Summer work parties

The Weardale Ski Club Ltd

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are all looking forward to your summer holidays, no doubt with memories of last winter fading. Without having spectacular snow we still managed quite a successful season with 17 days skiing and some of those days were excellent. We also managed to hold our BBQ which again was very successful and is hoped to be continued annually. 

Our thoughts are now turning to the summer work parties and we have quite a lot of work to be carried out before next season. We looked into the possibility of snow making at Swinhope and whilst it is a possibility we concluded that a cheaper,easier and more cost effective option is to significantly improve our snow fencing to retain the snow that we get and harvest it using our pistebasher. As a result snow fencing is one of our main jobs this summer, though the usual maintenance and repair program continues as usual, so as many hands as possible will be needed if we are to get it all done.

Provisional dates are Sunday 14 June and Saturday 27 June and Sunday 13 September and Saturday 26 September. We may also include a midweek day or two around those weekends and I will send reminder emails out a few days before each.

Finally we are looking for a volunteer to help in the production of newsletters so if anyone out there has the requisite skills and software to pull together news items into a format that can be either printed or emailed out we would be delighted to hear from you. We can produce the content, though any articles that members have that might be of interest to others are gratefully accepted, so all we are looking for is someone with the specific IT skills in the final stages. We hope to produce 3 or 4 a year, though 2 or 3 of these will be eNewsletters and only 1 or possibly 2 will be printed.

Look forward hopefully to seeing many of you over the summer.

Steve