Many Thanks & Reminders

Thanks to the hard working people who came up to the hill yesterday to help with clearing on the trails.  Once again, the weather was perfect.  We are ready for snow!

Reminders:

Our Open House is on November 19th.  You can save $10 on your membership by registering on or before that day! We hope to see you there. Membership forms can be downloaded from the website at www.bullmountain.ca

The club is looking for volunteer groomers and we have a job posting for an operations manager.  For more information, contact Scott Gordon at 250-392-5177.

Job Posting!

The Williams Lake Cross Country Ski Club requires an "Operations Manager" at Bull Mountain.  The responsibilities that the Executive envisions for this person to have are above and beyond what can be expected in a volunteer role.  As a result, the club is advertising for a seasonal, part-time, paid position, to primarily organize grooming at Bull Mountain. We would like this person to organize our volunteer groomers as well as be a groomer himself or herself.  We anticipate that this person will monitor the trails on a day to day basis and make decisions on which trails require grooming.  He or she would then organize the volunteer pool to get the job done as well as help groom a portion of the trail system. This position will report to the Executive.

Additional duties we feel could be included in this position are:

General facility maintenance and monitoring; coordination of road and parking lot clearing; fuel storage; random ski pass checking; ensure there is heat in the clubhouse (start fire); removal of dead fall or sweeping of trees along trails; monitor and coordinate equipment maintenance.

Attributes that this person should possess are:

Computer literacy (and access to a computer), strong communication skills, mechanical aptitude, willingness to work evenings and weekends, ability to operate a snowmobile and chainsaw, enthusiasm for Bull Mountain and for improving our facility. This person doesn’t HAVE to be a cross country skier.

We anticipate needing the positon filled from mid-November 2016 to approximately mid-March 2017. Wages and hours of work are negotiable.

We welcome any interested persons to contact Scott Gordon at 250-392-5177, or at bsmb@telus.net  by NOVEMBER 4, 2016.  Also, please pass this info on to anyone who you feel may be the perfect candidate for this job!

Work Bee(s) October 30th

  Thanks to everyone who came out to help at yesterday’s work bee.  It was a beautiful day up there!       Also, thanks to those who came to our first one on October 2^nd…… 

  Unfortunately, we are needing another day-  SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30TH 10am-2PM, to finish some projects up for this year. 

  Specifically we are needing more trail widening and brushing on

•          Gunanoot
•          Arrow Head
•          Brushing and tree removal on Canyon View.

So, we need volunteers to run chain saw and volunteers to remove the fallen trees and brush from the trails.  This allows us to complete the projects quicker. We would like: 2- sawyers and 2 swampers per project –

Quads, if you have one would be great.

Please call Sean at 250-398-9588 if you are available to help.

A couple of things......

GROOMERS

We are looking for volunteer groomers to help with the grooming this year.  Snowmobile experience is not a necessity, but would be an asset.  Training will be provided.  Contact Sean Seabourne at 250-398-9588 if you can help us out.

REGISTRATION

I have emailed out registration forms to previous members.  Adult fees have gone up $10 to $110, but you can avoid the increase by registering on or before our Open House on November 19^th!  You can mail in your completed forms or bring them in to the Open House.  Also, online registration is available through Zone 4 – go to http://www.zone4.ca/ and search for the Williams Lake Cross Country Ski Club.  

EARLY REGISTRATION PRIZES

Cross Country BC has introduced a membership drive with amazing prizes for the club with the highest % of registered members by midnight on December 1^st.  (Based on last year’s registration totals.) Should we be a winning club, we will pass the prizes directly on to our members!  The link below outlines the contest.

http://www.crosscountrybc.ca/club-membership-contest-%E2%80%93-prize-giveaway

Register early so we have a chance to win!!

OCTOBER 23 – WORK BEE AT BULL MOUNTAIN 10am-2pm

• Where: Meet in the parking lot.
• Be sure to have work gloves and appropriate footwear.  The trails can be muddy.
• Specialty/Power Equipment: If you own an ATV, we would appreciate it if you brought it; the trails are soft so we ask that people walk or ride an ATV. Vehicles (other than ATV’s) will not be allowed on the trails. We need people with chain-saws and brush saws for removing brush growing up on the trails. A weed whacker is probably too light. Please note if you are bringing a chain-saw or any power equipment our safety plan obliges volunteers to wear personal protective gear (a hard hat with ear and eye protection, gloves and work boots) and faller’s pants if you are running a chain-saw.

JACKRABBITS

A reminder that online registration is NOT available for Jackrabbits and that club membership is included in the Jackrabbit fees.  There will be an information table at the Open House, and Rob will be emailing out registration forms to all of last year’s participants.