8th Annual Ski Trip - Lake Tahoe, CA/NV (Heavenly)

February 28 - March 2, 2003 (South Lake Tahoe, CA/NV)
This year's trip will be at Heavenly Lake Tahoe. Since many of you are already on the west coast, it won't be quite the new adventure as it usually is, but I'm sure we won't be lacking in ideas on what to do for apres ski activities with the casinos, restaurants and nightlife so close by. South Lake Tahoe has some of the best views you'll ever see on skis.

Heavenly Lake Tahoe | Getting to Heavenly | Snow Conditions | Ski Resort Trail Map | Tahoe Resorts

	Heavenly Mountain Statistics Summit: 10,040 feet Vertical Drop: 3,500 feet Lifts: 29 (17 in CA, 12 in NV) Skiiable Acres: 1084 Trails: 85
	Tentative Schedule *Fri 2/28/03: Drive to South Lake Tahoe from San Francisco. Early groups drive up and will ski a half day at Sierra-at-Tahoe. Tubing option is available as well. Check-in, hottub, apres ski activities. Later group can call to find out where they've gone and meet up when getting into town. Sat 3/01/03: SKI, hottub, apres ski activities, Group Dinner at Riva Grill on the Lake at 7:30pm, Casinos Sun 3/02/03*: SKI and head back to SF to catch flights for the out of towners Please voice any other plans or suggestions
	RSVP If you'd still like to go, send me an e-mail and we may be able to find some room on the floor for you.
	Lodging Lakeland Village Beach & Mountain Resort \| 800-822-5969 \| Map and Driving Directions A 3 story 4BR 3BA townhome located in the Pinegrove area. The entry level has a master bedroom with master bath. There are two additional bedrooms and a second full bath. The second level has a fully equipped kitchen with breakfast counter, a dining/living room with fireplace and private balcony deck,a 3rd full bath and 4th bedroom. The third level is a 1/2 wall sleeping loft with bedding for 2. Amenities include a hair dryer, coffee, iron & ironing board, and daily housekeeping. There are no lake views associated with this townhome type. Bring your swimwear as they have a heated outdoor pool, 2 jacuzzis and a sauna Thanks to Anish, who made the reservations and secured the lodge for us! He's requested an early check-in time of 1pm on Friday for anyone who wants to head up early. Total cost is $904 which works out to about $33.50/person/night.
	Transportation We won't be needing any rental cars as those in the Bay Area have graciously offered to drive. I have the following cars thus far:

Driver	When Leave	Passengers
Anish	Friday 8am	Holly, Evan, Will
Oie Lian	Friday 10am	Cindy, Chris, Jody
Sean	Friday 4 pm	Christine
Shirphone	Friday 6pm	Howard, Hetty
Tom	Friday 9pm
John	Saturday 12pm

Lift Tickets and Rentals
We can get $55 lift tickets from the front desk of the lodge, a savings of $4 compared to buying them at the lifts. Not too sure about costs of rentals but they should be readily available in town or at the base.
Cindy found a better deal. $49 tickets at Albertsons. We will coordinate to find volunteers to buy tickets for the entire group.

UPDATES
02/25/03: Cindy found the Albertson's $49 ticket deal and we now have 7:30 dinner reservations on Saturday at Riva Grill on the Lake

02/18/03: Created this web page and participants page so those who aren't familiar with who's going can get a better sense of who they'll be hanging out with--for better or worse... =)

02/16/03: Welcome to this year's 8th Annual Ski Trip! For those that have been a part of these trips in the past, welcome back, and for those who haven't been on these yet, I hope it'll be a lot of fun =) We have a total of 14 this year which is the 2nd largest trip to date, only surpassed by the '99 Lake Louise/Banff trip where we had 17.

02/09/03: There are 10 of us confirmed with possibly a few more. Looks like we may not need to rent any cars as there are enough folks going from SF to get everyone out there.

02/01/03: Selection of Lake Tahoe, CA/NV as this year's Ski Trip Destination. Southwest CO was a serious contender with Telluride and Durango, but airfare out there was too expensive given the short notice. Same was true for Sun Valley, ID.