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Mid-Atlantic Ski Clubs
The Mid-Atlantic Region is blessed with a wealth of active ski clubs. These clubs provide a chance to make new friends and participate in a wide variety of activities, from skiing and snowboarding to mountain biking, hiking, dancing, and more. Most ski clubs offer numerous trips during the winter to popular local and distant resorts. Members of these ski clubs take advantage of discounted rates, while leaving the planning (and worrying) to experienced trip captains.
Many of the local ski clubs listed here are also members of the Blue Ridge Ski Council (BRSC), whose goal is to enhance and enrich the sport of skiing.
Information about local clubs is given below. You can find a description of each club, as well as view or add comments about a specific club. If your ski club isn’t listed (or needs to be updated), please send us a note and we’ll get it added right away.
The Acme Ski Club is a small group of dedicated skiers, snowboarders, and telemarkers in the Western Pennsylvania region.
Allegheny Ski & Sports Club Inc., centered in Altoona, PA, provides diverse outdoor recreational and social opportunities year-round. This includes downhill and cross country skiing, hiking, camping, kayaking, rappelling, rock climbing, mountain biking, picnics, inline skating and more.
The Appalachian Telemark Association is a loose confederation of free-heel skiers, whose purpose is to enjoy the spirit that resides within the telemark community.
Winter Activities
The Appalachian Telemark Association (ATA) promotes the sport of freeheeling through social events, workshops, races and other activities. Most ATA members live in the tri-state region near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ATA events are usually held at Seven Springs Resort.
The Baltimore Ski Club began in 1939 when only the hardiest enthusiasts tackled the slopes. Much has changed since then, but not the goals of the club. The club consists of members who have banded together out of a common interest to share downhill skiing, cross country skiing and boarding experiences, to improve abilities and knowledge, to save money on trips, and to socialize during both the winter and summer months with a broad range of people.
Winter Activities
The Baltimore Ski Club sponsors numerous ski trips each winter. For the 2004-2005 winter season, trips are planned for Seven Springs, Lake Tahoe, Andora and Barcelona, Jay Peak, Breckenridge, Bristol, Park City, Durango, Canaan Valley, Davos and Prague, Alyeska, and Beaver Creek.
Summer Activities
The Baltimore Ski Club usually hosts several social and recreational activities during the summer.
The Beaver Valley Ski Club was founded in 1963 as a non-profit organization to foster recreational and competitive snow skiing for skiers in the Beaver Valley and the bordering areas. The club is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Ski Council.
Based out of Washington, D.C., the Black Ski Club is active year-round, sponsoring ski trips during the winter and bike trips during the summer.
For more information on this club, write to:
P.O. Box 90762
Washington, DC 20090-0762
Members of the Blue Knob Ski Club receive benefits such as use of the Blue Knob Ski Clubhouse, discounts on ski packages and lift tickets, and more.
The Blue Ridge Ski Council isn’t a ski club, per se, but rather an organization of member ski clubs from the Mid-Atlantic region. The Blue Ridge Ski Council meets twice a year to discuss topics of concern to local ski clubs and their members. Many of the ski trips sponsored by local ski clubs each winter are coordinated through the Blue Ridge Ski Council.
Founded in 1981, the Capital Ski Club offers activities throughout the year.
Champion, Pennsylvania
Based out of Champion, PA. For more information, contact John Matisko at johnandlorrie@wpia.net or Lorrie Newhaven at newha1lf@westinghouse.com.
The Columbia Ski Club is a very active club year-round. Their schedule always includes diverse activities such as ice skating, roller blading, and restaurant visiting. Of course, some skiing is thrown in too. This is one of the most active clubs in the region.
Winter Activities
Each winter, the Columbia Ski Club hosts a number of ski trips to local and distant resorts. Local trips often include destinations such as Seven Springs and Wisp. Trips to resorts in Colorado, Utah, Canada, and Europe are also often scheduled.
Summer Activities
In the spring, summer, and fall, Columbia Ski Club members can be found biking, bowling, hiking, and playing softball and volleyball in organized events. This busy club often has numerous events scheduled each week.
Originally founded in 1971 as the “Annapolis Ski Club” (and later known as the “Crabtowne Ski Club”), Crabtowne Skiers is a ski, sports, and activities club. Crabtowne sponsors activities
Winter Activities
Crabtowne Skiers sponsors several ski trips each winter. Past trips have included Aspen/Snowmass, Canaan Valley, Bear Creek, and Whistler/Blackcomb.
Summer Activities
Crabtowne Skiers stays quite active during the summer. Members participate in activities such as sailing, water boating, biking, hiking, dancing, hang gliding, tennis, and much more.
The DC Ski Club (no relation to DCSki, the on-line publication you’re currently reading), was founded in 1999 and plans several trips each winter season. This club draws members from alternative lifestyles.
Winter Activities
This club plans annual winter trips to Aspen and Whistler, and frequently plans trips to Snowshoe, Seven Springs, and Killington. During the winter months, the club also holds monthly happy hours throughout the Dupont area.
