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1 January 2010 Calendar of Events January 5 - Lesson Program Begins at Bear Creek Race Clinic by Diane Roffe January 7 - General Meeting Ski Tuning with Bernie Resch January 16 - Bump Clinic Location to be announced January 21 - General Meeting Introduction to NASTAR Racing Aspen Trip Mtg at 6pm January 23 - Las Vegas Night Riveredge January 26 - Race Clinic by Diane Roffe at Bear Creek February 4 - General Meeting February 13 - Junior Clinic February 16 - Carving Out Cancer Bear Creek February 18 - General Meeting February 20 - Winter Carnival Bear Creek February 27 - Bump Clinic Ski Roundtop February 28 - EPSC Council Cup Race Membership Meetings are held at 7:30 PM at the READING LIEDERKRANZ 143 Spook Lane Reading, PA THE Deadline for the February issue of Ski Trails is Tuesday, January 5th. President Rick Auchenbach Happy New Year! I hope you had a wonderful Holiday Season. Now it s time to hang your 2010 calendar on the refrigerator and start the New Year. With the 50th Anniversary behind us, I thought activities and events would slow down, but that s not exactly been the case. Here are a few examples The Lesson Program begins Tuesday, January 5th, at Bear Creek and continues for 6 additional weeks. The Instructional Trip to Greek Peak, NY, takes place the weekend of January 8th - 10th. There s always room for more students in the Lesson Program, but I believe the Instructional Trip is full. These are both excellent ways to improve your skiing and boarding. We hope to see you there. Check the ski calendar and the website for discount skiing opportunities. This is a great FDSC benefit and a smart way to ski on a budget. We can all appreciate that in a down economy. Remember to take advantage of a Bear Creek Season Pass. There is one tailored to our Lesson Program, offering a 7-lift ticket package deal. This is cheaper than the ski club discount voucher and saves the club money at the same time. (Our club subsidizes the $17 Lesson Nights, as well as other discount skiing nights.) See the FDSC website for more details about this and numerous other Ski Club benefits. Our club charity, Relay for Life, has numerous events on the 2010 calendar. Two happening in ski season are Las Vegas Night on Saturday, January 23rd, at The Riveredge, and Carving Out Cancer at Bear Creek on Tuesday, February 16th. All proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. Please come out and support these charitable events. Think Snow Ski Safely, Rick TRIPS 2010 Greek Peak, NY, Inst. Trip Jan 8-10 Beth Long Mary Grossman Hakuba, Japan Jan Kevin & Suzanne Claypoole Heavenly Lake Tahoe/ ESPC Winter Carnival Jan Karen & Russ Youngwirth Lake Placid - Ski Whiteface & Gore Jan 31-Feb 3 Marianne van der Velde Marcia Fehl Aspen-Snowmass Feb 6-13 Dave Coffey Sue McMullen Elk Mountain Feb 21 Ellen Schwartz Stowe, VT Trapp Family Lodge Mar 4-7 Lori & Stacey Kramer Okemo, VT Family Trip Mar Michelle Feathers & Craig Leister Bolton Valley and Sugarbush, VT Mar Patti Spitler Sherry Vazquez

