The club
No owner, no company — nine volunteers and everyone who turns up
Omineca Ski Club is a non-profit run by volunteers. Trails, buildings, biathlon, coaching, registration and the books are all portfolios held by people from Burns Lake who ski here themselves.
In their own words
“We are a collaborative, professional and enthusiastic group of volunteers.”
That sentence is the club's own, and it is worth taking seriously. Professional is an unusual word for volunteers to reach for, and it is the right one: a club does not run twenty-six kilometres of groomed trail, a lit night loop and a biathlon range for ninety-nine years on enthusiasm alone.
Nobody here is paid to want you on the trails. That is the whole difference between a club and a resort.
What that means for a pass
Pass money goes into grooming, fuel, the buildings and the programs. There is no margin being taken out of it. When you buy a family season pass you are not a customer — you are the reason the trail is set on a Tuesday.
Passes & membership →The executive
The nine people currently carrying it
Every one of these is a volunteer position. The names are the club's published executive.
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President
Cheyenne Murray
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Vice-President
Randy Hamp
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Treasurer & Registrar
Val Anderson
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Secretary
Heather Anchikoski
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Trails
Sean Broadworth
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Biathlon
Karen Broadworth
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Buildings
Kai Epkens
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Athlete & Coach Development
Morgan Paulson
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PR & Media
Amy Dash
The club has not published contact details for individual executive members, so this concept does not list any. Everything goes through the club's own phone number and inbox.
Pitching in
Whatever you are good at, this club has a use for it
The portfolios on the executive are a fair map of what needs doing across a winter. There is no published volunteer sign-up, so the way in is the same as it has been for ninety-nine years: phone, or say something to somebody in the wax cabin.
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Trails
Twenty-six kilometres do not groom, clear or sign themselves.
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Buildings
The wax cabin and the Jean Paulson Lodge both need keeping standing and keeping warm.
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Coaching
Skills Development runs for four to twelve-year-olds, and the club carries a portfolio for developing coaches as well as athletes.
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Biathlon
A range and a biathlon club, both volunteer-run.
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Registration
Somebody empties the green box, banks the cheques and keeps the member list straight.
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Telling people
PR and media is a portfolio here, which is more than most clubs of this size manage.
Contact
Talk to the club
This is a concept site and it has no working contact form. The details below are the club's own published ones — please use them.
- Phone
- 250-695-6340
- info@ominecaskiclub.ca
- Address
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3242 Ski Club Rd
Burns Lake, British Columbia V0J 1E0
Six kilometres south of town on Highway 35
Paying, and the green box
Passes are paid by cash or cheque into the green drop-box in the heated wax cabin, or by e-transfer. There is no online payment, and this concept does not pretend otherwise.
How joining works →About this site
This is an unsolicited concept redesign built by JnP Studio. Nobody at the club asked for it, nobody at the club has approved it, and it is deliberately hidden from search engines. Every fact on it comes from the club's own published material; every photograph is a stock placeholder and is marked as one.
If the club would like it taken down, or would like it finished properly for the hundredth season, either is an easy conversation.