The four-season Der Sitzmark Ski Club consists of a group of snow skiers who reside in the greater Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. They pool their resources to ski at group rates.
A four-season club with members of all ages and backgrounds.
Founded in Washington, D.C. in 1966, the Fagowees engage in activities year-round. During the winter, skiing is the most common activity. There are now several branches of the Fagowees across the country, but there remains a strong chapter in the Washington, D.C. region.
The Frederick Ski Club was founded in 1981 and offers year-round activities, including biking and beach weekend trips.
Winter Activities
For the 2004-2005 winter season, the Frederick Ski Club is planning tentative trips to Seven Springs, Steamboat Springs, Italy, and either Lake Tahoe or Breckenridge.
Summer Activities
Club members participate in year-round activities such as hiking, biking, golfing, tennis, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, watersports, camping, dancing, and more.
The Fredericksburg Ski Club a non-profit organization established to help those residents of the Fredericksburg, Virginia area who are afflicted with an unnatural attraction to snow-covered mountains. Membership is open to adults and families.
The Frostburg State Ski Club was founded by students at western Maryland’s Frostburg State University in 2005.
A ski club based in Johnstown, PA, offering a range of trips and activities.
The Harford Ski Club is primarily a winter season club, with monthly meetings from October through March.
Winter Activities
The Harford Ski Club is planning several trips for the 2004-2005 winter season, including two “kid-friendly” trips over three-day holiday weekends, to Killington and Jay Peak. Other planned trips include the Lake Tahoe region, Seven Springs, and Whistler/Blackcomb.
Founded by a group of Union Carbide engineers in the late 1950s, the Kanawha Ski Club began as a means of connecting Charleston area ski buffs to the nearest slopes, which for the most part were outside the state. Today, West Virginia has some of the best ski resorts in the region, so members don’t have to go as far to get to the slopes.
Winter Activities
The Kanawha Ski Club sponsors local trips to Snowshoe, Timberline, Winterplace, and Canaan Valley, as well as trips throughout the country to areas such as Vail, Aspen, and Steamboat Springs.
Summer Activities
The club holds spring and fall mountain biking tours, an annual summer membership picnic, and other seasonal activities such as rafting, volleyball, golf, in-line skating and a beach trip.
The Lancaster Ski Club is a non-profit social club, originally formed in 1946. Membership is approximately 600 people. The purpose of the club is to promote the sport of skiing and related activities. These include downhill skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, and apres ski activities such as hitting the hot tub and wine and cheese parties. The club also sponsors year-round activities.
McLean, Virginia
The Langley Ski Club is a club started and organized by three juniors at Langley High School. The club was started in fall of 2004 and there are 91 members. The club was devloped to help provide a club that can help students to find places to ski in the DC area, develope their skills, share experiences from their skiing history, talk about equiptment, and above all have fun.
Based out of Hagerstown, the purpose of the Little Heiskell Ski Club (LHSC) is the encouragement, advancement, and improvement of the sport of skiing and snowboarding for pleasure, recreation, and other non-profitable purposes. The club was founded in 1967.
A ski and snowboard club started by students at the McLean High School.
Meadville, Pennsylvania
A ski club located in Meadville, PA. For more information about this club, contact Walt Prest at prest@alltel.net.
The Messiah Ski and Ride Club is dedicated to providing Messiah College Students in Pennsylvania with affordable opportunities to enjoy the sports of skiing and snowboarding. The Club helps coordinate trips locally and out west. For example, during the 2005-2006 winter season, the Club operated a free ski van to shuttle members to the slopes of Ski Roundtop.
Based in Virginia Beach, the Mogul Ski Club promotes activities such as whitewater rafting, canoeing, kayacking, camping, biking, rollerblading, and of course skiing. General meetings are held monthly.
An active ski club based out of Irwin, PA.
Dating back to 1971, Goddard Ski Club members include government civil servants, support contractors, and community members near the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters, and the Wallops Flight Facility. The Club sponsors several trips each winter.
The PA Snowboard Club seeks to unite Pennsylvania snowboarders and create an interactive community.
The Peninsula Ski Club (also known as PSC) was organized in the winter of 1966-67 by Jim Colbert, who also became the club’s first president. The club has been going strong ever since. The PSC meets at the Warwick Yacht Club, Maxwell Lane, Newport News.
Winter Activities
The club sponsors numerous ski trips each season, to both local resorts (such as Virginia’s Wintergreen Resort) and Western, New England, and European locations.
Summer Activities
The club participates in many non-skiing activities throughout the year, including bike rides, kayak/canoe/raft trips, indoor/outdoor tennis, baseball, picnics, theater outings, and more.
Despite its name, the Pentagon Ski Club isn’t just open to Army generals. Although founded by military members at the Pentagon in 1966, the Pentagon Ski Club is now open to the entire public (and isn’t funded by your tax money!) 85% of club members are drawn from Virginia, Maryland, and D.C., but active members also hail from states as far away as Florida, Arizona, and California.
