Alpine Ski Club
242 Arrowhead Road L9Y 0S1 The Blue Mountains, ON, Canada

What's for dinner this weekend? Men with Knives' is cooking up some delicious feasts perfect for a family of four this Thursday to Saturday. Order by Noon the day before either online or by emailing [email protected] and then pick up curb-side at Alpine. Don't see anything you like? Check out their menu online for a wide variety of additional options!... Men with Knives Catering / 'The Larder' #menwithknives #alpineskiclub

A popular family après activity, create your masterpiece and then enjoy a sweet treat! Winter Cookie Kits by Thornbury Bakery are available to order for curb-side pick up at Alpine on Saturday, February 20 from 2:00-4:30. Your DIY Winter Cookie Kit will contain 6 sugar cookies with an assortment of packaged royal icing, candy sprinkles & sugars for $19.99 plus HST. Email [email protected] to place your order by Tuesday, February 16.

There is endless beauty to be found across our piece of the Escarpment, where every turn presents a new view. : Thanks to snowshoe committee member, Paul Zink for the photo. #alpine60 #alpineskiclub

This weekend’s specials! Order by Noon the day before either online through the Alpine website or by emailing [email protected] and then pick up curb-side at Alpine. Don't see anything you like? Check out their menu online for a wide variety of additional options!... @menwithknivescatering #menwithknives #alpineskiclub

This week’s Apres-To-Go kit: Oysters! If oysters aren’t your thing, there are plenty of other great options when you order online with Men with Knives. Next week, stay tuned for the Robbie Burns Apres! Order online or email [email protected] for curb-side pickup next Saturday. ... #menwithknivescatering #alpineskiclub

Thank you to our Alpine community for supporting our partners and friends at Men with Knives Catering / 'The Larder'. Share a photo of you enjoying your take-out order for a chance to win next week’s Apres kit. #menwithknives #alpineskiclub

Are you ready for some football? and some delicious food?! Men with Knives Catering / 'The Larder'

A new perspective from the top of the hill. Thank you for capturing, @steuartl #alpineskiclub #alpine60

Men with Knives has got your food & beverage needs covered through the holidays and this season, whether you’re at the hill or at home. Order ready-to-go dinners, frozen entrees, après packages and cocktail kits for delivery to your door or curbside pick-up at Alpine. Refer to our food & beverage video for how to order online: https://vimeo.com/492825584... Men with Knives Catering / 'The Larder' #alpine60 #alpineskiclub #menwithknives

Let’s get outside and get creative together while we’re apart. Join our challenge to create a snowman, snow fort or snow sculpture in your backyard. Well done to those who have already built and shared their creations! CONTEST ALERT: Build your snow masterpiece get creative! Take a photo and post to Instagram or Facebook... Tag @alpineskiclub and hashtag #AlpineSnowmanChallenge One, randomly selected participant will win a gift card to Squire John’s! Deadline: Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. See more

This season we have implemented S.M.A.R.T guidelines to cover the most important things you need to know before arriving at the Club. Screening must be completed daily Masks must be worn by everyone Arrive ready to hit the slopes ... Respect the rules Teach your children For more information, head to alpineskiclub.com/covid-19. #alpineskiclub #alpine60

Looking for holiday gift ideas this Black Friday? Look no further than the online Alpine shop. Starting today, get 20% off of all Alpine-branded goods by using the discount code: Holiday2020 at checkout. Shop here: www.alpineskiclubshop.com ... *one code per customer. *code valid until December 25, 2020.

"After 60 years, a private club remains true to its roots". A new Dockside Magazine issue featuring Alpine has just hit the stands. Read, Read, Read all about it! The article focuses on celebrating our 60th anniversary, including great interviews with Alpine founding member, Hans Kent and member, Ian Wolfe. Read the article online here: https://alpineskiclub.com/d/5/alpine/8219 #alpine60 Thank you, Dockside Publishing

Name that truck!

When Alpine began, the rituals of "après-ski," the silly hats and crazy antics, the dress-up parties, the themed events, had always been part of the folklore of modern skiing, and Alpine was quick to make these off-the-hill joys available to its members. What started as "work parties" became the great social events we know and love today like Festival Day and the Dummy Downhill. In the first year of operation at Alpine, someone came up with "Fancy Hat Saturday", and in 1965 was the first Festival Day. Off-hill, they did their après-ski socializing in local restaurants and in the chalets that club members had begun building around the edges of the property. Doris Smith, one of the founding members, remarked: All you needed was a picnic table, a guitar, a wineskin, and you had a party. #alpine60

We were thrilled to welcome back our members today to kick off our 60th season! We hope to see you all here again tomorrow! #alpine60

