Florida Ski Council Report November 2008
We just returned from the annual November meeting of the Florida Ski Council (FSC) in Orlando, Florida held from October 3 through November 2, 2008. In attendance this meeting were; Cathy Stahlmann as Treasurer, Bernd Meier as Vice President of Trips, Frank Sandmaier as member at large and Cindy Sandmaier as FSC Delegate.
The weekend kicked off with a Halloween themed costume and cocktail party as the welcome reception. Meetings were held all day on Saturday and half a day on Sunday. Saturday evening we had the opportunity to meet with and preview resorts and travel agencies for consideration of upcoming trips with FSC and Miami Ski Club. We met with 16 different resorts and representatives as a club.
As always, the discussion during the meetings focused on the FSC trips for the upcoming 2009 ski season and included selecting the locations / resorts for the 2010 ski season.
It seems that the economy has affected all FSC local member clubs. Many trips have been scaled back ort canceled at clubs across the state. The resorts are reporting an effect as well. Many of the resorts have been more flexible with cancelation policies and reductions in group size.
The 2009 season FSC trips include Snowmass in January, Whistler, British Colombia in February, Cortina, Italy , Japan in March and a Spring Break trip in March and Summer Camp in July to Breckenridge. The revised projected attendees for these trips are: Snowmass at 760, Whistler at 200, Cortina at 150, Japan at 70, and Breckenridge at 100 with a lot of clubs still undecided for Spring Break and 90 for the Summer Camp time frames. The party theme for Snowmass is going to be Tacky Prom and the theme for Whistler is going to be Heart party. The Miami Ski Club will be participating in the Snowmass trip. We will be looking into the possibility of joining FSC for their second Summer Camp to Breckenridge for the week of July 18 to 25, 2009. If there is an FSC trip that you would like to participate in that Miami is not attending, there may still be time to do so with another FSC club. All of the FSC member clubs offer reciprocity to each others members at official functions and trips.
The 2010 season FSC destinations selected were Telluride, CO for January 2010, Taos, NM for February 2010, Big Sky, MT for Spring Break 2010 in March or April, and Three Valleys, France for the European trip in March 2010. The Miami Ski Club is looking into participating in each of these trips based on pricing and availability of airfare plus our preferred housing at each resort destination.
The next FSC meeting is scheduled to be May 29-31, 2009 back at a favorite location, Mission Inn at Howey-in-the-Hills, FL.
Respectfully submitted, Cindy Sandmaier, FSC Delegate, November 3, 2008 |
