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Chicagoland Club 50 –

Ski & Sports

If you’re over 50 and a lover of the great outdoors and
sports in all four seasons, Chicagoland Club 50 - Ski &
Sports is the club for you!

Club 50 focuses its winter energy on three week-long ski
trips: Vail, Snowmass and a third week that has taken the
group in recent years to Big Sky, Lake Tahoe, Sun Valley,
and this winter to Breckenridge and Summit County,
Colo. Every ski day ends with a wine and cheese gather-
ing where friendships are made, strengthened, and dinner
partners booked for the evening. ties. Recent kayaking outings have included exploring the
Chicago River and the Skokie Lagoons.
Once a month the club gathers for Sunday evening dinner
and conversation at different restaurants in Chicago and The group takes in several Cubbie and White Sox games
the suburbs. each summer. Concerts at Millennium Park and Ravinia,
as well as a day at Arlington Park Race Track and hiking
Summertime brings an intensity to the group’s outdoor trips to Colorado and Wyoming, make welcome diver-
life matched only by the friendliness of its members. sions for this fun-loving group.
Golfers gather every Thursday for nine holes and lunch.
Saturday and Sunday mornings are reserved for cycling For more information:
and kayaking. The group starts its biking season with Ellyn Lanz, 847-317-0042
Bike the Drive on Memorial Day and continues with rides www.ski50.com

on forest preserve trails in Cook, Lake and DuPage coun-

Greater Grand
Rapids Ski Club

The Greater Grand Rapids Ski Club is a
year-round, four-season club and is one
of the most socially active clubs in Grand
Rapids. All skiers from beginners to inter-
mediate to expert skiers will find some-
thing to their liking on GGRSC ski trips
and events.

The club offers both downhill and cross-
country ski trips, learn-to-ski-better clin-
ics, and day and weekend bus trips to favorite Michigan ski GGRSC, or in a ski club belonging to the Metropolitan
resorts as well as exciting week-long trips out West and to Detroit Ski Council or the Metropolitan Chicago Ski
Europe. Many non-skiers join the GGRSC because of the Council, is required in order to participate in club-
many activities the club offers during the spring, summer sponsored trips. Our annual membership is $40 for an
and fall, such as golfing, sailing, whitewater rafting, canoe- individual, $50 for a household, or you may join just for
ing/kayaking, camping, biking and rollerblading. the summer months (May through October) for only $25.

Join us for our monthly TGIF parties held on the first
Friday of each month at fun spots around Grand Rapids, For more information:
and for our Rush parties held to welcome new members
Carl Hagstrom, Membership
before and after the ski season. Membership in the hagstrom@iserv.net, www.ggrsc.org

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