C h i c a g o N o m a d s S k i C l u b N e w s l e t t e r February 1, 2018 Volume 57 Issue 1 the Prez Sez...Bob - Grouch - Klawitter Wow! It s February already. We ve been on some ski trips, watched a lot of football, some hockey and ever a little basketball. What else is there to do? How about trying cross country or shoeing or snowmobiling? A great time to catch up on those books you were going to read last year. Planning the coming spring fishing trip or the summer canoe trip. Whatever else you decide to do with your time. Perhaps thinking ahead to the club s coming elections. Can you give back a little of your time to help run the club? Put your name in the hat for a position on the board. The jobs are not that hard, we ve all done similar things in our own lives and if you get elected there will always be former members who have held the job to guide you and help get you started. All you need to give is a little of your time and some effort. Elected positions this year will be President, Secretary, Social Director and Mid-west Trip Director. All members on the board receive their dues paid during their term and additionally paid dues for a matching term as served. Plus discounts on ski trips. And some refreshments at board meetings. The club gives to you, it s time to give a little back. As it is written, So shall it be. - Grouch Social Meeting 1st Wednesday of every month Joe Daniel s 12218 S. Harlem, Palos Heights 7:30 p.m.
Vice President - Brad Briar As some of you may know, I grew up in Colorado. I started skiing when I was 5 years old and still remember my dad having to carry me halfway down the mountain the first time he let me go to the top. On weekend mornings my parents would wake my brothers and I up early to head up to the slopes. As a kid, skiing was a family outing. When I got a little older and could drive, I would drive my brother up or go with some close friends or by myself. Ski clubs were never something I thought about because I didn t see the need for them. I had no idea what I was missing out on. I moved to the Chicago area in 2010 and having relocated to the flatlands I thought that my skiing days were over. It took a few years being here before I ran across a meetup to watch a Bears game with a ski club. What a truly fortunate find that turned out to be for me. Heather introduced herself and the other Nomads and I knew I was in good company. Finding and joining this club has been a true blessing for me. The trips I have gone on with the Nomads have been so special to me and the people I ve met since joining this club are becoming some very dear friends. Growing up on the big mountains out west I never realized how much fun the Midwest trips could be. Not because of the size of the mountain or the challenge of the terrain, but because of the quality of the people in this and other clubs. It s not just the ski trips though, it s the get-togethers with people with the same passion for living. The Halloween party s and go kart racing. Watching a 78-year-old ski racer sit and have a drink and long conversation with a 23-year-old snowboarder about their day on the slopes. People from diverse backgrounds that all come together because of this love for sliding down a snow-covered hill. There are others out there like me that are looking for something to belong to. As a club we face some challenges that the club did not have to face in the past. It s not hard to find a great deal on your own for a ski trip. But those deals don t come with the camaraderie and fellowship that a club trip provides. I listen to the old stories and I know that there are a lot of good times to be had. There s a lot of passion for this club. This club has provided so much to me in such a short time and I plan on working hard to help bring in the next generation of members to join us. Midwest Trip Director Mike Radice Nomads! Sad to say that the rest of the Midwest trips had to be canceled due to lack of participation. I understand that we have lost a good part of our Midwest skiers. Next season we will only run two Midwest trips, a 1 day trip and a 3 day trip. In the meantime we need to continue to work on recruiting new members. Your Midwest trip director, Mike Brad
From the Editor Please send any pictures you would like to share to: web@chicagonomads.com If members would like anything to be added to newsletter please send it in. Vida Membership If you bring a prospective member to a meeting, you get a raffle ticket. The Participation raffle has started! By the way the club now has 138 members Writing this from a cruise ship, in much warmer weather Lee From the special events director, I am currently working on setting up an event in early February at KJ Riddles Comedy Club. They have a show at 8:00pm on Fridays and 8:00pm and 10:30pm on Saturdays. Details will be forthcoming via e-mail and at the social meeting. Thank You, Patrick Doherty
Hello all and Happy New Year. Christmas party was a blast and we had a good attendance. DJ played all our favorite songs and pitted the guys verses gals in a trivia contest which the men won. DJ playing the jams The Nomads came through with toys for Angels Touch and plenty of goodies for the Manteno Veterans Home. Thank you all.
