Please note, our membership year runs from May 1 to April 30. Our membership annual renewal period runs from May 1 to August 31. Membership renewal notices are sent out in mid May with reminder notices sent out in July.

Some areas on the web site (Cultural, Social, Gen X/Y) do not have published events at this time.    The ski areas (Western, Eastern) are also empty, they will be updated in mid-July.

Ski trips are our most important product:

• Fourteen to sixteen Western and International trips per ski season – for trip details, click on Western/International ski trips in the menu on your right (this link will be active in mid-July 2012 for the 2013 ski season)
• Nine trips in the Eastern USA, from one-day trips to week-long vacations (some with instruction included) – for trip details, click on Eastern ski trips in the menu on your right, down the page (this link will be active in August 2012)

Why can we offer such a selection?

• We are the largest ski club in the area, with almost 2000 members
  

• As of January 2011, we have been around for 75 years. During 2011, we held many anniversary events, something in most of our program areas, to celebrate our continued vibrancy and joy for life

• Our club is the only one featuring a ski school with certified instructors - see our Eastern trips that include ski or board instruction at no extra charge, of any ability including beginner

• Two of our trips are sponsored by the Blue Ridge Ski Council, the mid-Atlantic association of 22 ski clubs, that spans Richmond to northern Maryland. They can involve up to several hundred skiers on the same trip.  Also, your SCWDC membership qualifies you to go on any other BRSC club's trip and be able to pay the member price, no guest fee

What else do we offer?

• Tennis, sailing, golf, volleyball, softball, hiking, rafting, biking, parties, wine-tastings, crab feasts, beach trips, restaurant outings, theater, concerts, book club; we get together once a month for a membership meeting (usually the first Tuesday of the month), then a happy hour on the third Thursday. We sponsor a 20-40's special group, Gen X/Y, for the younger members.

• You can come up with your own original ideas.  A Caribbean cruise, heli-skiing, Bike and Barge in the Netherlands and Belgium, a late spring 2011 trip to Iceland, were all recently suggested by members

How can you stay in touch?

• Our website (SCWDC.org) lists all our scheduled activities
• The Ski-o-Gram, a weekly e-mail, lists activities planned for the next few weeks
• Monthly membership meetings year-round, most of them at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Crystal City
• One of them is a July pool party in McLean, with food and drink provided to our members and guests of members
  
• We hold a 'Ski Fest', a roll-out of next season's ski trips, in early September; and a 'Fashion Show' of ski clothing in November
• We publish a magazine every two months which identifies events...for you and to show your friends and get them involved

What is your next step?

• Click on Join/Connect with SCWDC on your left, join the club, and take advantage of everything we have to offer!