Saturday, October 22, (8am to 3pm) at The Holiday Inn - Vancouver Centre, 711 West Broadway (just 20 minutes from the airport and even closer to downtown).

Guest rooms (they all have great views and complimentary high speed internet!) are available at a reduced rate of $93.00 per night for single/double occupancy.

You need to book before Friday, September 23rd - that's when the hotel releases the rooms to the public. Please call 604-879-0511 to reserve, and mention you're with BC Alpine.

Coaches meetings - Thurs, Oct 20 & Fri, Oct 21 (more details in Coaching section)
Alcan NGSL Meeting - Sat, Oct 22 (3-6pm) (more details in NGSL section)
Senior Officials Meeting - Sat, Oct 22 (3-4pm)
TD Update - Sun, Oct 23 (full day)

Everyone's invited - we hope to see you there!

The CSSA/ACA D&O insurance for 2004/2005 expires November 1, 2005. All clubs not carrying their own D&O Insurance are urged to purchase or re-new D&O Insurance from Alpine Canada (good to November 1, 2006). 

Please advise Erin Armstrong, Manager, National Services at Alpine Canada by October 15th if you wish to renew or purchase. An invoice (for Canadian coverage) will follow from BC Alpine.

If your club wishes to broaden coverage from “claims brought in Canada only” to “claims brought on a worldwide basis” you need to contact Erin by October 22nd, 2005. 

In the event that your organization already carries D&O Insurance, we would require a copy of the certificate in lieu of payment to be sent to the Manager, National Services by October 22nd, 2005 (Erin Armstrong, Suite 200, 505-8th Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 1G2). Clubs without the CSSA/ACA D&O Insurance, or those who do not provide a certificate of insurance, will not be sanctioned for Alpine Canada activities.  Please see RENEWAL NOTICE for details.

Just a reminder that it is time to apply for All Area Passes and the updated forms have been posted online. Only registered FIS athletes and their coaches should apply. Priority will be given to athletes racing full-time on the Mars BC Cup Circuit and their full-time travelling coaches. Due to quota restrictions, some applications may not be successful. Deadline this year is Monday, October 10th.

APPLICATION PROCESS:
Applicants should print off the All Area Pass Form and fill it out entirely. The completed form should be sent in to your club along with two passport sized photos and a cheque for $480 made payable to your club. Clubs will collect the All Area Pass Forms send them to BC Alpine along with a completed All Area Pass Club Reconciliation form, the photos and a single club cheque for the entire amount.

Coaches meetings will take place on Thursday, October 20 & Friday, October 21 at the Holiday Inn, 711 West Broadway, Vancouver (8:30 AM - 5 PM).  Please have a look at the preliminary AGENDA.  You won't want to miss this line-up of guest speakers!

All the hours in the gym over the summer are being put to good use now as the BC Ski Team men and women arrived to find sunshine and perfect snow in Portillo, Chile.  Although some of their equipment followed them to South America a day late (they needed the first day to free-ski anyway), conditions have been ideal and everyone is benefiting from long, productive days of gate training.  The forecast continues to be in their favour and they look forward to two more weeks – the women, slightly less – of excellent gate-training opportunities.  Between runs they keep their eyes open for a glimpse of one of the US National Team guys ripping through a course – an inspiration to any ski racer!  

MEN (coached by Dale Stephens and Glenn Thomsen)
Dustin Fraser (MWSC)
Matt Holler (WMSC)
Ben Chaddock (WMSC)
Trevor Conroy (WMSC)
Ben Thomsen (WVSC)
Jonathan Hadley (WMSC)

WOMEN (coached by Nancy O’Neill)
Alison Leighton (WMSC)
Lindsay Kraft (Vernon Ski Club)
Danielle Robson (WMSC)

The FIS B2B development group recently wrapped up a 4 day fitness camp in Whistler.  They were joined by Dave Ellis (Alpine Canada Director of Sports Science), guest coach Ross Gardner (Vancouver Ski Team Head Coach) and Sport Psychologist Karen McNeill.  Goals over the 4 days were to continue to raise the intensity of the group in a strong team environment, to challenge the athletes in new activities and to continue work on mental skills activities.

The competitive ‘B2B’ environment certainly challenges everyone involved to push themselves to their maximum. Fitness testing, mountain biking, hiking, weight training and even boxing were on the agenda.  The team is now entering a 6 week dryland block before getting back on snow in early November at Panorama. 

B2B Athletes in attendance:  Conrad Pridy (WMSC), Ian Cumming (Apex), Evan Moore (Vernon), JD McLean (WMSC), Stan Rey (WMSC), Trevor Rose (WVSC), Daniel Penn (WMSC), Elli Terwiel (Sun Peaks), Kelsey Serwa (Big White), Sandra MacDonald (Apex), Victoria Glowczynski (Sun Peaks), Jennifer Mah (WMSC)

Invitees in attendance:  Toria Whitney (WMSC), Sasha Zaitsoff (Red Mountain), Morgan Pridy (WMSC), Sarah Marshal (WMSC)

The email address offchair@bcalpine.com has been resurrected after some time, and is now going to Bruce Holiday.  All correspondence for officials information should be sent via this email address.