Survey for 2013/2014 – Yoho is going to the Dogs

The Kicking Horse Ski Club is contemplating allowing dogs on all of our ski trails starting in the 2013/2014 season. The decision will be made based on feedback from the users of the trails, so please fill out the survey to cast your vote.

Of course Dogs need to be on a leash at all times in the National Parks and the owners must pick up after their dogs and dispose of it in the garbage bins. They should also put extra $$ in the donation boxes to help pay for resetting the trails more often. Maybe we’ll sell dog memberships? Who knows?

We will post comments next fall with the output of the survey, so pass this around to your skier friends/dog owners. And should it be that Dogs ARE allowed, it will be on a trial basis for the first year.

The survey can be found here.

KHSC Fund Raising Dinner Menu 2013

Saturday, February 2, 2013

5 PM – Traditional Raclette with BC Wine Tasting by Dominique Guyot & Bruce Park: Lake View Wines
6:30 PM – Dinner Buffet

  • Bacon wrapped & brined “Sunderland Family Farm” pork tenderloin medallions with organic BC quince glaze
  • Potatoes Dauphinoise
  • Maple baked organic squash – Parson’s Farm-Keremeos, BC
  • Braised balsamic red sugar beets – Greencroft Gardens, Grinrod, BC
  • Dark organic miso, apple & ginger gravy
  • Roast pepper, cauliflower and cashew salad

Dessert Buffet

  • Scrumptious delicacies from “Panino Bakery” Canmore, AB – CRMR

Chefs

Val Morrison: Emerald Lake Lodge (CRMR)
Sean Cunningham: Truffle Pigs
Everett Cooper: Truffle Pigs
Steven Lay: Cathedral Mountain Lodge

Tickets

Tickets sold @ door are $30.00
$5.00 for kid’s (12 under) pizza 5-6 PM
And $5.00 discount per membership card!

Membership “PERKS” for 2013

✔ Free coach guided moon light ski – January, February and March
✔ Free lesson/tour with our coach – January, February and March
✔ Emerald Lake Lodge room promotion – midweek $89.00
+ Emerald Lake lodge initiated and pays for your tracks in the Emerald Lake Area
✔ Emerald Sports gift items 10% discount and a free apple cider
✔ Kicking Horse Lodge room promotion is $75.00 or $85.00 every day
+ $5.00 gets donated to the Ski Club per room night
✔ Free KHSC sticker
✔ Annual fundraiser dinner discount – $5.00 off regular price
✔ Knowing you are contributing to buy our own sled & groomer — again!
✔ Unlimited use of all the x-c benches on Yoho Ski Trails!

Enjoy your ski and bring your membership card with you!

Thinking winter!!!

KHSC is back!  And we have our first Member for this year!

Skier Bob form Calgary’s  www.skihere.ca—Mr Truman himself is # 1 on our list @ $40.00 per member.  Bob is adding a link to his own website to promote the KHSC in our endeavor to get back on our “skis” again.

Stay tuned as we update our website…..Marilyn

An Update for Winter 2013

Just a quick update to let you know that there will be track set trails in Yoho this winter; for sure at Emerald Lake and no doubt from Field as well.

Emerald Lake Lodge, Emerald Sports and the Ski Club have set up a draft volunteer agreement with Parks Canada. This agreement is for one year to allow Parks to lend us the equipment for trails up at the lake. Parks will be lending a sled and groomer to keep (as usual) by the boat shed at Emerald and the Lodge will provide the gasoline for this area. The Lodge will pay a person to track set the Emerald Area, as per the draft volunteer agreement with Parks Canada. Parks will also do free training sessions for the use of the equipment (when these sessions come available). And Parks will do the regular maintenance on the sled for free, so far so good!

Emerald Lake Lodge have a couple potential employees on site to track set occasionally and we gave them a few names of Fieldites who are also interested in doing the track setting as a winter job. Still lot’s to be worked out but this is all good news.

Therefore to break it down

  • There will be ski tracks at Emerald Lake for sure
  • The Field Ski Club has $ in with the FRAA to set tracks in the valley
  • An amendment to the existing agreement can be added at any time
  • High priority would be the Info Centre to the Otterhead (we would need to set up the insurance we had 2 years ago)
  • And need a trailer to haul the Parks machine
  • Takakkaw Falls road?

Nice to look on the bright side for a change…

Of course the usual will happen with fundraising, membership price raised etc. because we don’t want to run the existing account dry. We will need new blood, new ideas for all this to happen.

Denise and Marilyn will resign as Club Chiefs by next spring, so we’ll have a meeting this fall.

Read the Calgary Herald Article

Annual Dinner Menu 2012

March 10th, 2012 @ the Field Community Center. Doors open at 5 pm, dinner at 6 pm and a cash bar.

Dinner Menu

From chef Alex MacNeill and Carmen of the Truffle Pigs Bistro

Salads

Artisan green salad – carrots, red onion, tomatoes, vinaigrette
Sweet cabbage salad – red cabbage, feta, sunflower seed, sesame vinaigrette

Main

Beef roast, horseradish, sweet potato puree, broccolini
Turkey, oven roasted stuffing, roasted baby potatoes, carrots, cranberry sauce

Vegetarian

Mediterranean pasta – Penne, feta, olives, fresh basil, tomatoes, capers

Dessert

Various scrumptious bars and pastries

Kids Menu

Chicken fingers, veggies and cupcakes