Few ski resorts can match Heavenly's scenic beauty and expansive network of lifts, terrain, trails and snowmaking. Located on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, Heavenly is the region's largest ski area, featuring the highest elevation and longest vertical drop. The views of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada mountain range are magnificent.

We are going to do a carpool trip the weekend March 9th to 11th to Caberfae MI. The condo complex has an indoor pool, hot tub and steam room. We will do a group dinner in one of the units or in the clubhouse, if it is available. People will be responsible for their own breakfasts and lunches.

Keystone Resort is comprised of three incredible mountains - Dercum Mountain, North Peak and The Outback. They offer some of the best terrain: 5 bowls, bumps, glades, rails... Keystone is the largest ski resort in Summit County and the closest to Denver. Keystone has the most reliable conditions, 230 natural inches of snow each year and 956 acres.

Suggested Itinerary: Friday night - Set up camp and Pot Luck Dinner. Friday night Barbecue is provided by the Pine Point. Please BYOB and bring a dish to pass. Saturday: Reservations are set for 10:00 Kayaking. Campfire Breakfast provided and more Barbecue for Sat dinner.

Join Pine Point for a build your own adventure weekend! Wildcat Mountain State Park has 20 miles of hiking trails. The Elroy-Sparta Bike Trail is 32 miles long. Kickapoo Valley Reserve, which borders to the south of Wildcat Mountain, has another 60 miles of hiking trails and 24 miles of mountain biking trails. 

Join us for some blues & great conversation on the third day of the 33rd Chicago Blues Festival. Make sure to grab your blanket, picnic basket and, not to forget, your fabulous self! The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago's Music Festivals.

This was listed as the largest ski resort (at 5,800 acres) in the United States before the merger of Park City/Canyons. More acres than skiers - boasting about two acres per skier as they disburse over the inbounds(!) terrain. Consistently recognized short or non-existent lines. What more can you ask for?

Terrain: 27 percent beginner, 38 percent intermediate, 35 percent advanced/expert. Elevation: Top of resort is 11,000-foot Hidden Peak, lowest point on the mountain is bottom of Baby Thunder chairlift at 7,760 feet. The 125-person Tram covers 2,900 vertical feet in approximately 7 minutes. 

THIS IS PINE POINT'S GRAND DADDY OF MIDWEST TRIPS!

We are returning to Marquette after a couple years off. This is one of the best places in the Midwest (we just wish it was a little closer but that just means more party time on the bus).

We will ski a different hill each day, including Boyne Mountain, Boyne Highlands, and Nubs Nob (we may switch this to Shanty Creek if the snow is better there).

Peaceful pools and winding channels make the Skokie Lagoons a prime destination for boating and fishing. At the Lagoon there is an island in front of the launch that usually takes 45 minutes to an hour to circle; another route is to go north under Tower Rd. and circle back. This can be about 1 hour. Doing both would be a 2-hour trip. 

With 4200 acres and the largest terrain park in North America, Banff is home to one of the longest ski seasons in North America. Our lodging is on Banff Ave - on the main street in town with many restaurants, bars, shops, and a grocery store nearby. So pack your bags and join us for what should be a FUN trip as we invade Canada again.

Chestnut has a 475-foot vertical drop with some great beginner slopes and a couple heart dropping steep runs. The Farside (terrain park) has more than 25 rails and features and is served by its own triple chair lift. It’s the largest of its kind in the Midwest. There are 3 restaurants in the 20,000 sf lodge with choices to satisfy the mid-day hunger pangs.

Friday and Saturday, we will be headed to the slopes of Granite Peak for 2 fun days on the snow there plus 3 nights of lodging. On Sunday morning, we pack up and start our drive home. But, wait, there's more skiing! We stop at Cascade for a fun filled day on a different ski hill.

Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, Pine Point is hosting our 3rd annual White Elephant Holiday Get-together. "White Elephant" gift exchange fiesta is our funky name for an informal gift swap party with no rules but one: to have a great time! 

