activity ideas, im starting a ski club at my university?

Question

Can you help me think of some fun, relatively cheap activity ideas for the ski club I'm trying to start at my university in WI? So far, I've thought of saturday trips to surrounding local hills, ski tuning clinics, and going out to dinner as a club. what else could we do?

Answer 1

Unless you have a core group that is going to be dedicated, you'll have a pretty rough time getting it off the ground.

Here's what I experienced 10-12 years ago at my school in the Poconos.Our student body was approx. 1300 undergrad students the four years I went there.

Freshman year: There were 5 of us who were serious enough to go every week to the local mountain, Montage Ski Area. We would occasionally pick up the required 10 people we needed to get the group rate, but since we skied on the same night as the other colleges in the area, they just lumped us all together and the 50 of us from 6 other schools usually had a good time.

Sophomore Year: We teamed up with skiers from four other schools and actually held bi-weekly NASTAR style races. Usually at least 4 of us from the 10 people in our school's club made it to the races on a regular basis. We usually had 30 or so racers from the five schools. It was pretty good, but our school's club was heavy with seniors. We had 1 junior and me.

Junior Year: I was left holding the bag. We were organizing an Outing Club that would encompass skiing, climbing, camping, hiking, etc. It was moderately successful as far as skiing went. But we did something smart and started working with Student Activities for promotion. We had two weekend trips open to everyone in the school, not just the Outing Club. The four of us who liked to race just raced NASTAR on our own as the other college ski clubs were also having the same problem we were with finding a core leadership.

Senior Year: We ran a few trips through Student Activities. We kept the Outing Club stuff seperate, but our dedicated skier base was down to me and two others. We handled the publicity of the trips but left the legwork up to the Student Activities Committee. They put the trips on the calendar, made the transportation arrangements, etc.

If I had to start from scratch again, I would approach the student activities committee and ask them for help from the get-go. Plan a few trips open to the whole school and then use the trip sign-up sheet as a base for starting a club.

Every year we put up signs and tried to hold meetings we would always get the same stuff: "Oh, I have class.", "I didn't see the poster." etc. etc. What that was was mostly an excuse to skip the meeting/work and just reap the rewards when we had trips.

Don't make it too complicated. Get some group rates from the local hills and then approach the activities committee with a trip proposal. See how that goes and then work from there.

Make sure you get prices for the lift-tickets, lessons, and rentals and include them in your promo stuff. Use whatever means you have to plug the trips. Make sure you have transportation and the school will cover you with insurance if necessary.

Get the info out WAY in advance and if possible, try to get a deadline about a week before the trip when the money is due. Once people pay, they are more likely to go and it will also give you a gauge of who is serious and who is just looking for an excuse to get off-campus for a few hours.

If you find that the people who go on the trips also want to do clinics, race, etc...then tackle that later.

Best of luck! I hope you can get it off the ground.

Answer 2

You could have cross-country races for fun and give out cheap prizes to the winner or have some sort of skiing competition.

Answer 3

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