the Travel Consumer Restitution Corporations (TCRC). You, the passenger, may request reimbursement from TCRC if you are owed a refund of more than $50 for transportation or travel services which was not refunded in a timely manner by a seller of travel who was registered and participating in the TCRC at the time of sale. The maximum amount which may be paid by the TCRC to any one passenger is the total amount paid on behalf of the passenger to the seller of travel, not to exceed $15,000. A claim must be submitted to the TCRC within six months after the scheduled completion date of the travel. A claim must include sufficient information and documentation to prove your claim and $35 processing fee. You must agree to waive your right to other civil remedies against a registered participating seller of travel for matters arising out of a sale for which you file a claim with the TCRC, if your were located in California at the time of the sale. You may request a claim form by writing to: Travel Consumer Restitution Corporation, P.O. Box 6001, Larkspur, CA ; or by faxing a request to: (415) is a NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION and a MEMBER of the SAN DIEGO COUNCIL & FAR WEST SKI ASSOC.

8 See our club website for directions Rockin Baja Lobster Coastal Cantina (5:00 PM) 8223 Mira Mesa Blvd., San Diego NEXT CLUB MEETING: Thursday, November 15, 2018 DON DIEGO SKI CLUB NEWSLETTER 2001 Canta Lomas El Cajon, CA SKI CHATTER November 2018 PHONE: (619) * kcikste@cox.net * website * Don Diego is a member of the Far West Ski Association