Bring family and friends and join us for camping weekend at Benson’s Campground near Campbellsport, Wisconsin, about a 3 hour drive from Chicago. We encourage you try out the weekend activities Pine Point has in store for you, however, if you just want to come out and spend a lazy weekend in the woods – that will work too :) 

Join Pine Point for the first major outdoor activity of the summer. We will start at Caldwell Woods (The Bunker Hill picnic entrance off Caldwell Ave. & Touhy Ave) Saturday morning for a bike ride / skate along the North Branch trail and return for a BBQ about 1:30.

We are heading back to La Crosse WI to ski 2 days at a great place that has the steepest run in mid-America. Are you ready for "Damnation!"? Yes, the exclamation point is part of the run name. A unique, old style chalet has a great fireplace and “award winning bar” at the ski hill. La Crosse has 516 vertical, with 3 chairs and 18 trails.

Join us on this trip to experience Southwestern charm, adobe-style architecture, a special historic place where they use chiles as decorations. To the non-skier Taos is an artistic community, to the skier it's NIRVANA. Few of you skiers have ever been here and most likely if you are a boarder you have never been here (they just allowed boarders a couple of years ago).

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Join us at our first social event of 2015! Come on out on Friday, January 9th for dinner/drinks followed by late night skating at McFetridge Sports Center.

We hop on the bus from Chicago to Wausau WI on 12/31 where we will have a great dinner of pizza, salad, dessert and drinks and other surprises. We arrive in Wausau around 10pm which will give us time to get in for a New Year's Eve Party, Wisconsin Style!

Too early for midwest Skiing/ boarding?? Nah...you'd be right for anywhere other than a trip to Ski Brule! We have been going to Ski Brule at this time of year for the last 16 years and have never had to cancel because of weather.

Christmas comes but once a year! Whether you've been naughty or nice, Pine Point is hosting a White Elephant Holiday Get-together, and you're invited! The holiday gathering will be the first Saturday of December, in our "monthly meeting spot" Jak's Tap in the green room.

You are cordially invited to a super early bird celebration aka Thanksgiving Potluck with Pine Pointers. This is the time of year we put aside work and indulge in scrumptious delicacies! Join us for a wonderful evening of laughs and homemade dishes.

Our first ever Pine Point wine tasting, in April of this year, turned out to be a huge success! We received such fantastic feedback, followed by requests to repeat the event, that it took us no time to schedule another vino date with our wine experts, the Burck family.

The longest camping & biking trip run by a Chicago ski club and, like in prior years, we have the entire hilltop reserved just for us! Bring family and friends and join us for camping weekend at Benson's Campground near Campbellsport, Wisconsin.

We had such a blast biking & grilling on the Memorial Day weekend that it took us no time to set up another fabulous gathering. Join Pine Point for another outdoor activity of the summer. We will start at Caldwell Woods.

The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago's Music Festivals. During three days on five stages, more than 500,000 blues fans prove that Chicago is the "Blues Capital of the World."

If haven't eaten at Iberico, it is one of the most authentic, oldest, and best tapas restaurants in Chicago. More Spaniards go here than Babareeba according to a few of my friends. They have a big variety of mouth-watering hot and cold tapas.

Come join us downtown to see the river dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. 

There is no one in the club that can remember when we didn't have a trip to Marquette (other than 2 years ago) and it is our belief that this is the best place in the Midwest (we just wish it was a little closer but that just means more party time on the bus)

Join Pine Point for one of the best value trips of the season! We are staying slope side in the Copper Mountain Condos, 2 bedroom / 2 bath condos sleep 4 comfortably! Fully equipped kitchens and of course a hot tub. 

Christmas comes but once a year! Whether you've been naughty or nice, Pine Point is hosting a "White Elephant Gift Exchange" and you're invited! 