2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Rick Auchenbach st. Vice President & Membership: Lori Hudson nd. Vice President & Programs: Ed Soja Treasurer: Paul Schwartz Past President: Karen Youngwirth Secretary: Diane Nolfe Skimeister: Marianne van der Velde Trip Director: Kevin Claypoole Publicity Director: Beth Long Lodge Director: Neal Kline Competition Director: Nancy Brandi Social Director: Debbie Pasquale FDSC Lodge HOTLINE: (610) WEB: 2 Ski Trails Trippin Kevin Claypoole Hey Skiers and Boarders, Christmas is over and hopefully you ve had a chance to test your new skis and gear. Time to start the lesson program and get packing for your trips. I hope you signed up for one or it may be too late. It s time that we start planning trips for We ll need some new volunteers and some new destinations. Let me know if you have any suggestions for destinations. I will post a meeting date in late February or early March for a Trip Meeting. Remember to Thank your Trip Leaders and lend a hand on trips. Thanks to all of you and see you on the slopes! Kevin Sign up NOW Elk Mountain Day Trip Sunday, February 21, 2010 Same great trip Same low price as last year! Featuring: Bus Transportation Continental breakfast on the bus A full day of skiing Drinks and sandwiches on the return trip Price: $80 per person For more info contact: Ellen Schwartz escschwartz@hotmail.com (put Elk Mtn in subject line) Don t delay! Send trip form and check to: Ellen Schwartz 4728 Williams Ave. Reading, PA Membership Lori Hudson Happy New Year, everyone! Now that the holiday season is behind us we can get down to the most important season of the year--ski season! Does anyone else have trouble sleeping the night before a day on the slopes? I m always too excited to sleep, even after all these years of skiing! I m looking forward to a fun weekend on the Instructional Trip--I hope you re signed up for some of our great trips, too! Reminder for the New Member Recruiting Contest: $25 FDSC gift certificate to the member recruiting the most new members by January 31st. Now that ski season is here it should be easy to get your friends to sign up. Introduce your non-skiing friends to our sport and our organization. Your name must appear on their membership application to be counted for the contest. I m still trying to get to 1,000 members! Enjoy the snow! See you on the slopes! Lori Lodge Neal Kline Hello from the lodge! Don`t forget to complete your ski season by staying for a week or weekend at the club's ski lodge in the Poconos. It's an affordable way to get away from it all. Contact me to make your reservation today. Be Safe! Neal

3 4425 Pottsville Pike, Reading, PA Hours: Mon - Fri 11 AM - 8 PM Sat 9 AM - 1 PM The former head technician at Pinnacle Sports is back at the tuning machines as he purchased Pinnacle s equipment and opened his own shop. Get the EXPERT tunes you ve known for years SAME DAY SERVICE is available WHILE YOU WAIT SERVICE is available Boot adjustments and custom foot beds for a comfortable skiing experience. Private Ski or Board Lessons with a Certified Instructor 90 minute lesson $60.00 Full day lesson $200.00, 3-2 hour sessions You can ask up to 4 equal skiers to join your lesson FAST TRACK WAXING! Stop by on the way to the hill and we can wax them while you wait! (Pizza shop next door is great!) CONSIGNMENT SALES OF USED EQUIPMENT It s better than a tent sale because YOU receive the proceeds. Bring in your used skis, boards, boots and helmets today and we will try to find them a new home. The up front fee to place an item at our consignment wall is only $25.00/mo. for boot, boards and skis. Helmets are FREE! You set the sale price and when it sells, you receive a check for the FULL sale amount. DIRECTIONS TO STORE From Route 222 bypass take Route 61 South. We are 1/2 mile on the left. (Next to MT Bank) From Route 12 bypass take Route 61 North. We are 2.4 miles on the right. (Just past Bob Fisher Chevrolet & Wegman s) Ski Trails 3

4 GALA CELEBRATION November 14, 2009 Many thanks to all of our program sponsors! Double Black Diamond American Inn ComfortPro, Inc. FDSC Board of Directors Heffner Printing HRS/TND Associates Okemo Ronco s Pharmacy, Inc. Sunshine Beverage, Inc. Black Diamond Elite Coach Hillcrest Racquet Club Klein Transportation The Rock Pygmy Third Rail Bar & Restaurant Blue Square Down Under Sports & Fitness East-West Massage and School of Massage Therapy FDSC Lodge JB Mountain Bikes Jeff Rapp Remodeling Jeff scrapp Kline Plumbing & Heating Marty Moyer The Music Machine Mervine s Exhaust Sys. Spec. Green Circle Janice and Dana Heck Bunny Slope Fran Parzanese Lorri Swan 4 Ski Trails

