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May, 2023
EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Toby Kravet 808-224-1065
Vice
President - Anita Hodges
Treasurer - Jonathan Carr
Secretary - Nelson Dang
Michiro Iwanaga
Alan Teramura
Caroline Sluyter
Mike Tsutsui
Karl See
Stewart Taggart
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Newsletter Editor
Toby Kravet
(Click on Contacts for e mail addresses)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Every Monday evening (except on holidays and, of course, during Hawaii Ski Week), at 4:30 PM, a group of ski club members and their friends play tennis at Keehi Lagoon Courts, off Lagoon Drive. Stay in shape and enjoy a "careful social hour" afterwards.
May 4 (Thursday), 5 PM General Membership Meeting at Mangiamo, Navy Marine Golf Course.
June 1 (Thursday) 5 PM General Membership Meeting at Mangiamo, Navy Marine Golf Course. Please note that they will be seating us in a different location of the restaurant this one time.
Separate emails informing you of a volunteering opportunity in May and pau hanas for May and/or June may be coming. Also, like last year, we may be scheduling a party, with the food on the Club, at Rainbow Bay Marina, Pearl Harbor, for our July General Membership Meeting. Stay tuned.
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE:
For those of you who did not attend the April 6 General Membership Meeting at Mangiamo, I was re-elected for another one year term as your President and Anita Hodges, Jonathan Carr, Michiro (Mitch) Iwanaga, and Alan Teramura were re-elected for new two year terms on the Board of Directors. At our April 20 monthly board meeting, Anita agreed to continue as Vice President, Jonathan as Treasurer, and Alan to remain in his role as (loud applause please) Trips Committee Chair. We welcomed Board member Nelson Dang as our new Secretary. We have just signed a contract with Ski.com, the agent for most our mainland and Canada ski trips this past decade, for next year's trip to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, January 19 - 27, and further information as well as signup forms will be available in the near future. Further information on the trip can be found below. Also, Alan is looking at, at least, one new destination for our increasingly popular February trips to Hokkaido. With regard to ski destinations for our annual Hawaii Ski Week in January, we seem to have been doing a lot of recycling of late, and many of the presentations of possible locations for the next year's trip, i.e. nominations from the floor, at our Farewell Dinner, have not been fully "fleshed out." The time to start thinking about possible future destinations for the club should not be right at the end of the current year's trip but throughout the year so that, if you want to nominate an area, you can do the research and cover most of the bases in your presentation. Finally, with the major part of the pandemic behind us (we hope), we are planning to return to more regular pau hanas and to offer at least one group volunteering opportunity per quarter. Right now we are looking at a possible project, on a Saturday morning in May, packing food for the Hawaii Foodbank. Prior to the pandemic, groups of volunteers from the Club have packed food for Meals on Wheels, staffed booths at community events such as the long gone "Taste of Honolulu," painted the exterior of the Palolo Chinese Home, and worked on special events for the Waikiki Aquarium. If you know of a volunteering opportunity which might be good for the Club, please contact Mike Tsutsui, mike@hawaiisnowskiclub.com .
TOBY
UPCOMING SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
MANGIAMO BY 604
NAVY MARINE GOLF COURSE
943
VALKENBURGH ST.
May 4 (Thursday) 5 PM
We're back to Mangiamo for our April General Membership Meeting which also serves as our annual election for Board of Directors. Although the meeting/election won't begin until 5:30 PM, we'd like you to get there a bit earlier so you can get situated and order your food and drink. If you haven't yet been to Mangiamo, it is opposite the airport, off of Valkenburgh Street which runs between Nimitz Highway (under the viaduct) and Radford Drive. It is on the second floor of the golf course's club house. See you there.
TOBY
SKI TRIPS FOR 2023:
HAWAII SK WEEK 2024, STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO, JANUARY 19 - 27
The Trip Committee recently completed negotiations
over the details of our Hawaii Ski Week trip to Steamboat Ski Resort in
Colorado from January 19-27, 2024. This is the week after the Martin Luther
King holiday weekend and will be facilitated by Ski.com. The trip
registration website does not officially open until May, but we wanted to
provide you with the trip details. The total trip package includes group
airfare on United Airlines non-stop from HNL to DEN then a shuttle bus from
Denver to Steamboat Springs. The return flight leaves from HDN (the Hayden
Airport is 25 miles from our lodging) to HNL via DEN ($900 airfare)
Air and ground
transportation:
UA-383W Depart: HNL 1/19/2024 at
08:40pm Arrive: DEN 1/20/2024, 06:16am
Shuttle bus
from DEN to Steamboat Springs
UA-5559Q Depart: HDN
1/27/2024 at 07:25am Arrive: DEN 1/27/2024, 08:35am
UA-384Q Depart: HNL 1/27/2024 at 11:35 am Arrive: HNL 1/28/2024, 04:03 pm
Lodging, shuttle, and lift tickets:
Round trip shuttle to lodging $140.
7 nights double occupancy at the Gravity Haus $1545 (ski-in/ski-out hotel)
or the Lodge at Steamboat quad occupancy condominiums $1150
Welcome Reception and Farewell Dinner ($50)
5
days lift tickets ($645, add $129 for additional days or subtract this
amount for fewer days).
All the above are per
person prices. Add $200 pp if not in group lodging. The total package price
is as little as $2835 quad occupancy in a 2 bedroom/2 bath unit at the Lodge
at Steamboat. This is adjacent to the condos where the HSC stayed at the
last time that we went to Steamboat and is approximately 200 yards from the
base gondola.
The package
price for the Gravity Haus, which is only 50 yards from the base gondola is
$3230 double occupancy hotel room with two queen beds. Breakfast is not
included but can be ordered in the hotel restaurant. This is the same hotel
(with a new name!) that the HSC stayed at the last time we went to Steamboat
and has been recently renovated.
A $700 deposit is due July 1, 2023, and the balance
due November 15, 2023. The Ski.com cancellation policy: Individual member
cancellation received from time of booking up to:
90 days prior to departure: $50.00 per person plus any supplier penalties
89-60 days prior to departure: $100.00 per person plus any supplier
penalties
59-31 days prior to departure: $200.00
per person plus any supplier penalties
30 days or
less prior to departure: no refunds and no substitutions
More information will be posted once the registration portal is open.
ALAN
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
HAWAII SKI CLUB IS ON FACEBOOK
Facebook is the best way to keep current on the Hawaii Ski Club. On your Facebook page on your computer, type "Hawaii Ski Club" into the search box on the top left. On your mobile device, tap the magnifying glass at the top to get the search box. Pictures from Ski Club activities and other items are posted as they are submitted. You can submit your own Ski Club pictures and other items you wish posted by emailing them to anita@hawaiisnowskiclub.com
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Contributions from the membership to future newsletters are encouraged and will be greatly appreciated: Please e mail them to Toby (see Contacts) no later than 9 calendar days from the end of the month. Thanx much.
Updated club info available at http://www.hawaiisnowskiclub.com and on our Facebook page.