History

The Adelaide University Snow Ski Club has been providing an opportunity for snow deprived South Australian students to enjoy the white, fluffy, snow-life  since 1967.

The club had its first "unofficial" trip to Falls Creek in 1965, staying in the Bogong Ski Club lodge, which at that time was a low, green coloured, galvanised iron structure covered with snow. Over the years AUSKI members were regular guests at the lodge and benefited from the rebuilding of the structure in about 1967. At that time the Bogong Ski club held the prestigeous position of being the only commercial lodge at the foot of the Village and Summit T bars.

After two years of successful trips to the snow, the Club was accepted into the University Sports Association.  1967 was the first year AUSKI went to an intervarsity (this was the around the same time as the birth of the AUSKI yeti, no one truly knows the exact details, historians have been working on it for years). AUSKI had a hard core group of skiers who formed a team and valiantly competed against the might of eastern states universities, who had a smattering of current Australian downhill and slalom champions in their ranks ....

AUSKI has been sending South Australians over to the Victorian Alps ever since, and plans to do so long into the future.  Check out some of the pictues from our first ever AUSKI racing team!!

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Aims

The aims of AUSKI are to:

• develop skiing within the university community
• support all members from the beginner to the elite racer and
• provide a fun and social atmosphere. 
  
  

The main event on the AUSKI calender is the annual ski trip.  Last year saw the largest ever ski trip with over 180 people hitting the slopes at Mount Hotham, making AUSKI the largest university ski group in the country! During the year, AUSKI holds a variety of social events which are open to all AUSKI members.  These events provide a great opportunity for members to mingle with others that share their passion for the snow.  With all these events, our main goals are to promote lifelong friendship, a healthy lifestyle as well as a lifelong passion for skiing and the snow.