Important!

Registration will be on or about on December 4, 2008 or earlier if sold-out
prior to that date. Registration is on a first come - first served basis,
and this trip typically sells-out prior to the registration deadline.
Last year we had more than 15% of the total available slots on the wait list,
weeks before registration was supposed to close.

Don't wait and get left out!

Come and join us on one of the major Father/Daughter events of the year! We will stay at the Cascade Village condominiums, near the Durango (formerly Purgatory) Mountain Ski Resort. Each unit has a fully-equipped kitchen, great room, bedrooms, and bathrooms. This trip is for non-skiers as well as skiers and snowboarders. Activities may include skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, snowmobiling, and sleigh rides. Come and enjoy a fun and memorable weekend with your daughter.

You must register on-line. Once you complete your on-line registration you will be emailed forms that must be signed, notarized and turned in to Mrs. Nancy Lockman at Xavier. If space runs short as we expect it to, preference will be given to those who register early. Due to pre-payment commitments, there are no refunds after December 4th 2008. Registrations received after December 4th 2008 will be on a space available basis at additional cost. Join the fun! Spend some time with your daughter, her friends, and their dads!

The Father/Daughter Ski Trip is for fathers (or male guardian) and daughters. Mothers, brothers, and boyfriends are not permitted on this trip. One father may take and be responsible for up to two Xavier students. These may be sisters or a daughter and a friend who is in need of a responsible parent to participate.

Registration fee includes travel by bus, lodging, Friday evening welcome buffet, breakfast each of the three days while in Durango and even your bus driver's tip. Lift Tickets now include an on-mountain lunch are package options, as are lessons and equipment rentals. Durango Mountain is a great place for beginners to learn to ski or the more experienced to test their skill. The resort has excellent instructors and the mountain has terrain suitable for all levels. If you choose to rent equipment, your pre-paid rental will be waiting for you at the resort when we arrive on Friday night.

Trip Details

Travel to Durango and back will be on luxury motor coaches. We will depart Xavier on Friday, January 16th at 6:30AM. You should arrive by 5:30AM to find your bus assignment, stow your gear on your assigned bus and be ready to leave on time. We strongly recommend that you have someone drop you off and not leave your car at Xavier, however the lots will be locked up and you may leave your car there if need be. Once on the road, movies and music are available. Girls are encouraged to bring their favorite DVDs that are acceptable to all audiences. We will stop in Kayenta, AZ for a quick lunch and plan to arrive at Cascade Village by 5:00PM. When we arrive, everyone will receive their room assignments and keys. Information packets will be distributed on the buses so you can go directly to your room. A welcome reception and dinner buffet will begin shortly after we arrive and is included in your trip registration fee. After dinner on Friday night there are no activities planned so everyone can get a good nights rest.

During the registration process, you may specify a room mate preference for your daughter. We will make every attempt to put students requesting to room together in the same condominium. Our young ladies will share a condominium that sleeps 4 - 8 girls. This puts two girls in some beds when large enough and utilizes sleeper sofas. Girls will be assigned condominiums with other girls in the same graduating class to the greatest extent possible. Each dad will have his own bed, and no dad will not be assigned a sofa bed. Dads also may express a preference for roommate. As with the ladies, we will do our best to accommodate roommate preferences. When no preference is expressed, we will do our best to assign condominiums having the other dads who have girls rooming together.

Lifts open at 9:00 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. Our buses will be available to take us from Cascade Village to the lifts and bring us home at the end of the day, running about every 20 minutes. Once at the mountain, you will find lessons, food and souvenirs. A new feature of this year's trip is our on-mountain lunch arrangements, which include a private clubhouse room suitable for relaxing and meeting friends while enjoying a wonderful lunch, catered by the Dads' club. The clubhouse will be open all day Saturday and Sunday and have water and soft drinks, as well as a no-host bar for dads. Lunch and access to the clubhouse is included in the price of daily lift tickets. Please note that you must book your lessons and rental equipment when you register to receive the group rates and we will not be able to accept any changes after registration closes. If you do not decide to purchase lift tickets with your package, it will be your responsibility to purchase them while on mountain.

On Saturday evening you have 3 choices for activities. As in years past, you may take a bus into town for mass and dinner in the quaint town of Durango. Busses will depart Cascade Villiage at approxiately 5:00pm and leave Durango at 8:30pm. If you choose to have dinner in Durango, we strongly recommend that you make reservations. This year's new Saturday option is dinner at the Durango Mountain Resort in their new restaurant, "Purgy's," then back to Cascade Village for a popcorn and munchie movie night for the ladies and a poker night for the dads. Lastly, you may opt to handle your own activities for the evening. You will be required to choose one of these three options when you register so get together with your desired condo roommates to prior to registering to decide which option you will all select.

On Sunday evening we will have the traditional Senior Dinner at the Sow's Ear, which is of course included with your registration fee if your daughter is a senior. We will also have a bus running to the Chop House every 20 minutes over the course of the evening. Other than those two options, Sunday evening you are free to enjoy the evening as you see fit. If you choose to dine at the Chop House we strongly recommend that you make reservations in advance.

We depart from Durango at approximately 8:00am on Monday January 19th. We expect to arrive at Xavier approximately 6:00pm. It is strongly recommended that you have a cell phone charged up so that you may update the party picking you up, if you have not left your car at Xavier. All good things must come to an end, so every student is expected to be in school as usual on Tuesday, January 20th with their homework complete.

Trip Package Options

• The cost for the trip is $410 per person, which includes transportation, lodging, breakfast and beverages on the bus to Durango, Friday night welcome reception, Friday night buffet dinner, breakfasts for all 3 days, bus driver tip and a commemorative gift.
• Lift tickets are $55 per person per day. You have the option of skiing two days, one day or not at all. Included in your lift ticket purchase is the on-mountain lunch and clubhouse access for the day your lift ticket is valid. Historically, lunch on the mountain has been of varying quality and/or problematic, so we are very pleased to include lunch this year. Patrick Hickey is heading up the catering effort for the clubhouse, which should have water and soda as well as a no-host bar for the dads. There is a big-screen in the clubhouse as well.
• Ski and snowboard rentals are available. Equipment pickup will be Friday evening after dinner. There will be a new process for picking up your equipment this year to make the process as smooth as possible. There are three ski packages: basic, for $25.00; Sport for $30.00; and Performance for $35.00. snowboard packages are all $35.00. All packages include breakage insurance. If you are a first-time skier, the Basic package will be adequate. As an intermediate skier, the Sport package is worth the difference for better boots than the Basic package, and the Performance package is the best choice for advanced/expert skiers.
• Half-day and full-day group lessons are available on Saturday for a cost of $45.00 for half-day and $70.00 for full-day. Private lessons are available by contacting the Durango Mountain Resort Ski School directly at (970) 385-2169.

You don't have to ski to enjoy the trip. Durango has lots of wonderful other activities like fly fishing, snow mobiling and hiking, as well as many large screen TVs in local establishments that will most likely be showing football. Please don't let being a non-skier stop you from joining us on this great trip! Details and reservations for these activities is your responsibility and are often sold out by time we get there, so it is strong recommended that you make reservations in advance. Additional details and reservation contact information for other activities will be provided via email after registration hs closed.

Questions related to the trip should be directed to Steve Pritulski at 602-803-0268 or steve@swgrowth.com. Questions related to the operation of the online registration form should be directed to Ed Purkiss at (602) 264-4323 or ed@me3inc.com.

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