As I write this I am just returning from Taos.What an excellent trip with Duneland Ski Club. Fred and Ann on lift at Taos Nomads enjoy refreshments at the Bavarian at Taos
Steve, Vida, and Ann enjoying the sun at Taos. Until next time have a good ski season. Fred Hello, If you ordered a thermal shirt you can pick it up at the Social Meeting Feb 6th or the General Meeting Feb 21st. Medium to extra large is $23.00 Double extra large is $25.00 If you are not available on either of those days call me at 708-439-6258 to make other arrangements. ~Heather
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Nomad Family Trip Zermatt Resort, Utah The 14 th annual Nomad Family Western Ski Trip went to the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah on December 30 thru January 5, with 41 Adults, 7 Young-Adults/Teenagers, and 2 Children for a total of 50. Once again it was a great trip with 5 days of skiing and 6 nights and the kids didn t miss any school. Our departure on Sunday went smoothly with no lost luggage and an on time arrival into Salt Lake City Airport. However with a mild snow storm and a long grocery stop we ended up getting to the resort a little later than planned. It also took longer than expected to get our keys and have our luggage brought up to our rooms. In the end we had a nice Welcoming Party and I had a wonderful time sorting thru and handing out multiple day lift tickets to Sundance, Deer Valley, and Park City. (Why can t they be interchangeable?) Overall the weather and snow was pretty good, and just a little cold in the morning for a few days, but no wind. On Monday, we skied Sundance which is a nice quaint resort which had great atmosphere and some pretty good skiing. On Tuesday thru Thursday, the Nomads split up and were shuttled to Deer Valley and Park City; and on Friday we all went to Park City. It would have been nice to have more shuttle times, but the rides were short, we had dedicated shuttles for the Nomads, and we still had plenty of ski time. On Wednesday night some of us were lucky enough to get into the Crater which is a hot springs in a cave which was across the street from the resort. On Thursday evening we had a great club dinner in the Yurt (a heated round tent with a wood burning stove) at the Back 40 that was quite unique. Unfortunately we couldn t have our traditional leftover/awards party on Friday night since no one had a big enough condo, but many of us took an extended stay at Park City on Friday night to have dinner there and do a little shopping. On Friday we had a great day for our Club Nastar Race. Overall we had good participation with 18 of 23 racers winning metals (9 silver & 9 bronze). Unfortunately some of our racers didn t find the course due to their lost guides. Congratulations to my son Alex Clausius and my daughter Irina Clausius for being our speed king and queen. Thanks to everyone who participated. (Race results are shown below). All and all this was another successful Family Trip, with good food everywhere we went, good snow, good times, and a wonderful place to stay. Thanks again to my family and everyone who supported this
Nomad Family Trip Park City Nastar Race Results Men/Boys Time Handicap Medal Men/Boys Time Handicap Medal Alex Clausius Rich Clausius Ron Jurgenson Mark Caputo Douglas Jurgenson Ray Offemaria Brett Bittner Dave Presta 19.45 19.66 20.25 20.43 20.73 21.45 21.90 21.77 27.8 B 27.8 Y 31.7 Y 32.8 Y 34.8 Y 39.5 Y 42.4 Y 43.0 B Silver Silver Silver Silver Bronze Silver Bronze Silver David Bremer Jared Bremer John Bittner John Damme Wayne Tokarczyk Roy Hale Jacob Bremer Johnny Damme 21.93 22.12 22.52 22.89 23.35 23.76 27.63 33.12 44.1 B 45.3 B 48.0 B 48.8 Y 51.8 Y 54.5 Y 81.5 B 115 Y Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze Bronze - - - - - - Women/Girls Time Handicap Medal Women/Girls Time Handicap Medal Irina Clausius (T) Natalie Jurgenson (T) Debbie Jurgenson Danielle Damme 20.24 20.78 22.61 25.40 33.0 B 35.1 Y 47.0 Y 65.1 Y Silver Silver Silver - - - Sally Caputo Darlene Bittner Debbie Clausius 25.63 27.03 29.58 68.4 B 75.7 Y 92.3 Y Bronze - - - - - -
The 14th annual Nomad Family Western Ski Trip went to the Zermatt Resort in Midway, Utah on December 30 thru January 5 This was another successful Family Trip, with good food everywhere we went, good snow, good times, and a wonderful place to stay.
Highlights from Taos Ski Valley Ski Trip with Duneland Ski Club January 2019 By Margie Williams Kudos to our group of leaders from the Nomads (Heather and Brad) and Duneland (Cheryl and Joe) for a fun, well planned, and executed trip. Using cars, planes, buses and vans, the 10 Nomads joined by 24 Duneland members safely arrived at the Snake Dance Condos at Taos Ski Valley. The staff spoiled us forever, delivering our skis, luggage and groceries to our units! We had a great time getting to know the members of both clubs. The kickoff meeting helped us to quickly get ready for a great week full of social gatherings on the slopes, après skis to dinners at Roger s and Diane s (general manager) to dinner at the historic restaurant on site. The location of the condos right next to the Lift 1 was fantastic! With locker storage on the ground floor within minutes one was quickly whisked up the mountain. Many of the club members benefitted from the superb Ski Week Lessons. Taos Ski Valley is the only resort in North America to offer an immersive week-long learning experience. The lessons began with each skier sharing their goals for the week, and demonstrating their skiing ability with a short run. We were then placed into groups of 6 to 7 members with similar skiing abilities. For 6 days, we met from 9:45 am -12 N. We all progressed to new levels of skiing the TED Technology talk, critiques from instructors and peers, and videotaping all making the difference! Just ask one of us to show you our videotape! See the club Facebook page for awesome photos that capture the fun! Ask Steve Young if he is driving that semi down the slope. Ask any Nomad to share their favorite skiing tip from the week! Afternoons were spent with slope gatherings and conquering the blue and black runs that Taos is known for. The cold weather (single digits) and blustery winds didn t deter some of the hardiest skiers! There is chatter among the Nomads that we can t wait to go back again! Stay tuned for future trips!!
