Welcome to the Battle Creek
Ski Club - 2025-2026
Web site updated on Dec 23
INTERESTING INFO AND HAPPENING -Changes in Boyne rewards program
Welcome to the new year (we know it's a little early). We hope everyone had a great Christmas and a safe New Year.
New January Kalamazoo meeting location is at The Four Points by Sheraton on Cork St in Kalamazoo. This is will be our General Meeting venue for the months of January thru April. Meetings will take place in their Potters Lounge. Hope to see all your smiling faces. You can use to map to get directions from your location. Social hour begins 6:30 PM and meeting starts at 7:00 PM SHARP!!
PROGRAM FOR JANUARY
At this Meeting we will be within a month of the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics in Italy. We will be showing a small collection of videos introducing the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympics. Italy has hosted a total of three Olympics, and 2026 will be their third winter Olympics. What makes this so special is that it will be the first Winter Olympics spread across several regions. The opening ceremony will be held at the Milano San Siro Olympic Stadium and the closing ceremony will be in the Verona Arena, a Roman amphitheater.
For the first time there will be two Olympic Cauldrons, one in Milan and the other in Cortina d’Amprezzo, a ski resort town in the heart of Dolomites. The two Mascots of the 2026 Winter Olympics were named Tina and Milo, after Cortina and Milan and the motto of these Olympics is “IT’s Your Vibe” for Italy and versatility. Cortina has an interesting history; it was the site of the first ever televised Olympics broadcasted on TV in 1956 and it is the host to one of the biggest women’s Alpine ski race.
The 2026 Winter Olympics is the first Olympics to include the sport of Ski Mountaineering or SKIMO. What is SKIMO? Come to the Meeting on January 13th to find out!
We have included a couple of links for the new 2023 ski gear on the new "Additional pages tab / Ski related web sites and info page" for all of you looking for new skis and other ski stuff. Please forward any ski related web sites for consideration to be include on this page to Joe Dill (joedill2004@ameritech.net).
Check out the two new links on the "Ski related web sites and info" page - backcountry skiing and shipping Skis.
