The McMillan piste opened this week. Preparations for the race began in earnest over the last few days. I’m pleased to say there has been a lot of sunshine already and there is enough snow. The snow making has remained at what appears to be full capacity since the start of the winter season. This means we have a huge and varied area to ski on.
A lot of you will have had your email about our newly offered DHO members deal from stc (www.stc.co.uk).
There are many other advantages available around the village of Wengen. Such as 10% on all food and beverages in the Wengen Classic hotels. A flat reduction at the Caprice Hotel, 10% of everything in Central Sports and 20% of rental and servicing in Ski Set. 15% off rental at Molitor and 100CHF off your next purchase if you spend 1000CHF or more. At Alpia you can enjoy 10% off rental which includes free ski and boot storage. Once you are in the village try to pop into the club room at least ambien once to collect your membership card and most importantly a note of your membership number.
As part of your ski preparations you might also want to improve your performance. So far this winter we have had a DHO Ski Development sessions every week: Maximum 8 per class, we pay 35 Swiss (per person) for a 2 to 2.5hr lesson with Ski Instructors such as Bob Eastwood or John Parsons. I already have 3 people booked in for next Monday’s afternoon session. Feel free to email me if you would like included (or more information).
From today through to next Thursday Wengen begins to fill up with school children. Initially from European International schools for races over the weekend. If you are available and willing to help with gate keeping for these races then contact Liz Moore and let her know. Then from Saturday British schools boys start arriving for the DHO British School Boys Races, there will be a reception in the DHO Club room on Sunday evening from 1730 to 1800hrs. Races through to Wednesday. For the British School boy races let me know if you could assist on Monday evening with their parallel night slalom.
The coming 10 days are all about participating and assisting. Tonight (Thursday 26th January 2017; Happy Australia Day), there will be sheets to fill in for racing or helping with races. Next Tuesday (31/1) the club will need at least 6 helpers for the Lucy Dicker Parallel night Slalom, then on Wednesday (1/2) just after the British School boys finish their GS, we need 4 or 5 in support for our Tourist Cup. Finally we will have the McMillan Downhill on Thursday (2/2) – I can use up to 20 assistants on this race.
Prize giving for all the races will be from 6pm on Thursday 2/2 in the DHO Club. we will then head down to the Bellevue Hotel for our McMillan dinner. Hopefully numbers can be finalised for this by Monday or Tuesday evening next week.
Finally we had a fantastic day over in Murren yesterday, here are a couple of pictures.