Program registration is now open online for the 2020-21 season! Members can log into alpineskiclub.com to register today and be sure to check your inbox for more important information regarding programs this season. #alpineskiclub

Make sure to do your daily health screening before heading to the Club tomorrow. We can’t wait to see you for our opening day! #alpine60

Watch our "Welcome Back to Alpine" guided clubhouse tour video for more insight into what you can expect when you return to the Club on opening day. Our number one priority continues to be keeping our Alpine family safe and healthy, while ensuring a fantastic winter experience. We need your help with this and know we can depend on you. We can’t wait to welcome you all back to Alpine! Videography by David Stewart

By December 7, 1960 with opening day three weeks away, teams of volunteers were still frantically at work, preparing the hill. The installation of the rope tow was held up by contractors when members stepped in and offered to build the tow hut themselves. With three runs roughed in; Challenge, the Link and ABC (though some stumps still dotted the hill), the rope tow was found to be in working order and ready to accept skiers. There was no clubhouse, not even a washroom, membe...rs could ski over to Arrowhead Ranch to warm up but other than that the only refuge from bad weather were the cars in the parking lot. Crests were to be 'sewn on the right shoulder' to act as your lift ticket or badge. Now decades on, Alpine has gone from rope tows and T-bars to high-speed six-packs, from 3 runs to 36, but that spirit of joy, energy and determination that defined those early years is still very much with us. Credit to Paul Wilson & Patricia Grant for their words in The Alpine Story, our 50th anniversary book. If you don't have a copy, you can pick one up at the Club this season. Thank you to a number of members for images including Ian Wolfe, Lynda Torneck, Linda Leistner to name a few. #alpine60

The first snowflakes of the year mean ski season is around the corner. Planning is heavily underway for daytime, apres ski, take home and catering options. This... year we can't wait for the Alpine membership to get to know another part of MWK as we introduce them to our mobile kitchen AKA food truck AKA slopeside kitchen. Stay tuned for some great winter creativity as we bring the food to you this year! #slopesidetreats #alpineskiclub #eatoutside #mobilekitchen #greatpartnerships #apresski #winterwonderland #eatyourheartout #foodtruck #escarpmenteats See more

Be S.M.A.R.T. and informed before arriving at the Club tomorrow for opening day. View our S.M.A.R.T. guidelines here and for more information, visit www.alpineskiclub.com/covid-19 We can't wait to welcome you back!

In the fall of 1960, volunteer work parties would travel to Collingwood every Sunday to help develop the newly purchased property. In order to get as many hands as possible a plea in the Skidoodle wrote: "Work Party: or, An Ode to Young Hopefuls - Enjoy the beauty of Ontario Northlands! Revel in the sparkling air of Georgian Bay... blowing fresh, and invigoratingly over the scenic Blue Mountains. Sun bathe, ride horses, bring a picnic lunch stay for the weekend. And, be sure to bring along a saw, an axe, a pick, or a shovel, Because we are going to clear your Hill of unwanted trees and bush And WE NEED YOUR HELP! For those interested in staying overnight at the lodge the cost will be approximately $3.00 or $4.00 for a room. Meals extra. An item of interest for those who can make it for the weekend we hope to have a party on the Saturday night. Your executive. #alpine60 #thealpinestory #throwbackthursday

Join our team! Visit alpineskiclub.com/jobs to see all of our currently open positions in administration, programs, maintenance and operations.

Great article by Escarpment Magazine on how the ski clubs are managing and planning for the season ahead. Check it out on page 48 here: https://www.escarpmentmagazine.ca/autumn-early-winter-2020/

On this day 60 years ago, the Alpine property was purchased. After a few years as a travelling ski club, Alpine's founding members concluded that they needed a hill to call their own. The Alpine property was originally a dude ranch called Arrowhead Ranch and around 50 acres of this property was purchased for $10,000 with the deal closing on September 30, 1960. Member volunteers cleared the hill by hand, starting with Challenge, the Link, and ABC runs. Shortly after, a rope tow was installed to get our club up the hill and off the ground. The Club eventually purchased more acreage expanding our home to what it is today. #alpine60

Alpine Ski Club is 60! Alpine began in 1957 when a group of young ski enthusiasts started a travelling ski club. By 1960, they had purchased the property that we now call home and cleared the runs with their own hands. Follow along this season as we celebrate this milestone and our incredible heritage. We invite you to share your Alpine memories with us by using the hashtag #alpine60

We’re all on #TeamRoni! Check out her website at https://roniremme.com/

We’re all on #TeamRoni! Check out her website at https://roniremme.com/

A first for Alpine today as we hosted our annual general meeting virtually. Broadcast live from the Georgian Room, thank you to our board of directors, both in attendance and presenting and to our members who tuned in. Thanks also to CTRE Productions for making this possible.

