Category: Downhill Day Trips

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Clinic Spotlight: Ski the Steeps – STEPs 7-9

These classes offer tips to make skiing the steeps easy and fun. Join us, whether you enjoy the challenge here in Ontario or want to master the steeps for your weekend or charter trips. Some skills you will work on include (but not limited to) short radius turns, speed control and edging.

The emphasis is on building control and confidence in a safe and relaxing environment.

Clinic dates:

Sunday, February 2

Monday, February 10

Wednesday, February 12

Sunday, March 2

Check out the Downhill Ski School page (https://www.hpsc.ca/Downhill-Ski-School) for further information.

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Treat yourself to a new experience this winterwith a Special Clinic!

Our clinics give you a way to develop your skiing and riding in unique contexts with our instructors at your side.

Some reasons you might want to try a clinic:

  • Explore different terrain, like bumps, steeps, or the terrain park
  • Discover new sensations through carving clinics
  • Develop confidence through clinics like skiing in the zone or mindfulness
  • Learn to teach through our Instructor Training program

Clinics have some STEP requirements. Check out SnoBiz over the next few weeks to learn more about each of our clinics – alternately, visit our downhill ski school page or snowboard school page to learn more about the clinics.

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Ikon Group Sale Extended!

We have seven trips going on sale on September 26, and five of the destinations are on the Ikon Pass!

And, the Ikon Pass is still available through our Group Sale (sale has been extended). The sale gets you a modest discount off the pass, plus $50 off any Skican Group trip, including many of our HPSC trips.

Plus, you get a chance to win a refund equivalent to an Ikon Base Pass. We already have enough sales to refund SIX passes!

A final date has not yet been announced, but we are told the Group Sale will continue into October.

If you have questions, send them to Ikon coordinator, Russ Harding, at ikon@hpsc.ca

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Ikon Group Sale Pass continues…but not for long!!

Our Group Sale for Ikon Passes will be coming to an end on September 6 at 5pm. Lots of info here.

We have had a great response, and are poised to award a refund equivalent to an Ikon Base Pass to SIX lucky members!

The Ikon Pass can be used for unlimited skiing at Blue Mountain and Tremblant, with no blackouts.

If you have already purchased a 5×7 Pass for Blue, but are thinking maybe you would have been better off getting the Ikon Pass, note that you can get a full refund for the 5×7 by telling Blue the order number for your Ikon Pass. It’s easy!

The pass can be used on our trips as follows:

Blue Mountain Ikon Base Pass (unlimited)
save $69-$159 per day

Tremblant Ikon Base Pass (unlimited)
save $170-$365*

Killington Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $270**

Panorama Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $405

Japan Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $455

Val Gardena Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $680

Sun Valley Ikon Base PLUS (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $925***

Sun Peaks 1 Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $500

Sun Peaks 2 Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $455

Banff 1 Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $485

Banff 2 Ikon Base Pass (5 days), Ikon Pass (7 days)
save $515

*Tremblant prices are not yet published. Savings shown are from last season.

**Killington prices are not yet published. Savings shown are from last season.

***The Ikon Base Pass is not accepted at Sun Valley. You can purchase the Ikon Base Pass through our Group Sale, and then upgrade to the Ikon Base Plus through your Ikon Pass online account. Or, you can buy the full Ikon Pass through our Group Sale.

Contact me with any questions

Russ Harding

ikon@hpsc.ca

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Day Trips


The 2023/2024 downhill day trips season came to an end on Saturday, March 23 at MSLM. It was a great way to wrap up the season with a surprise cold week with some snow in Toronto and the ski resorts.

A huge thank you to the volunteer downhill day trips team! On a weekly basis, these are your volunteers who worked hard behind the scenes. We had 53 day trips planned for this season, and this team did all the work to coordinate them, even for the trips that didn’t run.

Saturday Trip Coordinator: Bishu Basuroy
Sunday Trip Coordinator: Michael Hardtke
Monday Trip Coordinator: Sheila Moshonas
Wednesday Trip Coordinator: Fran Burgess
Day Trips email inquiries: Jason Tsang
Bus Captain forms: Heidi Gay

Thank you to all club members who volunteered to be bus captains on all our day trips!

Thank you to Downhill Snow School and all instructors for organizing, teaching lessons and clinics, as well as the MSLM race series!

We had an unseasonably warm winter, but we still got quite a few weeks of trips with full registrations. I’m already looking forward to next season and hoping for a lot more snow and winter!
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Mogul Masters Clinics!

