Cheeseman open for all

Press, 1 June 1989, Page 33

Cheeseman open for all

The Mount Cheeseman Ski Club (formerly the Canterbury Winter Sports Club) is the largest ski club in the South Island with 1200 members. Its field is the nearest club field to Christchurch, only 100 km distant on the main Christchurch-West Coast highway. The club is anxious to dispel the misconception that its field is available only to members. Ski-ing by the day or by the week is available to the general public. The tow fee for adults is $3O for Saturday or Sunday, and $lB for a week-day — unchanged from last season.

Places are still available on most ski weeks for $330 — and this figure covers all meals from dinner on Sunday evening until lunch on Saturday, Lodge accommodation on the mountain for six nights, ski tow fees for seven days and tuition from internerationally qualified ski instructors for five days. There is no road toll but chains are sometimes required. Mount Cheeseman is the only Canterbury ski club with a T-bar lift. The club also has a noddy-tow on its learners’ slope, and a poma for access to the ridge from the top of the

The ski school director for the 1989 season is Gerhand Inniger, of Switzerland.

Mount Cheeseman organised this year’s Kiwi Lager CSA Ski Sale at Addington Raceway. The club plans to spend its approximate $lB,OOO share of the net profit on further development of its new engine shed and equipment shelter complex. When completed, this structure will release the existing engine shed for conversion to extended day visitor facilities and enhanced ski patrol base.