5 Competition Nancy Brandi Happy New Year 2010 and glad to be done with the last six months of 2009! Let s move on to a better year ahead and a fresh start that will bring the Dutchmen families many laughs and memories to share. Killington race camps happened in early Dec. and hopefully our club members who attended were shined upon by the VT Snow Gods I know from past experience that those who attended worked hard all day on snow with their race coaches and played equally hard après skiing. Can you say Wobbly Barn??? New this racing season, we have the talented Diane Roffe to do race clinics for our interested racing FDSC members. The clinics will be offered on snow at Bear Creek on Tuesday nights Jan. 5th and 26th. Tentative time is 6 to 8pm. Feb. dates, TBA. The cost for this premier race clinic will be posted on our website. You will not want to miss this opportunity to be coached by a Gold Medal Olympian! For the family that skis together, don t forget that ASRA offers racing to all ages and all levels of abilities. Great way to spend the weekend together. Jan. races for ASRA are the 2nd & 3rd at Tangelwood and then Jan. 9th & 10th at Elk Mtn. We have rooms available at the FDSC lodge if you need accommodations. Don t forget that the local Nastar courses are a great way to tune up for the more competitive races. You can find plenty of fun at Blue Mtn. on Sundays and Thursdays, Bear Creek on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and Roundtop on Friday nights and weekends. For complete schedules, please review the mountains websites. Please keep in mind that any new information concerning racing events will always be posted on our own FDSC website. You ll find current events, awards earned by our race team members, and helpful answers to those ski tuning questions SAVE THE DATE: Feb.28th, EPSC Council Cup Race (FDSC needs your support!) Let the snow fly Nancy New Members Welcome to our New and Returning Members: Joey Arndt Kate Auchenbach Sylvia Boyd Elizabeth Brown Elizabeth den Otter Michael Diamond Anthony DiCerchio Callie Exas Chris Exas Michael Feeney Ron Garay Tracy Garay David Geyer Keith Harrison David Johnson Yoshihiro Kawano Holly Krause Julie Miller Gerald Peklak Jeannette Reigel Deb Roth James Scovern Dan Sharp Dottie Sterner Steve Sterner Tracey Therrien Joshua White Tentative Happy Hour Schedule for January 1/1 Happy New Year! 1/8 West Reading Tavern 1/15 Westy s 1/22 Austin s 1/29 Bixler s 2/5 Tim s Ugly Mug Meet around 6:30ish for food, spirits and conversation. Visit FDSC website weekly in case of change. ADVERTISING RATES Whole Page - $ Two Thirds Page - $ Half Page - $75.00 Third Page - $50.00 Quarter Page - $35.00 Business Card - $15.00 AYCE FUND RAISER FAMILY STYLE ROAST BEEF DINNER Saturday January 23, pm PRESENTED BY: THE AMITY TOWNSHIP LIONS CLUB At ST. Paul s UCC Church in Amityville Adults - $11 Children (6-12) - $6 Under 6 (Dining Room) Free Take Outs are Available from 3-7 pm Tickets are available at the door or in advance from Tim Schell Ski Trails 5

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8 2010 FDSC DISCOUNT SKI VOUCHERS We will continue to offer Bear Creek and Blue Mountain through our sales people at a great savings to members. In order to offer our members a greater variety of vouchers, FDSC has teamed up again with Eastern Pennsylvania Ski Council (EPSC). EPSC will provide FDSC members the opportunity of purchasing vouchers with a dramatic discount. To order vouchers from EPSC, complete the order form provided (also on under Dutchmen Deals). Follow the instructions and mail with check to Ken Foster Midweek Night Vouchers: Bear Creek $20 (Regular 33, Save $13) Blue Mountain $25 (Regular, $32, Save $7) $17 Discount Nights at Bear Creek Every Tuesday Evening from January 1 through March 9, 2010 Saturday Evenings: January 2 and 16, February 13 and 27, 2010 $20 Discount Nights at Blue Mountain Saturday Evenings: January 9 and 23, February 6 and 20, March 6, 2010 You may purchase regular vouchers or the special date vouchers at any FDSC meeting or by calling any of the salespeople listed below. A salesperson will also be available at Bear Creek only on lesson nights starting at 6PM. Discount Voucher for Flying Dutchmen Members Evening Weekday Weekend/Holiday BEAR CREEK BLUE MT. EAGLE ROCK $20 $25 $25 Friday Only $27 $33 CLOSED $48 $42 $25 $15 All Day every Wednesday at Bear Creek. No Voucher Needed. Show membership card at window. Voucher Sales Representatives The people listed below will be selling vouchers between meetings. Please be courteous and give 24 hours notice to the voucher salesperson before purchasing. Remember, you can return unused vouchers for a full refund. No phone calls after 9:00 PM please! Bill Stockler will be available at meetings for voucher sales. Kim & Brian Van Buskirk Dave Coffey Bob Fehl (Fehl s Home & Garden) 112 Carriage Court 2957 Ellen Avenue 14 Lakeview Drive (Maidencreek Area) Kutztown, PA West Lawn, PA Reading, PA / cell: / work: Bill Stockler Ken & MaryAnn Billy 409 Mifflin Blvd. 113 Endlich Ave. Shillington, PA Mt. Penn, PA As always, all vouchers are for the use of Flying Dutchmen members only! REFUND POLICY Return to same salesperson. Include self addressed stamped envelope No later than Thursday, March 18, ADULT LESSON PROGRAM FOR 2010 Tuesdays at Bear Creek Adlults Sign In 7:00 Lessons 7:30 to 9:00 January 5 January 12 January 19 January 26 February 2 February 9 February 16 Lessons Lessons & KICK OFF PARTY Lessons Lessons & Standard Clinic (tent.) Lessons & Standard Test (tent.) Lessons & Advanced Clinic (tent.) Lessons & Advanced Test (tent.) Flying Dutchmen Junior Program Juniors can once again sign up to ski with Bear Creek instructors from 6:30-8:00pm on the same evenings. Please visit the website for the link to sign up these Juniors directly online as well as to view all pricing options for these lessons and equipment. As before, we will also be teaching a very limited number of Juniors at 7:30 with Dutchmen instructors. Please contact Marianne van der Velde directly about signing up for this group and I will send you the form if we still have space available. Preference will be given to those whose parents are also in the 7:30 time slot. 8 Ski Trails