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Participation Raffle Nomad Ski Club Participation Raffle, has launched!! *Help boost membership by coming to Socials, Meetings, and events. Bring interested prospective members. * Club members will get a participation ticket for every Nomad sponsored event they attend. If a member brings a prospective member (one time for each guest/prospective member) to an event, the current member will get an additional ticket. * The club member fill out the participation ticket (name, date, and the Nomad event name). * Members will turn their ticket(s) in to a Board member for inclusion in a raffle drawing at the May 2019 Awards Night. Event leaders may submit a list of attendees for any qualifying event. * The participation raffle prize will have a value of $200.
The Spring Fling trip to Breckenridge, Colorado still has openings. We have to have names in by Feb 10. The trip runs from Saturday, April 6th to Thursday, April 11th. The cost is $995 for air, ground transportation, 5 nights lodging and 4 days of skiing. Get addition information and sign-up forms at on our website skicmsc.com under CMSC Events / Spring Fling.
February Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 FISH FRY Steve's Lounge 6:30 13200 S. Baltimore ave, Chica- 7 8 9 SuperBowl 5:30PM Socks Bar and Grill 9300 S. Roberts Road in Hickory Hills SOCIAL Joe Daniel s 12218 S. Harlem, Palos Heights at 7:30 10 11 12 13 14 Board Meeting 7:30 17 18 19 20 21 General Meeting 7:30 15 16 22 23 CMSC Chicago Week Aspen CO 24 25 26 27 28
March Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 SOCIAL Joe Daniel s 12218 S. Harlem, Palos Heights at 7:30 10 11 12 13 14 Board Meeting 7:30 17 18 19 20 21 24 General Meeting 7:30 15 16 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Board Members 2018-2019 Bob Klawitter President bobgrouch@sbcglobal.net Treasurer pamccdoc@comcast.net Fred Pajak Social Director fredpajak@comcast.net Vida Bartasius Editor/Webmaster web@chicagonomads.com Brad Briar Vice President bbriar2@gmail.com Pat Doherty Special Events Director dohertyworth@aol.com Lee Marcheschi Membership Director leejmarch@sbcglobal.net Ann Engelmann Secretary engs85@aol.com Mike Radice Midwest Trip Director michaelradice6@gmail.com Trip Cancellations: The Nomad Ski Club through its Board of Directors reserves the right to cancel trips, payments will be refunded. If trips are canceled due to circumstances beyond the control of the Nomad Ski Club, payments less expenses caused by the cancellation will be refunded. Non-Refundable Deposits: Members reserve a seat on a trip by making a non-refundable trip deposit. Non-refundable trip deposits are 10% of the trip price for Western & European trips and $35 for Midwest trips. Member Cancellations: Members who cancel their seat on a trip will forfeit the non-refundable trip deposit plus any fees or losses incurred on their behalf. If cancellation occurs after the predetermined closing date (the date the last payment is due on the trip), the full price of the trip may be charged. A cancellation form must be submitted to the Trip Leader within 30 days after the trip departs for refund consideration. Trip Waiting List: A completely full trip means all seats are filled on the bus scheduled for a Midwest trip or the minimum number of seats are filled on a Western or European trip. A member that cancels off a trip may be replaced on that trip from a waiting list, but the trip must be completely full. Canceling members that are replaced on a trip from a waiting list forfeit the non-refundable deposit plus any additional expenses incurred due to the cancellation. The excess will be refunded. Contact your Trip Leader if you have any questions. Nomad Newsletter: If you have not received your newsletter, contact our Webmaster. Web@Chicagonomads.com Membership Dues: Payable after June 1, 2016. Current membership is required to be eligible for any ski trip. Sign up with the Membership Director at any meeting. Single: (new) $30) (renewal) $25, Married Couples: (new) $40 (renewal) $35. Social Meeting: 1st Wednesday of every month at Joe Daniel s: 12218 S. Harlem, Palos Heights, IL @ 7:30 p.m. General Meeting: 3rd Thursday of every month at Gaelic Park: 6119 W. 147th St., Oak Forest, IL @ 7:30 p.m. Board Meeting: 2nd Thursday of every month, 7 p.m., location TBA. ALL MEMBERS ARE WELCOME Unsolicited articles and announcements may be submitted by contacting Scott Sanders at Web@Chicagonomads.com Deadline is 1 week before the 1st of the month. Club website: chicagonomads.com Trip Sign-ups: In person at any meeting. Trip Sign-ups: In person at any meeting