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July 2013
EXECUTIVE ORGANIZATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President – Toby Kravet – 808-224-1065
Vice President – Jonathan Carr
Treasurer - Geoff Chu
Cathy Lau
Jon Kleinschmidt
Momi Kleinschmidt
Roy Manzoku
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Club Historian
Jo Yee
Newsletter Editor
Toby Kravet
(Click on Contacts for e mail addresses)
CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
June 29 (Saturday) 11:45 A.M. Assisting the Institute for Human Services (IHS) in serving the noon meal to the homeless and others in need at the IHS Iwilei headquarters.
SINCE JULY 4TH FALLS ON OUR USUAL MEETING DATE, THERE WILL BE NO GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING IN JULY
July 13 (Saturday) 9:00 A.M. Hike on Tantalus: Out and back on the Kalawahine Trail to the Pauoa Flats trail and to a lookout over the Pali Highway and Nuuanu Reservoir.
July 18 (Thursday) 5:30 P.M. Board Meeting at Henry Loui's
July 19 (Friday) 4:30 P.M. Pau Hana at Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, Aloha Tower Market Place.
August 1 (Thursday) 6:00 P.M. General Membership Meeting at Seven Palms
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE:
I'll begin by wishing everyone of you a safe and happy 4th of July holiday next week.
With this issue of the Newsletter, we have twenty six or twenty seven members already signed up for Hawaii Ski Week 2014 at Sun Peaks in British Columbia, Canada. If you have not yet signed up and have misplaced the registration form, please contact Jonathan ( jonathan@hawaiisnowskiclub.com ) for another copy. As some members have had difficulty, in past years, printing the form as one complete page from our website, we have, at least thus far, not posted it on the site this year.
Since, personally, I can't wait another seven months to ski again, I will be going on my seventeenth trip to New Zealand in seven weeks. They are presently having one of the best early seasons in recent history, and I hope the present snow holds, and it keeps dumping until I get down (under). I've seen some interesting pictures, this past week, of ski patrollers tucking stray sheep onto a toboggan and into the shovel of a groomer: Only in New Zealand!!!
All who made it to the hike in Temple Valley this past Saturday enjoyed the somewhat "different" venue, and the spectacular views at the top, but I was surprised that more members, especially some more of the past hiking "regulars," didn't show up. If you are coming to the July hike on Tantalus, please carpool, if you can, as the parking from the trailhead is limited.
Also, as you can see from the above schedule, we are a little slim on activities for the near future. If you have an idea for a Club activity or just need to find some compatible company for an adventure you'd like to undertake, but not solo, please let me know, and we'll put it on the schedule.
See you at the activities and meetings.
TOBY
UPCOMING SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
MEAL SERVICE AT THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES
June 29 (Saturday) 11:45 A.M.
As of this newsletter, Roy has ten Ski Club volunteers to assist the Institute for Human Services (IHS) with their meal service on Saturday June 29 so I guess that we are now set. To those of you who are volunteering, thank you. The activity will last until 1 P.M. when we will adjourn to a nearby venue for our own lunch.
TOBY
TANTALUS HIKE
July 13 (Saturday) 9:00 A.M.
We are returning to Tantalus on July 13 for a "relatively" flat and shady hike on the Kalawahine Trail (appearing as the Pauoa side of the Manoa Cliff's trail on some older trail maps), leading onto the Pauoa Flats Trail in the back of Tantalus peak, and terminating at a lookout over the Nuuanu Reservoir and Pali Highway. The hike should take about two hours, out and back, and will have reasonably good footing until near the end where there will be multiple roots to step on and over. We will start from the confluence of Tantalus Drive, Telephone Road, and the Kalawahine trailhead. Drive mountain direction on Makiki St. from Nehoa St., and you will come to Makiki Heights Drive one block later. You will know you are there by the triangle shaped park with the Board of Water Supply building. Take a left on Makiki Heights Drive, follow it up through a hairpin turn and some switchbacks for 1.2 miles where it ends and take a right on Tantalus Drive. Go up Tantalus Drive through multiple switchbacks until you swing to the right over a bridge at about 4.1 miles from where you started clocking mileage. The road levels off at this point. You should see, straight ahead, where Tantalus Drive swings to the right again, a steep concrete road (Telephone Road) and a trail head on the left. Swing to the right with Tantalus Drive and look for parking on the side of the road: There should be some spots available on the right and a little further up, on the other side of the road, coming back from the other direction. I'll try to be there by 8: 45 to guide you in. See you on Tantalus!
TOBY
PAU HANA AT
GORDON BIERSCH BRWERY RESTAURANT
ALOHA TOWER RESTAURANT
July 19 (Friday) 4:30 P.M.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Gordon Biersch just might be Hawaii's first brewpub. When I came up with the idea for a Pau Hana there, I didn't realize it had been so long: The Club hasn't been to this venue, one of Honolulu's favorite watering holes, since May, 2007. It's about time!! Try to come, if you can, by about 4:30 P.M. to help me score a table outside in the back.
TOBY
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Seven Palms Bar and
Grill (formerly Sam Sneads)
Navy-Marine Golf Course Club House
943
Valkenburgh St., Honolulu, Hawaii
August 1 (Thursday) 6:00 P.M.
