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Newsletter May 2025
Whanganui Ski and Snowboard Club
Hut Phone: 07 892 3870
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Some Certainty Ahead!
Finally we have an operator and our future for the next decade is assured! Whakapapa Holdings have a concession to operate the ski field for the next 10years.
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It’s has been a long and difficult road to get to this place, where the passion of certain groups out stripped reality. However, we all want the same outcome, a ski field operator who will lead a team of excellent dedicated locals to operate the ski field for all of us!
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After great promise in the previous decade we have arrived at this point. Looking back, 2018 saw likely the best ski season in living memory, with weekly snowfalls from June to November, only 6 closed days the entire season and every weekend fine! The following year offered lots of promise and a new Gondala, but with 40 closed days reality bit, then COVID lockdowns, the Copland experience and the over investment and the aggressive behaviour towards the Clubs. The bookable car parking debacle, a number of poor snow seasons, no parking a the bottom of the mountain in winter, the closure of the Chateau, passionate groups pulling in different directions but all wanting the same out come and we arrive at 2025.
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Where am I going with all this, the mountain and the clubs on Whakapapa, and your club, has been the only constant through years of change and we have thrived during the last 75 plus years! We are the second oldest club on the mountain.
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The club has been built twice, we have had three new fire places, a couple of extensive refits, generations of families have passed through, we have created the best of memories for our families and friends. Our children have grown up there, they learnt how to ski ride and share. We have been incredibly lucky to have such a place we can call our own to pass on the next generation.
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But right now we are in the most critical stage of the clubs life and this will likely be the same at a lot of other clubs across the mountain.
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With new life finally being breathed into the field, we also need to breathe new life into our club. It needs to become financially stable again.
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We need new membership, we need old members coming back. We need you to support the ski field and the club by simply turning up and bringing your friends to do what we love to do, skiing and riding.
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If you do nothing this season and we have a bad season this could be our last without some type of financial input from our members, covid, a couple of poor season has severely impacted our financial reserves.
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If we will run out of funds everything you have gained over the past generations will be lost to the future generations and what you have given to your family, your children and grandchildren, and your friends will be lost forever. A distant memory. We say bugger that, what can you do? Simple…cashflow is king!
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- Renew your membership subscriptions.
- Get your friends to join.
- Organise a weekend at the club with your friends, there are no restrictions (bring non members). Booking is, first in first served
- See if your friends and their friends want to use the club even as non members.
- Buy a season pass and get committed.
- Transfer your life pass to some else who will take up the three season pass offer if you don’t want it.
- Use the club over summer! Not just in winter.
So let’s see you back at the place this winter which has given us all so much…
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