ski breeze june 2016 volume 78, issue 1

SKI BREEZE

www.longbeachskiclub.org June 2016 Volume 78, Issue 1

Kris’ Kolumn

Confessions. Confessions are good for the soul.

Confessions are cathartic.

Summer. Summer is good for the soul. Summers are cathartic.

Just when you think you can’t take any more winter (or when you think you’d take it if

it went on forever), summer comes along and melts your soul down to the core. Summer forces you to realize that most of the world is in HOT regions (at least most of

the year).

Most of all, summer gives you the opportunity to cram all that warm-weather stuff into a few short months. But, not all summers are created equal. Last year, summer went

from April thru November and was nice’n toasty. This year, summer hasn’t really reared its head – or anything else.

Let’s face it, we sell off these great days of sailing on our wonderful boats, but cannot

invite people out (yet), because it’s just too dang chilly. Maybe, we could advertise outings as s’mores on the ocean and roast marsh mellows over the BBQ!

So, I must confess that I’ve been kinda day dreamin’, pondering the good ol’ hot summer days, weeks, months, and praying that we’re in for one heck of a summer!

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Rock-on Roberto and Cynthia with your schedule of activities for the summer and Gary and Yvonne, too, with all those Friday night bands in the parks! Rock-on with the beer,

wine, and other (?) festivals in Mammoth and around town! Rock-on with Long Beach

Ski Club BBQs, Pool Parties, Wine Tastings, and (dare I suggest it?) Pig Roasts!

Rock-on with keeping in or getting into shape for the next ski season! Start with chair

yoga, move onto regular yoga, and workouts at the gym … then maybe, at the beach or in the ocean. Such an appetite for breakfast after an hour of hard sweating at the

gym or after snorkeling around a good portion of Catalina Island!

I am inviting you all to join the Long Beach Ski Club for another fantastic summer treasure trove of happenings, activities, and Fun-in-the-Sun! And yes, the Sun and the

heat will get here! Your President guarantees it!

Cheers!

Kris


Ecco’s Pizza

2123 Bellflower Blvd.

Long Beach, CA 90815

(562) 597 - 3357

Bring friends, coworkers,

family members,

boarders & skiers.

Everyone is welcome!


About LBSC: The Long Beach Ski Club is a friendly community of adults involved in skiing, boarding and year round recreational

social activities.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President Kris Flaig

[email protected]

V.P. of Week Trips Robert ( Shep ) Shepard

[email protected]

V.P. of Weekend Trips Roberto Tovar

[email protected]

V.P. of Competition Craig Gibson

[email protected]

Social & Public Relations Lance Liebl

(562 ) 221 - 8475

Treasurer Ziba Gibson

[email protected]

Secretary Letty Gonzales

[email protected]

Ways & Means Brian Maloney

L.A. Council Rep Mark Malan

Membership Craig Gibson

[email protected]

Ski Breeze Editor Cynthia Carter/Jodi Hein

[email protected]

Webmaster Dana Hart

[email protected]

The Ski Breeze is a monthly publication for the Long Beach Ski Club, published since 1938. The Ski Breeze is a controlled circulation

publication distributed to active/currently paid and subscription only members of the Long Beach Ski Club.

Email submissions to : [email protected] by the 20 th.

LONG BEACH SKI CLUB www.longbeachskiclub.org

Snowboarding & Skiing – All levels welcome Mammoth Mountain Weekend Trips

Week - Long Destination Trips Social & Recreational Events

Long Beach Ski Club contact info

Give them out to friends and people you meet. If you want some mailed to you drop Craig a line at:

[email protected]


May 2016 LBSC Ski Club Trip Report By Bob & Tara Shepard

We are still looking at two different Ski Resorts for the 2017 Week Ski. We are hoping

to get the cost on these two resorts soon. However, we now need all of the Long

Beach Ski Club members to select which Ski Resort you would prefer to sign-up for.

Hopefully, the trip will be scheduled for the first week of February for the 2017 Week

Ski Trip. Go to both their websites attached below for more information.

