When the Long Island East Ski Club was established in 1971, its founders couldn’t have foreseen what it would become. Forty years later, its members have traveled all over the world, their passport stamps denoting stops at some of the lushest ski resorts in Europe.

It isn’t just any ski club and that’s the point.

It began over a conversation at the Sand Bar Tavern in Sag Harbor. Its first excursion consisted of 15 people carpooling to Big Vanilla, a now-defunct ski area in the Catskills, for a weekend. Like the club’s headcount, the trips began to grow in scale.

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Ski trips update:

Sestriere, Italy (elevation 2035m) is one of the many villages belonging to the Vialattea ski resort in the Piedmont Region of the Northern Italian Alps.  Built in 1934 by Fiat (upgraded for 2006 Olympics), it has become a world famous destination. Known for its hospitality, this charming village offers shopping, nite life, wine tasting, truffles.  With its system of 88 interconnected lifts and 7 villages, it boasts an array of panoramic trails and heart throbbing Olympic runs. You may lunch in the historic village of Sauze D’Oulx or change countries and go to Montgenevre, France for a different culinary treat - all on one lift ticket.www.ski2italy.com/
Ski Sestriere, Italy video

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Known as Ski Town USA, has a western authenticity that can be seen throughout the town in the working cattle ranches, the locals’ casual lifestyle and down home friendliness.  This area also has produced more Olympians than any other. (says something about the mountain!)  Want a new ski buddy: Billy the Kid gives Free daily mountains tours.  Something  for everyone: large base village with many restaurants and a near by town accessed by a free shuttle bus.
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