WSC Upcoming Events

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• What's New!
  
  
  • Hidden Valley—3.5 acres of new glade skiing on North Summit area, new terrain park on the bottom of Jaguar slope. After the first lesson, skiers can join regular lesson free for more instruction. First time guest after completing a lesson gets discount card valued at $200.00 on return visit. Base lodge was repainted, new carpet installed. Lift ticket, lesson and rental package for $28.00 Mondays and Tuesdays.
    
    
  • Seven Springs—New terrain park in front of base lodge. Super pipe on Alpine raised from 18 feet to Olympic size 22 feet. New beginner area called Easy Rider at the base of Stowe slope. 180-foot long Magic Carpet. New rental skis, boots, bindings—skis are called auto turn. Rocker technology makes them easier to turn. Five chairs (North Face, North Pole, Tyrol, Cortina, Blitzen) retrofitted to increase speed. Lift prices are $65.00 weekends, $49 weekdays, seniors 70-79 half price, 80 and older are free.
    
    
  • Blue Knob—5 hour flex ticket, weekend $50.00, weekday $30.00. Seniors 65-69 $40.00 weekend,$28.00 weekday. Over 70 $22.50 weekend, $16.50 weekday. Any ski club member of W. PA Ski Council can show your membership card and get a lift ticket for $28.00 weekdays.
    
    
  • Blue Knob, Hidden Valley, Wisp and Seven Springs have a pass holder exchange program on weekdays.
  
  
  
  • WPSC Learn to Ski and Snowboard Program: Seven Springs Premier Ski Instruction Programs by Steve Burns, include Bumps for Boomers, Learn to Be a Ski Instructor, Learn to Ski Thru the Direct Parallel Method, Skill Advancement, Bump & Run, Telemark Ski, and Snowboarding. Registration Sat., Jan. 7 at 9 a.m. in the ski lodge, for classes on Jan. 7 & 8, 14 & 15, 21 & 22, 28 & 29 from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. Registration Feb. 5, 9 a.m. in the ski lodge for classes on Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Cost of 8 January classes $420.00 ($25.00 discount if paid by Dec. 29). Cost of 4 February classes $210.00. Call Seven Springs 814-352-7777 ext. 7000.
  
  
  
  • Wounded Warrior Patrol— Seven Springs Resort and the seven Springs Ski Patrol are hosting 10 disabled veterans and their families from Feb. 26 to March 1. They are seeking monetary contributions. Checks made out to Wounded Warrior Patrol by Dec. 21, mail to Wounded Warrior Patrol, 30 Snow Drift Lane, Champion, PA 15622. All donations matched by Merrill Lynch Inc.
  
  
  
• Sun. Feb. 12, 2012 WPSC Ski Rally
20th Annual Ski Rally!
This is a fun event for families and all ages, includes teams of 2 to 4 people who search for clues on the mountain during a 2-hour time frame. This event is open to everyone, not just ski club members, so you can bring non-member friends or family. All rally participants can take part in the après’ event party in the Matterhorn Lounge at 4 p.m. Non-participant guests may attend the party for $10 per person.
Registration for the Rally is from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the ski lodge, and the rally is from 1 to 3 p.m. Cost is $10 per person (children 12 and under are free).
Westmoreland Ski Club co-sponsors this event with Johnstown Ski Club, and we still need a few WSC volunteers to help with registration or distributing clues on the mountain. Please contact Jack if you can help out (and you also get free admission to the party).


• Sun., Feb. 18, 2012 Celebrate Fasching!!
On FEBRUARY 18 at 4:00 p.m., WSCers will come together at the lodge to celebrate this historical tradition. Traditional Fasching food, including German beef stew (Gulasch Suppe), potato and bacon soup (Gangster Suppe), curry sausages, cheese-egg noodles (Kaese Spaetzle), plenty of finger food and desserts will be provided via authentic recipes by WSC member and German native Gesa Wellenstein who has brought this wonderful festival to our attention. As usual, you are welcome to BYOB.

COST: $4.00/Member, $6.00/Guest with food $6.00/Member, $8.00/Guest without food Please email Gesa or Brad if you have any questions about types of food to bring or plan to attend. You can also check out our Drop-box site for a list of foods, drinks or other items you can bring.

Come to the Feb. 8th meeting to find out more about the Fasching celebration!

Additional details can be found in the following
• Feb. 25-Mar. 1, 2012 Wounded Warriors
Seven Springs and the Seven Springs Ski Patrol are hosting ten Wounded Warriors from Feb. 26 to March 1st (unfortunately, the same week at the WSC Telluride trip). Volunteers and monetary contributions are being accepted at Wounded Warriors Patrol, 30 Snow Drift Lane, Champion, PA 15622


• Sun., Feb. 26, 2012 Mountain Challenge - Blue Knob
This is a Nastar event by WPSC and the Allegheny Ski and Sports Club. You can register for the event in advance for $10, or on race day for $20. Event includes lunch and awards. For more info call Steve Carpenter.


• Sat., Mar 3, 2012 Annual WPSC Council Cup
This is an inter-club event that is open to any ski club member who can snowplow down Avalanche! It’s a single run Giant Slalom and teams consist of 7 or more racers from a ski club, with a minimum of 5 males and 2 females per team. If two or more clubs have insufficient racers to form their own team, they may combine their racers and form a consolidated team. As often happens, this event coincides with the WSC ski trip—our Telluride trippers will just be coming home on this date, which depletes our number of potential racers. But if you’re not going on the trip, please consider joining a combined club team for this fun race.
Registration is at the ski lodge from 8 till 10 a.m. with the race at 11:30 a.m. This event is open to ski club members only, and WSC will pay the $10 registration fee for any of our members. An awards party will be held at the Matterhorn Lounge from 4 till 6 p.m., and winners must be present to receive prizes.
Hopefully, we’ll have more snow in February so we can take advantage of these events.



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