Choices are as follows:

BIG SKY, Montana Big White, Canada

http://bigskyresort.com/ http://www.bigwhite.com/geo/ca/

Email your selection now to Shep at: [email protected]

If anyone feels they can host the Aspen Pot Luck Photo Party, please contact Shep as

soon as possible at his Email address: [email protected]

Hope you all will be at the June 1st LBSC General Meeting, at Ecco’s in Los Altos on

Bellflower at 7:00pm, for a little Pizza and if you are lucky…. a bottle of wine!

Shep & Tara

http://bigskyresort.com/

http://www.bigwhite.com/geo/ca/

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


Craig’s Crag …

By Craig Gibson

‘Looking Back and Looking Forward’

Our mid-April mailer

was a success! It

yielded 55 early

membership

renewals, 39 Dinner

Dance reservations

and a large amount

of completed ballots.

Despite this success

35 members, as yet,

have not renewed.


Some of our members, logically so, assume that membership coincides with the regular

January through December calendar year. It does not. Our membership spans from

June 1 until May 31- dates which coincide more with the annual ski season.

If you have not

renewed your

membership,

please take a

moment and scroll

down to the

bottom of this

publication, print

it out, and send it

in to the address

indicated.

Before you

know it, you

will be back

gigging with

this merry

band and

having

more fun

than you

can shake a

stick at.


Here’s to the start of another

great year!

Craig


Get Loose with Lance By Lance

The annual dinner dance was a

great success and the ‘Aloha Boys’

were there to make sure everyone

signed in and received their

dinner choices for this special

evening. About 40 members

attended and enjoyed their

dinners and comradery!

Aloha Boys were also busy

ensuring memberships were

renewed & paid for, sold raffle

tickets and had everyone sign

away their first born…just kidding.

Bouquets of flowers were given to recipients for various positions


There was also a raffle table filled with

many prizes and bid sheets.

Visit our website for pictures showing

all recipients and their prizes!


And of course, we ended our evening by bidding farewell to our outgoing board

members from 2015-2016.

We will be having a wine tasting on Saturday, June 18th at 5pm. Event will be at the

Wine Crush, located 3131 E. Broadway in Long Beach. Please bring an appetizer to

share. A flyer will be sent out soon with details.

Lance


Events for the Summer By Roberto Tovar

More summer fun events! June 4th Shipkicker

Country music and the Queen Mary! 1126 Queens Highway, Long Beach queenmary.com June 4th Horse Town Brew 'n' Que Festival Beers and BBQ in Horse Town, USA George Ingalls Equestrian Event Center, Norco (951) 444-1280 brewnquefestival.com June 4th Taste of the Town-Dazzling Jubilee, Fullerton Food and beverages from 26 local restaurants. Downtown Plaza, Fullerton (714) 526-5124 assistanceleague.org/fullerton/taste-of-the-town June 11-12 San Diego Festival of the Arts All manner of arts and crafts Waterfront Park, San Diego (619) 744-0534 Sdfestivalofthearts.org June 18-19 Big Irish Fair and Music-Fest All things Irish in Long Beach! El Dorado Park, Long Beach (877) 740-9888 irishfair.org


June 19th Mammoth Half-Marathon and 5 K Downhill and Fast! Horseshoe Lake to Old Mammoth Road Mammoth Lakes (740) 937-2406 mammothhalfmarathon.com As a reminder, these are not official club events, but enjoy anyway. Roberto


LOS ANGELES COUNCIL OF SKI CLUBS …

Here are links to other ski clubs in the Los Angeles area who belong to the LA Council.

Feel free to visit their websites and discover other local activities as well as ski trips!

