Austin Skiers: A club for snow sports and travel enthusiasts

Guarantee your spot on an Austin Skiers’ trip. Sign up early!

You can mail your trip application and deposit as early as Monday, July 14. Read the rules below. It’s easy. Just follow the rules:

· You must have your current (2008-09) club membership post marked by July 8 to have your Trip Application eligible for the July 14 mail-in start date. Don’t wait. Renew your membership today.

· If you renew your membership after July 8, then your trip application date will incur a one-day delay penalty. For example, if you renew your membership on July 9 and send in your trip application on July 14, then the trip application will be counted as if it was mailed on July 15.

· Membership applications are available on the Web site. You can also contact Membership VP, Patrick Laffey, at membership@austinskiers.org for an application.

· Fill out a trip application, one per person, for each trip.

· Individual members can sign up themselves plus one other current member.

· Family members can sign up their immediate family as defined in the By-Laws (Art III, Sec 1).

· Please remember that “children” must be under 21 or full-time students.

· All applications must be signed and complete. Sign up for as many trips as you want.

· Enclose your trip application with your deposit in an envelope. The minimum deposit for each trip is $200 per participant. Checks should be made payable to “Austin Skiers”. Include the trip's name on the check.

· Mail your trip application(s) to:

NEW ADDRESS!!!

Austin Skiers
P.O. Box 9422
Austin, TX 78766

· Do not mail your applications before July 14.

· Hand delivered trip applications are prohibited until July 19. Trip Chairs and the VP of Trips will accept hand delivered trip applications starting on July 19.

· Metered postmarks will not be accepted to eliminate the risk of dates being manipulated.

· Austin Skiers is not responsible for any problems with the U.S. Postal Service, including delayed delivery or lost mail.

· Austin Skiers will process your application(s) as follows:

· · All valid, timely applications will be added to each trip’s Participant List in the order of the
postmark date.

· · Members submitting applications that fail to meet eligibility requirements (postal or other)
will be notified so that they can re-apply.

· · If a trip’s roster fills during early mail-in sign-up, subsequent applicants will go on a waitlist in the order of the postmark date. If there are applications which tie for eligibility and cannot all be accommodated, then an unbiased lottery will be used by the President and VP of Trips to determine which applications are put on the Participant List and which ones are added to the wait list.

· · The Trip Chair will hold (not deposit) waitlist members’ checks until a space becomes available on the trip. Then the Trip Chair will contact you to confirm your desire to join the trip before depositing your check.

· · You will be notified of your status on the trip within a week of the Trip Chair receiving the application, after July 14.

· Remember: All Trip Participants are subject to Austin Skiers Trip Policies