An invitation to ISHA’s
17th Annual
SKIING HERITAGE WEEK

Aspen, Colorado
March 30-April 4, 2008

Mark your calendars! The place and dates for Skiing Heritage Week 2008 are set. Aspen is the place, the Hotel Jerome is our host hotel and the dates are Sunday, March 30 to Friday, April 4.

We have received great support from the folks in Aspen. The rates are very close to 2007, which is remarkable since rooms at the Hotel Jerome normally are upwards of $450/night. Events are shaping up nicely. Plan on skiing several mountains with local guides and dining in some of Aspen's beautiful and historical sites.

Reservations:
Phone: 800-675-1298
Book online here at https://isha.bookaspensnowmass.com

Pricing: $1499 double; $1995 single
Includes:
5 nights lodging at the Hotel Jerome
5 continental breakfasts
4 days lift tickets with guides
transportation to the various mountains (Aspen Highlands, Snowmass etc..)
4 dinners (including the $150 gala)
2 lunches


3 and 4 night packages are available

An events only (no lifts or lodging) package is available by calling the same number ($425 includes 4 dinners, including the $150 gala, 2 lunches, 1 reception)
Individual events may also be purchased.

I.S.H.A. Gatherings 1992-2007

1992 at Whistler
1993 at Sun Valley
1994 at Park City
1995 at Aspen
1996 at Stowe
1997 at Aspen
1998 at Squaw Valley
1999 at Mont Tremblant
2000 at Banff
2001 at Sun Valley
2002 at Vail
2003 at Deer Valley/
Park City
2004 at Mammoth
2005 at Stowe
2006 at Vail
2007 at Vail

Vice President Doug Pfeiffer and President Mason Beekley address attendees at the Eighth Annual Gathering at Mont Tremblant

An all star I.S.H.A. cast, with Lac Quimet and Gray Rocks in the background: Peggy Johannsen Austin, daughter of Canadian pioneer trailblazer, Jack Rabbit Johannsen; Joanne Hewson, top 1950s international racer; Peter Picard, pioneer 1930’s instructor in the Sierra, and Lucille Wheeler, Canada’s 1958 gold medalist daughter of the founder of Grey Rocks.

Those I.S.H.A. Trips…

In the past ten years, I have organized and led 18 ski trips in the U.S., Austria, Switzerland, Canada, France and Italy for the Amateur Ski Club of New York. I have also been on a number of NASJA (journalists) trips. In the same years, my husband Joe and I have been five times to I.S.H.A. Gatherings. The I.S.H.A. trips have truly been some of our favorites.

Back when I was a beginner, I lived in Rochester, New York nursing bruises acquired while trying to learn the art of skiing Eastern ice. Back then the annual John Jay film always assurred us we were part of a new movement. I recall with such fondness the wit and wisdom Jay’s wonderful films reflected. And where else but on an I.S.H.A. trip could you watch John Jay movies with John Jay himself showing them? This year at Banff, John was wearing what must be his favorite sweater. It is the same one he wore in the 1960s Taos film he was projecting for us.

Where else but on an I.S.H.A. trip would we have the chance to chat with Alan Engen about his recently published book on his father Alf? Where else would we sit at the table with Bill Briggs during a banquet and hear Bill’s extraordinary story of the first ski descent of the Grand Teton? Or better yet, spend the day trying to keep up with him on Sunshine Meadows?

It was nice to start each day by having breakfast with the likes of Jerry and Jimmie Nunn, Wolfie Lert, and Peter Picard. All of them have made ski history. And yet they are here for the same reason as we are. They just love skiing. Their conversation skips the “bells and whistles” that come with vanity.

We are nostalgic for those good old days when skiers went to the mountain to ski and enjoy the camaraderie. That is what we find at the I.S.H.A. Gatherings. The price is right, the sites a delight. And every time, it is the members themselves who make it all so wonderfully worthwhile. -- Mary Kerr