OTHER CLUBS WHERE CONTACT INFO

Various

Events Various

Locations

AEA (Aerospace) Ski Club, South Bay

http://aeaclubs.org/ski

Various

Events Various

Locations

Auslich Ski Club,

[email protected]

Various

Events Various

Locations

Beach Cities Ski Club

http://bcskiclub.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Century City Ski Club, Westside LA

http://ccscsports.org/main/

Various

Events Various

Locations

Conejo Ski Club, Thousand Oaks

http://www.conejoskiclub.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Edelweiss Ski & Sport Club, San Fernando

http://www.edelweissskiclub.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

4 Seasons West Ski & Snowboard, LA Area

http://4sw.com/activities/

Various

Events Various

Locations

Grindelwald Ski Club, Los Angeles

http://www.grindelwaldskiclub.org/

Various

Events Various

Locations

Kronenstadt Ski Club, Pasadena

http://kronenstadtskiclub.com

http://kronenstadtskiclub.com/


OTHER CLUBS WHERE CONTACT INFO

Various

Events Various

Locations

Over the Hill Gang of LA

http://www.overthehillganglosangeles.org/

Various

Events Various

Locations

Saga Ski Club, Los Angeles

http://www.sagala.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Single Ski Club of LA, Marina Del Rey

http://www.singleskiclub.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Snowbusters Ski Club, Pasadena

http://www.snowbusters.com

Various

Events Various

Locations

Space Park Ski & Snowboard Club, Redondo Beach

http://spaceparkskiandsnowboardclub.org/

Various

Events Various

Locations

The Unrecables, Los Angeles

http://www.unrecables.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Wailers Ski, Snowboard & Social Club

San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles

http://www.wailersskiclub.org

Various

Events Various

Locations

Westwood Ski Club, West LA

http://westwoodskiclub.org/

Various

Events Various

Locations

Winter Fox Ski Club

http://winterfox.org/calendar/

ALL LA Ski

Council Clubs

LA

http://www.lacouncil.org/Club_History.html

http://spaceparkskiandsnowboardclub.org/


JUNE BIRTHDAYS!

Ken Kawahara June 5th

Peter Reum June 6th

Belinda Crawford June 13th

Karen Shenghui June 21st

Barbara Nelson June 25th

Rowland Lohman June 25th


Calendar of Events

JUNE 2016

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 General &

Board Meeting

Ecco's Pizza 7 PM

2

3 4

5 6 LA Council

El Torito Happy

Hour

7 8 Board Meeting 4644 Katella Ave.

Los Alamitos 7pm

9 10

11

12 13 14 15

16 17 18 Wine Tasting

5pm @

Wine Crush

19 20 21 22 23 24 25

26 27 28 29 30

JULY 2016

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

3 4 LA Council

Philippe’s

Downtown LA

5 6 General Meeting Ecco's Pizza

7 PM

7 8

9

10 11 12 13 Board Meeting 4644 Katella Ave.

Los Alamitos 7pm

14

15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

31


Long Beach Ski Club

Membership application and Waiver

June 1, 2016 – May 31, 2017

New Member

Renewing Member

Member Since __________

Personal Information

Sex: M F

Birthday

____/____

(Mo/Day)

21 – 29

30 – 39

40 – 49

50 – 59

60 +

Top Three Activities (after skiing):

1 _______________

2 _______________

3 _______________

Other favorites (circle):

wine tasting dining tennis

table tennis bicycling sailing

hiking camping RVing bikes

computers gardening cooking

museums fine art concerts

live theatre volleyball softball

travel (specify) _______________

cards (specify) _______________

other ______________________

Each Member must complete this Application

*Couples: each must complete a separate Application*

Name: _______________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________ Apt.: ____________

City: ________________________________ State: ________ Zip: ____________

Email (required):

___________________________________________________________

Phone: Home ( ) ____________ Cell ( ) ____________ Work ( ) _____________

Occupation:

_______________________________________________________________

Person to be notified in case of emergency

Name: _________________________________Relationship: __________________

Phone: Home ( ) ____________ Cell ( ) ____________ Work ( ) _____________

Spouse’s/couple’s Name:

_____________________________________________________

I agree to comply with the club’s By-laws and waivers:

Signature of Applicant:

_______________________________________________________

Dues

Single: $40.00 Couples: $56.00 Couples can attach their applications and waivers together.

Application is not valid unless the attached waiver is completed

and signed.

Mail Application to

Long Beach Ski Club, Inc.

c/o PO Box 15291


Date Rec’d

_____/_____/_____

Cash

Check # ______


Long Beach Ski Club Inc.