Come to our General Membership Meeting at the usual location on August 1. Although the meeting doesn't "officially" begin until 6:00 P.M., many members start coming at 5:00 for drinks, dinner, and "talking story." Also, they have re-started the reduced price dinners for two, but you need to be there by 5:30 P.M. to take advantage of it.
TOBY
HAWAII SKI WEEK 2014
SUN PEAKS, B.C., CANADA
January 17 - January 25
We are returning to Canada for Hawaii Ski Week, 2014.
Our destination, Sun Peaks, (www.sunpeaksresort.com)
is the second largest ski area in British Columbia with 3,678 acres of skiable
terrain on three different mountains. It is 10% novice, 58% intermediate, and
32% expert. The largest vertical drop is 2,894’, from 6,824’ to 3,930’.
Other activities are extensive Nordic skiing trails, a 9 acre terrain park,
snowshoe rentals (and snowshoe golf?), tube park, heli-skiing, ice skating rink,
cat-trax groomer rides, snow limo tours of the slopes, snowmobile tours, dog
sleds, and Kamloops Blazers hockey games with bus shuttle. Every Thursday there
is a shuttle to Revelstoke, an expert ski area 2 hours away.
The Sun
Peaks Village is a pedestrian only village with over 25 bars, restaurants or
coffee shops. We will be staying in the village at Nancy Greene’s Cahilty Lodge
(www.cahiltylodge.com), a ski-in, ski-out mountainside hotel with sauna, hot
tubs (one outdoor and one indoor), fitness center, wireless connection, in room
coffee, daily newspaper, and slopeside ski storage. Next door is the Sports
Centre with heated pool, hot tub and activity desk.
We have two lodging
choices: (1) a lodge room for 2 people with two queen beds and TV, or (2) a
family suite for 4 people - a lodge room with a connecting door to a studio
kitchenette which has a queen bed and either a queen Murphy bed or a sofa bed, a
counter-high refrigerator, stove, oven, microwave, dishwasher and small
appliances. All rooms come with a hot breakfast buffet in the Lodge.
We
will be flying to Kelowna, British Columbia with a connection in Seattle. The
bus from there to Sun Peaks in about 3 hours, plus a grocery stop.
The
full package price, including air, bus transfers, 5 day lift ticket, and 7
nights of lodging is $1,588 or $1,638 depending upon type lodging selected.
The land package, with the same inclusions, is $823 or $873. Senior lift
tickets (65+) are available and will reduce the price. Also, a 6th day
ticket is available.
Prices may be subject to change with the
final payment based on air fuel surcharges and the U.S./Canadian exchange rate.
The travel schedule is:
Alaska Airlines-860 V Depart: HNL 1/17/2014 10:40 pm Arrive:
SEA 1/18/2014 06:20 am
Alaska Airlines-2478 V Depart: SEA 1/18/2014
10:50 am Arrive: YLW 1/18/2014 11:55 am
Alaska Airlines-2477 L Depart:
YLW 1/25/2014 12:35 pm Arrive: SEA 1/25/2014 01:45 pm
Alaska
Airlines-859 L Depart: SEA 1/25/2014 05:45 pm Arrive: HNL 1/25/2014 09:54 pm
If you have not received a registration form via email, you may contact Jonathan@hawaiisnowskiclub.com .
TRIP COMMITTEE, TOBY
PAST SKI CLUB ACTIVITIES:
PU'U MA'ELI'ELI HIKE
Temple Valley Shopping
Center, Kahalu'u
On Saturday Morning, June 22, seven of the "usual suspects," Wanda, Peggy, Cathy and Roger, Jon and Momi, and "Your's Truly," arrived outside the Temple Valley MacDonald's for a hike up the ridge behind the shopping center to a World War II pillbox overlooking Kaneohe Bay. The whole ridge is laced with trails but is not an "official" DLNR sponsored hiking area, and keeping your bearings, without signs, can be a little difficult at times. Even though I, as "Fearless Leader," had been up the ridge twice before in the past three months, It took Jon's instinct, in a couple of instances to keep me from going off the intended route. After an initially steep climb, we hiked the rolling ridgeline to, at the end, another steep climb to the pillbox where we sat, "lolly-gagged" for half an hour, and enjoyed the approximately 340 degree view of the windward side. From the pillbox, we were looking directly out to the sandbar with Chinaman's Hat to our left and He'eia Pier, Coconut Island, and the Kaneohe Marine Base to our right. Even with all the rain we had been having, it was generally sunny for the entire hike, and the slightly moist trail on the climb up thankfully dried very nicely for the trip down. Following the hike, we had lunch at an unassuming and "cheap" eatery, the Times Coffee Shop, in the Temple Valley Shopping Center.
TOBY
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
SKIS FOR FREE
A generous Manoa Valley resident contacted our Club to give away his 2005 174 cm. Rossignols and 130 cm. poles to whomever wants them. I have a picture of the skis, and although I remember them as being somewhat popular in the mid 2000s, I don't know the model. They are shaped and on the "wide" side. If you are interested, let me know, and I'll send you a picture. If, then, you are still interested, I'll take a short drive over to pick them up for you.
TOBY
THE HAWAII SKI CLUB IS ON FACEBOOK
If you are on Facebook, add the HSC as a “friend.” You will be up-to-date with recent HSC activities that members upload. The HSC Facebook page has photos from members on ski trips and at Club activities. You can also include your personal photos and announcements relating to the club for all HSC members to view.
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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/
J