The Pittsburgh Ski Club was founded as a non-profit organization to encourage skiing through instruction, ski trips and racing programs. Today, the PSC offers year-round activities for its members and schedules a variety of travel, social and sports outings, which are organized by volunteers within the membership. The club has members of all ages.
Potomac Valley Skiers is composed of skiing enthusiasts and sponsors 4-5 ski trips each year to the Rockies and also to Europe and South America. Local activities include social events, hikes, and bicycling. Membership is limited to 200 with a few new applicants admitted each year.
The Richmond Ski Club was founded in 1954. Over 700 members participate in this club, with members ranging in age from 8 to 80. The club offers year-round activities, such as hiking, biking, camping, theatre excursions, happy hours, and more.
The Salisbury Ski Club of Delmarva is based on the Delmarva Peninsula in Salisbury, Maryland. The club, founded in 1964, endeavors to promote snow skiing and ski opportunities to all residents of the Delmarva Peninsula regardless of age or skiing ablity.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
A ski club based out of Greensburg, PA. For more information on this club, contact Gary Allwine at gary@web-tech.net or Bob Burford at frub4@charterpa.net.
The Shenango Valley Ski Club was founded in 1969 to promote the sport of downhill skiing. Today, the Club’s well-rounded calendar provides its members with activities throughout the year. Skiing and non-skiing singles and couples are welcome to join.
The Ski Club of Washington, D.C. (SCWDC) is more than a ski club, it’s a club for all seasons with nearly 400 events throughout the year. The club offers more than 40 ski trips a year in the U.S. and internationally and 350+ recreational, social and sporting events and activities. The club also has a subgroup called the TNT (Twenty-N-Thirties) Group, which focuses on activities such as happy hours, rock climbing, and white water rafting.
Winter Activities
Dating back to 1936, the Ski Club of Washington, D.C. plans trips each winter to East coast resorts as well as Western and European resorts. This club also offers trips geared specifically towards cross country skiers. Ski Enhancement outings are also offered, where professionally accredited ski instructors help polish participants’ skills at no extra cost.
Summer Activities
This active club has year-round events in a wide variety of recreational, social, and cultural categories, including hiking, biking, sailing, tennis, dance, dining, theater, tours, and much more.
The Ski Dome Ski Club, founded in 1998, is primarily intended to provide cheap night skiing for its members. Membership in the club is free. The club also offers free waxing and tuning workshops each Fall. The club has worked with Liberty Mountain Resort, Ski Roundtop, and Whitetail to offer a discounted evening season pass.
Started by employees at the Naval Research Laboratory, the Snow Searchers Ski Club specializes in local one-day trips.
The Southern Maryland Ski Club (SMSC) was formed in 1982 by a group of 20 Charles County skiiers who shared an interest in recreational snow skiing. The club has now grown to over 100 members consisting of folks from all walks of life and varying ages. The club is for all levels of skiiers from beginners to experts and is for families, couples, and singles. Members enjoy spending time together and helping one another improve their skiing ability.
Winter Activities
The club plans many ski trips during the ski season for the day, the weekend, and week long. Most trips remain local in the East, with annual trips to some of the most popular ski resorts in Vermont, as well as the Rockies and Canada.
Summer Activities
Members enjoy non-ski activities year round, such as water skiing, white water rafting, bike trips, crab feasts, pool parties, and more.
Founded in 2003, the Pittsburgh-based Steel City Skiers hopes to plan several trips each winter. This club draws members from alternative lifestyles.
Steel on Ice brings together African Americans who share camaraderie, network, and build friendships through exciting adventures. Steel on Ice is based in Pittsburgh, PA.
The Terrapin Ski and Snowboard Club is run by students at the University of Maryland College Park.
Winter Activities
The University of Maryland’s ski club sponsors several ski trips throughout the winter. In the past, students have been able to purchase inexpensive night season passes at local resorts through the club.
The TJ Ski and Snowboard Club is a ski and snowboard club started by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The club helps to educate the student body on the merits of skiing and snowboarding, provides clinics, discounts, and lessons and helps to facilitate ski/snowboard trips for club members. During the winter the club organizes snowball “hurls,” sledding, and other snowy activities during club periods using snow made by the club’s own expert snowmaking team.
Founded at the close of the twentieth century, The Vertical Fuego Ski Club is based on the principle that the winter months in Central Pennsylvania are a unique and fleeting time that should be devoted to the pure enjoyment of outdoor recreation.
The Virginia Ski Club is a ski and social club for adults over 21, sponsoring events such as happy hours in addition to ski trips.
The Western Pennsylvania Ski Council consists of seventeen clubs representing Western and Central Pennsylvania, Southwestern New York, Eastern Ohio, D.C. and Northern West Virginia.
Westmoreland is an active and friendly club for skiers of all abilities and ages.
