Trip signups for the 2025/2026 season... Here is what you need to do:

1. Your membership must be current and up-to-date in accordance with the rules stated on the membership application. Failure to supply correct, complete and accurate information will make you ineligible for a trip lottery should the trip oversell. Membership invoices were emailed out in late March.
2. Print out the trip terms and application found on each trip's web page. Complete and sign trip application in full. Please note, by signing the trip application you are acknowledging and agree to abide by all of the trip terms.
3. Make deposit check payable to “SSC” and mail completed trip application and deposit check to the trip leader.
4. Your deposit is your vote to support your chosen trip(s) and trip leader(s).
5. We hope to once again have zoom meetings for all of our trips for potential trip participants to ask questions of the trip.

TRAVEL INSURANCE IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

The following trip insurance summary was recently presented to the National Ski Federation by Myra Altschuler (myra@travelprotectors.com; 703-443-9055).

Medical Care - If you get sick, injured or die on vacation, this allows you to visit any clinic doctor or hospital in US or overseas. You will need to pay all of your bills up front and get receipts, then contact your insurance company to get reimbursed. If a hospital bill is very high (well over $5,000), call your insurance company and they may be able to work something out with the hospital for insurance company to help with payment.

Medical evacuation/ rescue – If you get hurt on the ski slopes and have to be brought down, you pay up front and submit receipt. This will be covered under Medical Evacuation. If you are hospitalized and need to be moved to another facility for treatment or brought home for treatment or after treatment, notify the insurance company you are in hospital. They will make and pay for all of the arrangements to get you home, including if you need a nurse or therapist. (Sadly, this also applies if you die during the trip and your body needs to be flown back home.

Travel insurance – This includes medical care and medical evacuation, plus trip cancellation and interruption (two types):

Standard ~ only cancel or interrupt trip for specific reasons listed in policy (if family member you care for, you, relative or roommate get sick, injured or die), you may get 100% of non-refundable portion of trip back. If any of the above is due to a pre-existing condition, policy must be purchased within 14 days of first deposit. If you get sick, injured or die during the trip, you must see a doctor to prove that you had to interrupt your trip and get reimbursed. If you use telemedicine, you must be able to show proof of telemedicine visit which should be on your portal.

Cancel for Any Reason must be purchased within 14 days of initial deposit (if credit card date of transaction for check the date the check was written). If you are sick, injured or die, see standard coverage. If you cancel for any other reason (i.e., pet gets sick, do not like the weather, civil unrest), you must be purchase within 14 days of first deposit.

Annual

• Multiple trips not in a calendar year, you choose the start date
• Covers anywhere domestically or internationally over 100 miles from your home
• Does not cover longer than 45 consecutive days
• Includes medical, medical evacuation, trip cancellation and trip interruption
• Covers only trips purchased and used in that time frame
• Best to buy a few months prior to signing up for trip in case you break a leg or get a bad diagnosis
• Cannot purchase if over 80 years old
• If over 70, it’s cheaper to buy an annual policy then trip insurance alone
• Does not cover cancel for any reason, only specific reasons
• If you renew policy within 7 days of expiration of old policy, it will cover pre-existing conditions

PLEASE COMMIT EARLY TO AVOID THE CANCELLATION OF THESE TRIPS The contracts we have this year are very stringent in their deadlines which require us to have a certain number of participants by unusually early dates. If we must cancel a trip by the due date because of lack of participation, we are still responsible for paying cancellation fees to the hotel, tour operator or airlines. Please commit early, so your club does not have to absorb these fees and that these trips can proceed as planned.