Archives for September 2020

Are you willing to serve your club by volunteering for a one year term on the Board of Directors? The commitment required for a rewarding and enjoyable experience is to attend a 2-hour board meeting once per month where you will participate in discussions about everything skiing and snow.  Most board members will also take on an additional project to help develop and enhance our club. Detailed job description here

In accordance with the club bylaws all board positions are open for nominations and election each year.  This year we will have three vacancies due to retiring board members or board members who are giving up key board positions: Secretary, Vice President, Director – Grooming

Nominations for all positions are welcome:
President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
Director – Past President
Director – Snowshoeing
Director -Youth & Masters Programs
Director – XC Junior Racing
Director – Biathlon
Director – Special Olympics
Director  – Grooming
Director  – At large
Director – At large

Please submit nominations by email to nominations@telemarknordic.com.  Nominations close on Sunday Oct 11th, 2020 at midnight. Nominations will not be accepted from the floor during the AGM.

The AGM will take place at The Telemark Nordic Centre chalet in person and by Zoom conference on Saturday October 31, 2020. If  you would like to join the AGM by Zoom please email gm@telemarknordic.com for the AGM link.

In January we informed you that we had installed an RFID tracking system to record season pass visit statistics.  Click here for the background.  Now, the promised results!

Getting right to the reason we did the project — to understand how much and when people use their season pass: by far the most season pass traffic came from the roughly 10% of people who skied weekly.  4% of the people skied 3x or more weekly.  The overall average use was almost 14 visits per season pass holder.

We installed the RFID system on December 29, so our statistics span January to April.  Historically, Christmas Eve through New Years Day are our busiest time, but we don’t have those statistics.  Note also that we only registered a “visit” when a season pass went through the 4 antennas by the lodge.  We know that the visits we recorded are lower than actual visits simply because season pass holders were not always carrying their pass.

We also did a deep dive on day passes using information gathered by our point of sale system.  While season pass users tend to favour Saturday and Tuesday (no doubt due to the youth programs!), the day pass users tend to favour Sunday.  And, we have a LOT of snowshoers!

Here are some of the interesting graphs.  Enjoy.