From Mike Doyle,
Your Guide to Skiing.
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Ski Club Member Benefits

Ski Clubs offer the recreational skier discounts on lift tickets, ski trip transportation and lodging, ski gear, apparel and insurance, and often other cost reductions that are of interest to individual clubs.

How Ski Clubs Get Discounts

Ski Clubs and Federations of Ski Clubs approach the cost of things skiing with the power of numbers. They represent the guarantee of a specific percentage of members that will spend money, and more members that will also spend when they see a discount is available. In short, resorts and travel agencies, shops et al. will make more sales by offering deals to groups like Ski Clubs.

Other Ski Club Benefits

Ski Club Houses
Many Ski Clubs around the country have purchased, or built, large houses near ski resorts that the club operates as a lodge for its members. Some large clubs offer rotating time sharing among members. Others just offer open booking to members on a first-come, first-served basis. In any case, the cost is a fraction of what a skier would pay a commercial hotel or lodging establishment for a similar stay.

Cooking facilities are almost always available. Some family style, some restaurant style, or a la carte. Shuttle service to the slopes is usually available to save members the hassle of parking and carting a family of skiers and skis.

Depending on the makeup of the ski club, i.e. single or family there may be entertainment of sorts, again at little or no cost.

Skiing With Friends and Family
If you like to ski and look to join a Ski Club, you can be assured you will be among friends the very first day you join. Some clubs are geared toward families and kids can all ski together while parents do the same or maybe just rest.

Other clubs are for singles and emphasize a social mixing of genders. In fact, many skiing families developed from skiing singles meeting through Ski Clubs.

Something For The Off-Season
Many Ski Clubs have year round events like socials, summer hiking, and camping trips. They are also a good source for cheap group rates to southern hemispheres ski resorts in South America, Australia and New Zealand.

Search Out A Ski Club

You don't have to join most ski clubs before you ski with them. Most offer guest rates for a chance to get to know the members and see if you and/or your family feel comfortable. Also check out the available bargains to see if they fit your destination plans.

Many ski clubs have no demographic requirements as to where you have to live in order to join. So, say you ski a lot in Vermont, live in Rhode island, but have friends or relatives that also ski in Vermont but live in New York. They may belong to a ski club that owns a lodge in Vermont. So, you could possibly join their club and meet and stay at the lodge.

In short, join a club and be among like-minded skiers and among people who like to save money.