We’re busy getting ready to welcome you back on opening day, here is another quick breakdown of what our operations team is working on this summer: The yellow equipment you see pictured are the valves for The Steeps’ automated snowmaking. Each one of these has the ability to automatically turn on a different snow gun by computer. Each summer, these valves must be thoroughly inspected as they are hugely important pieces of the snowmaking puzzle, here’s why: For our manual snow... guns, our snowmaking team has to go out in the harsh winter conditions to turn on the guns, which can be a tedious process. This automation is much more efficient as it allows us to take advantage of temperature differences and also start up quicker and run longer when it warms up. It will also regulate the water flow to each gun based on the temperature outside, sending more water when the temperature is cooler and less water when the temperature is warmer. This outside temperature is referred to as ‘wet bulb temperature’. This takes into account the air temperature and relative humidity, as snowmaking is much easier when the humidity level is low. The wet bulb temperature is always lower than the outside temperature. This is only a very small part of the complicated and important process of making snow! #alpineskiclub See more

Keeping Alpine running is a year-round endeavor and our staff are hard at work getting us ready to re-open this winter. You might think things quiet down here in the hot, summer months but our operations team are as busy in the off-season as they are in the winter. Here is a quick education on some projects our team is working on: As skiers and snowboarders, we cherish chairlifts in order to access our winter passion but often the intricacies of these magnificent machines ar...e overlooked. When the lifts stop turning on closing day they don’t just sit idly all summer, in fact that is when the work begins. Alpine has two types of chairs; fixed grip and detachable grip (high speed). Fixed grip lifts can run up to 450 ft/minute, while detachable grip lifts can run up to 1,000 ft/minute. Every summer the lifts team takes the chairs off the lift one by one. The grips are then removed and collected for testing. By law, 20% of these grips must be checked annually, Alpine checks 33% of our detachable grips. This ensures that each gets checked once every 3 years. Each grip is given what is called ‘non-destructive testing’, which includes the use of black lights, ultrasounds and magnets to search for any cracks or imperfections. Once all of these grips have passed the test the chairs are ready to get placed back on the line and we are one step closer to opening day! Stay tuned for another operations update next week. Pictured are the chairs, grips and Mark D., Alpine’s lift mechanic working his magic. Once you take your first ride up a lift your life will be changed forever Warren Miller.

Happy Father’s Day to all of our ski and snowboard dads. Thanks for memories like these... I’ve been a member of Alpine my entire life. My dad was one of founding members. In the early years, he with a group of friends spent their weekends at Alpine clearing trees, recruiting new members, and most importantly, socializing. Looking at the photos from the early 1960s through the 1980s, it is clear that the family spirit of Alpine has been constant from its inception. In spit...e of all the changes that I have seen at Alpine in over 40 years, in the most important ways, it is the same place where I grew up. There are several vivid memories that immediately come to mind. Sitting on the rooftop deck after a full day of skiing with my dad in the 1970s. The feeling of freedom and independence of skiing all day with my brothers away from the watchful eyes of my parents is, the same feeling hundreds of kids still feel every weekend. Hearing AM radio played by the lifties on the North (now Millennium) chair which to this day when I hear a Billy Joel song brings me right back to that lift line. More recently, every weekend morning when my son meets up with his race team, it is near the same spot where my wife and I were married on the deck of the old chalet. I feel proud and privileged to be a life-long, three-generation member of the Alpine family with a strong connection its history and heritage. Photos and story by Ian Wolfe 2020 Skidoodle Magazine Everyone’s Happy Place #happyfathersday #alpineskiclub #wearefamily

Pick up a Dockside Magazine today to catch their article on Alpine and the strong community we have built over the last 60 years as a club. The efforts of those first members created some fabulous ski runs. But more than that, they also helped set the tone of the club as a place where people get involved, support each other, and participate Because club members are surrounded by people who share their passion and who see each other nearly every week as they coach, volu...nteer, and ski with their families there is an abiding sense of community. Dockside Publishing Read online here (page 11): http://www.docksidemagazine.ca/summer2020sgb/index.html #wearefamily #alpineskiclub

Thank you only begins to reflect our appreciation to the front-line and essential service workers keeping us safe and healthy. Comment below with an essential worker in the Alpine community that you think deserves some recognition and thanks! #everydayheroes #thankyou #wearefamily

Ski coach Tak Watanabe has put together some awesome exercise videos for our athletes (and skiers and snowboarders of all ages). Check out these great core training and balance videos and find other great exercises on his YouTube Channel: Skier Samurai. https://youtu.be/_lEiDFui6-4 https://youtu.be/OxukA5a6TD0... #wearefamily

To all of our ski and snowboard moms out there, happy mother’s day! #wearefamily #alpineskiclub