9 Social Director Debbie Pasquale Who s Got The Fun? By now the food is gone, the family has left, and the gifts have been returned so what do we do now? We SKI!! The lesson program has begun and the first trip of the year, the Instructional Trip, leaves this weekend and is headed to someplace new, Greek Peak! I for one cannot wait to get out there and try the new boots. Watch out people, I ll be tearing up the slopes this year! The Japan and Lake Placid trips leave this month, too. Another January event will be our first ever Las Vegas Night to benefit the Relay for Life Team on Saturday, January 23rd, at River Edge. Tickets in advance are $20 and $25 at the door. All tickets include $500 in "play money." There will also be a Chinese Auction. The doors open at 6:30 and games are from 7-10 with the Chinese Auction from There will be food available and a cash bar. Real money only!! See Patti or a Relay for Life committee member for tickets or information. So where does that put us? February, of course, with more trips, more lessons, and hopefully snow! Check out the web site for discount ski days/nights, bump clinics, and lesson information. Do you want to do something different this season? Why not try racing? You don t have to be good; you just have to make it down the hill. In fact, I ve been asked to race this year so you know you don t have to be good to race. See Nancy Brandi or a race team member for information. Don t forget, we accept new members all year, so get out there and chat up the club and start recruiting! We ve Got The Fun! Debbie Skimeister Marianne van der Velde Hello Skiers & Riders, Well the lesson program is just about here! You know how I always ask that you not wait 'til the last minute to sign up? If you re reading this and haven t signed up yet It s now the last minute!!! Don t worry, we ll still take you in, but please, please, please, please, please try to get me your registration before lesson night as the first night is always super crazy. Looking forward to a great year of lessons. Think Snow! Marianne Program Director Ed Soja I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and Holiday season. The New Year is upon us and it s time for the ski season to get into full gear. Finally! Enjoy yourself on the snow and be safe. Upcoming Meetings/Programs: January 7th Ski tuning with Bernie Resch. January 21st Introduction to NAS- TAR racing. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. Get with the program! Ed DON T MISS ANYTHING! Please notify your membership director at membership@fdsc.org of any address, , or phone number changes Ski Trails 9

10 The Lodge Rates: Rentals are normally from 5 P.M. until 5 P.M. the next day. * You must rent at least two bedrooms. ** You must rent at least two bedrooms and are subject to being bumped by a whole lodge rental. WINTER RATES DEC MAR. 15 Summer Winter Whole Lodge - Midweek (Sunday to Friday) $ $ Whole Lodge - One night midweek $60.00 $ Per bedroom - One night midweek $15.00* $30.00** Whole Lodge - Friday and Saturday nights $ $ Per bedroom - Friday and Saturday nights $60.00** $125.00** Whole Lodge - 7 days $ $ FLYING DUTCHMEN SKI CLUB BOX READING, PA Return Service Requested PRESORTED STANDARD US POSTAGE PAID READING, PA PERMIT NO. 119