March 3, 2025

A quick message to welcome you to a new year.  A little late as it's officially already Autumn - and certainly feels like it where I am.  We're looking forward to a good year ahead, with sound management at Whakapapa in place intending, I'm sure, to build on the great start they made last year.

The club committee met a couple of weeks ago for our annual season planning meeting - we're thinking about winter so you don't have to!  We welcome Lynne Keary to the committee.  Lynne's been a club member for some years now and we're glad to have her involved. The committee meets monthly from February to October - details are here. 

As always in the new year, we're looking for new members.  Please spread the Christie message. Word of mouth works well for a club like ours - we love to welcome friends of friends. 

Subscription invoices will be sent out in April - please let me know if your, or your family's membership details have changed. Are your juniors still juniors? Do you have family members that are in tertiary education and could benefit from Tertiary membership? Are last year's Tertiary members still eligible? It saves a lot of time if this info is processed before invoices are generated.

We have a couple of work parties coming up before the season starts:

• Pre season Maintenance work party - April 11 & 12
   

• Pre season Clean Up work party - June 27 & 28

Work parties are an essential part of club life.  Please let me know if you'd like to help out, or have any questions - email membership@skichristie.co.nz. Remember, work party attendance exempts you from the Work Party levy in your annual subs – a saving of $200 per Senior member.

The normal pre season Provisioning Work Party has proved difficult to schedule in the last few years as, due to changing DoC regulations, we're now dependent on helicopter drops to transport provisions to the lodge. Weather and availability etc. means timings of these are usually only confirmed a few days in advance. Plus we only need a small number of people to move supplies into the lodge. If you're flexible and may be able to make it to the lodge on a couple of days' notice, please contact Steve McLennan at president@skichristie.co.nz

We're still setting dates for other regular club events - keep your eye on the club calendar.

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