Re: Work Party report

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

A very successful work party was held last sunday with about 20 volunteers attending on a very pleasant day and a lot of work was carried out. One of the first improvements you may notice is drainage of the route across to the botom of F1 which gets very boggy and will hopefully be less so now after several drains have been dug in and backfilled with hardcore and gravel. We managed to get some equipment serviced and up and running again including the generator thanks to Kevin and Richard who travelled up from Huddersfield to help out again. Thanks also to Ian, Chris, Jeff, Kate, Harriet, Neal, Jack, Gavin, Derek, Scott and George as well as fellow board members who turned out (If I missed anyone out - you didnt sign the book so let me know). Other work carried out included timber treatment of the hut at the top of F2 by Harriet and Kate who seemed to get more on themselves than the hut! We also managed to widen one of the bridges which will be essential if we proceed with our hoped for "new" pistebasher and also put up some new snowfencing, built some shelves in the garage for storage etc. Thank you to all who helped.

The next work party is on Wednesday 22nd September and then Sunday 26th September (not 16th as in one of my emails) - both starting at 10am. We have more bridges to widen so need plenty of muscle.

Finally, membership renewals are coming in thick and fast and from 1st October any remaining places will be opened up to all-comers. Please pay attention to the small box at the bottom of the form - only tick it if you do not wish to receive information about special offers etc. We will never give out our database to other companies but do on occasions give address labels to Nevisport or LDMountain so that they can send out details of their discount dates for WSC members. If you have ticked this box then we will not hand out your details but that means you may not hear about any discount dates or special offers although I will try and include them in my emails.

Steve