How does the club decide where to go skiing every year?
We start planning the next season’s trips around April. The entire skiing season is considered one “event” with a number of individual trips. We take survey information from the past years trips and use this to determine potential trips for the next season. Geography actually drives some of the trip selections, as some places are harder to get to than others. So we might go to some places only for a week, while others work well for both week and weekend trips. The board of director’s forms a trip committee whose make the initial selections, and obtain bids from tour operators. The club only uses tour operators as this has proven to be very effective in getting good package deals. Once all the bids are in, the trip committee selects the trips based on location, potential demand and cost. Trips are almost always planned every other week from January through March, which allows someone to go on all the trips (it does happen!). The committee presents the selections to the board at either t