The One Day Mogul Masters clinics are back. The dates are Saturday, February 24 and March 2 at MSLM and Monday, February 26 and Sunday, March 10 at Blue Mountain. 
For more information visit the Downhill Ski School page.
For registration go to the registration page on the HPSC website.
*Important* Click the Mogul Masters option not your step level.
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Sign Up for Downhill Day Trips!

All February day trip registrations are now open for the bus. Drive-up options will continue to be opened on a weekly basis on Saturdays by 7:30pm. 

Be on the look-out for the confirmation of: 

  • A downhill day trip on Family Day Monday, February 19th
  • An extended après-ski social at Mount St. Louis Moonstone on Saturday, February 24th

There’s still lots of winter left, let’s get out to the hills! 

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Downhill day trips need bus captains! 

We cannot run bus trips without bus captains. There’s a fun way to meet new members, help run day trips and cover the cost of your next bus trip, $35 in savings!

Day trips bus captains help lead our Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday trips. Bus captains are responsible for preparing and delivering bus announcements on the day trip, taking attendance, answering member questions, handing out lift tickets and completing end of day paperwork to be submitted to the Director of Downhill Day Trips. 

Bus captains receive 1 bus voucher for every trip they captain (value of $35).

Please attend an upcoming Zoom call to find out more information and to get some basic training on Thursday, February 1st, 8:00-9:00 pm.

Please email daytrips@hpsc.ca to register.

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IMPORTANT Update for Downhill Day Trips Drive-ups

Starting this season, Drive-up registrations will be opening on a weekly basis. Every Saturday by 8 pm, drive-up registration for all day trips will open for the following week.

A great benefit of being a member of HPSC is that you don’t have to be on the bus in order to take advantage of our free lessons. To ensure the best possible experience, we require drive-ups to register for their lesson. To manage class sizes and the number of instructors, we need to restrict the number of drive-up spots. The snow school and our day trips teams monitor the numbers closely leading up to the registration deadline and open up additional drive-up spots based on the numbers on the bus. These additional spots are first offered to those on the drive-up waitlist. 

When a member “no shows” it means that others who may have wanted a lesson are not able to participate and we may have more instructors than necessary, which costs the club since we have paid for transportation and partially subsidised instructor lift tickets.

Over the last couple of seasons, the limited number of drive-up spots were booked up very quickly weeks in advance. However, since there is no financial commitment (unlike booking the bus) or penalty, there is a higher number of drive-up no-shows.  

Starting this season, to hopefully reduce the no-show rate, we are opening drive-up registration only in the week prior to the trip, so you have a better idea of your schedule and the weather. This means that drive-up registration for all day trips will now open on the previous Saturday evening and remain open until the regular deadline, Tuesday by 6 pm. Further, to reduce the work for our refund team that handles cancellations, since there is no refund involved, we are allowing drive-up registrants to self-cancel up until the standard registration deadline.

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IMPORTANT update for Downhill Day Trips Drive-ups:

Starting this season, Drive-up registrations will be opening on a weekly basis. A great benefit of being a member of HPSC is that you don’t have to be on the bus in order to take advantage of our free lessons. To ensure the best possible experience, we require drive-ups to register for their lesson. To manage class sizes and the number of instructors, we need to restrict the number of drive-up spots. The snow school and our day trips teams monitor the numbers closely leading up to the registration deadline and open up additional drive-up spots based on the numbers on the bus. These additional spots are first offered to those on the drive-up waitlist.

When a member “no shows”, it means that others who may have wanted a lesson are not able to participate and we may have more instructors than necessary, which costs the club since we have paid  transportation and partially subsidised instructor lift tickets.

Over the last couple of seasons, the limited number of drive-up spots were booked up very quickly weeks in advance. However, since there is no financial commitment (unlike booking the bus) or penalty, there is a higher number of drive-up no-shows.

Starting this season, to hopefully reduce the no-show rate, we are opening drive-up registration only in the week prior to the trip, so you have a better idea of your schedule and the weather. This means that drive-up registration for all day trips will now open on the previous Saturday evening and remain open until the regular deadline, Tuesday by 6 pm. Further, to reduce the work for our refund team that handles cancellations, since there is no refund involved, we are allowing drive-up registrants to self-cancel up until the standard registration deadline.    

For the first week of January trips, drive-up registration will open on Saturday, December 30.