PLEASE READ AND BE CERTAIN YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF SIGNING

RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAVER OF CLAIMS, EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND

INDEMNITY AGREEMENT

I ________________________________________ do hereby affirm and acknowledge that I have been

fully informed of the inherent hazards and risks associated with Winter Sports Activities, including travel to and

from winter designations. I fully understand that these risks can lead to severe injury and even loss of life. I

further understand that:

1. Risk of injury from the activity and equipment utilized is significant including the potential for broken

bones, severe injuries to the head, neck, and back or other bodily injuries that may result in permanent

disability and death.

2. Possible equipment failure and/or malfunction or misuse of my own or others’ equipment.

3. I AGREE THAT I WILL WEAR APPROVED PROTECTIVE GEAR AS DECREED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE

SPORT I AM PARTICIPATING IN. However, protective gear cannot guarantee the participant’s safety. I

further agree that no helmet can protect the wearer against all potential head injuries or prevent injury to

the wearers face, neck or spinal cord. Failure to wear a helmet may result in denial of any claim(s) against

the Long Beach Ski Club Inc. and its insurance provider.

4. Variation and/or steepness of terrain, variation or changes in surfaces including but not limited to snow

surfaces, ice, bare spots, rocks, stumps, debris, cliffs, trees, fences, posts, trees, light poles, signs, buildings,

roads, walkways, ramps, rails, stairs, pyramids, manual pads, bowls, half-pipes, jumps, padded and non-

padded barriers, other persons, and other natural and man-made hazards.

5. My own negligence and/or the negligence of others, including but not limited to operator error and guide

decision making including misjudging terrain, weather, riding surfaces or other obstacles.

6. Exposure to the elements and temperature extremes may result in frostnip, frostbite, heat exhaustion,

heat stroke, sunburn, hypothermia and dehydration.

7. Dangers associated with exposure to natural elements include but are not limited to avalanche, rock fall,

inclement weather, thunder and lightning, severe and or varies wind, temperature and other weather

conditions.

I understand the description of these risks is not complete and unknown or unanticipated risks may result in

injury, illness, or death. Nevertheless, I wish to proceed and I freely accept and expressly assume all risk,

dangers, and hazards that may arise from such activities which could result in personal injury, loss of life and

property damage to me.


Long Beach Ski Club Inc.

PLEASE READ AND BE CERTAIN YOU UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF SIGNING

RELEASE OF LIABILITY, WAVER OF CLAIMS, EXPRESS ASSUMPTION OF RISK AND

INDEMNITY AGREEMENT

In consideration of being allowed to participate in Long Beach Ski Club activities, I hereby agree as follows:

8. To waive and release any and all claims based upon negligence, active or passive with the exception of intentional, wanton or willful misconduct that I may have in the future against Long Beach Ski Club Inc., their officers, directors, employees, representatives, agents, and volunteers from liability and responsibility whatsoever and for any claims or causes of action that I, my estate, heirs, survivors, executors, or assigns may have for personal injury, property damage, or wrongful death arising from the above activities whether caused by active or passive negligence of the Long Bea Ski Club Inc. or otherwise. 9. By executing this document, I agree to hold Long Beach Ski Club Inc. harmless and indemnify them in conjunction with any injury, disability, death, or loss or damage to person or property that may occur as a result of my engaging in the above activities. 10. By entering into this agreement, I am not relying on any oral or written representation or statements made by the Long Beach Ski Club Inc., other than what is set forth in this agreement. I further agree that this Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States of America. 11. If any provision, section, subsection, clause or phrase of this release is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that portion shall be severed from this contract. The remainder of this contract will then be construed as though the unenforceable portion had never been contained in this document. I hereby declare that I am of legal age and am competent to sign this Agreement or, if not, that my parent or legal guardian shall sign on my behalf, and that my parent or legal guardian is in complete understanding and concurrence with this agreement.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT, I UNDERSTAND IT, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY IT.

Signature of Participant _____________________________________________ Date _______________

Signature of Parent or Guardian if Participant is a Minor, and by their signature they, on my behalf release all claims that both they and I have. _____________________________ Date ______________


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