We have been going to Ski Brule at this time of the year since about 1998 and have never had to cancel. There have been some years when everywhere else in the Midwest was close but Ski Brule was open. 

It's time to put aside works and indulge in scrumptious delicacies! Join us for a wonderful evening of laughs, homemade dishes, and a holiday glass of vino or two... As part of the entertainment we will be showing the classic movie E.T. 

Join us for the first Happy Hour of the season! This is going to be a great year and we want you to be a part of it! We will start Howlin' at 5pm and although the special ends at 7pm, the piano night will go on! 

Skiing four areas on the North shore of Lake Tahoe (Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Olympics, Alpine Meadows, Mt. Rose, and Northstar). Non-stop direct flights, hotel accommodations, buffet breakfasts, hot tubs, and a casino. All this and Ground Hog Day. 

Bargain trip of the year. Five ski days, non-stop direct flights, hotel accommodations, buffet breakfasts, wine and cheese reception, and hot tubs. 

Carnival is as much about games, partying (i.e. free beer), and socializing as it is about skiing. There should be no question about skiing as the earliest closing in the last five years was April 16th. 

Enjoy a picnic with old and new friends as the Grand Park Symphony Orchestra plays Rossini. Bring your lawn chairs, picnic blanket, some food and drink to share. 

Spend seven nights at Sun Valley Lodge Apartments. Round trip ground transportation from Boise to Ketchum (Sun Valley). 

Accommodations include five nights at a Vintage hotel. Round trip ground transportation from Denver to Winter Park. 

Keystone is the largest mountain in Summit County offering 3,148 skiable acres, 20 lifts and 2 gondolas, nestled at the foot of two unique villages. You can ski three mountains with bumps, bowls, steeps, and A51, the #1 terrain park in Colorado. 

Join us for the first trip of the season! Yes there will be snow! Ski Brule typically has the earliest opening of any area in the Midwest. 

We will be dining at Naveen's Cuisine where we will learn to cook Thai dishes from Chef Naveen Sachar and drink some perfectly paired wine arranged by WineKnowProductions founder, Lee Schlesinger. 

How about an afternoon crunching leaves under two wheels? Join us for an Intermediate/Advanced mountain biking day in Palos. Helmets required! Mountain bikes required! 

Join us for the 27th edition of Pine Point's favorite and longest running summer trip. We'll be camping at our usual hilltop site at Benson's Camping Resort on Long Lake near Dundee, WI. We will have maps & trip sheets for 38-, 56-, and 76-mile routes. 

Join us for a night of the best Finnish Symphonic music in the world, a rare chance to hear Sibelius' early work, based on the great national Finnish epic, the Kalevala, the source of more than a dozen of his most important compositions. 

Fireworks on the Fourth of July! What: Janet Butterfield's band, the 100 piece North Shore Concert band, will be playing at the golf club before the 4th of July fireworks. Come early, bring a dish to share, and watch the fireworks with good friends. 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell. 

There is no one in the club that can remember when we didn't have a trip to Marquette and our belief is it's the best place in the Midwest. The last time this trip was not a Super Bowl weekend Da Bears made the Super Bowl. 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell. 

Come join us to dance or just listen to The Flat Cats, based in Chicago. They play a range of vintage and modern music rooted in the hottest swinging jazz and blues, contemporary classics, and timeless standards. 

Seventeen club members have signed up for this trip and now it is sold out! Direct round trip airfare on American Airlines Chicago O'hare to Jackson Hole, WY. Round trip ground transportation from airport to lodging to and from the mountain each day. 

Too early for midwest skiing. You are wrong if the trip is to Ski Brule! We have been going to Brule at this time of year and have never had to cancel. There have been some years everywhere else in the Midwest was close but Brule was open. 

Dinner & a Rock Concert Eels Metro

October 1st - 6pm

The reader has this rated as the #1 recommended event for Friday evening.  

Meet us on the lawn for a picnic with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featuring Verdi's Overture to La forza del destino, Liszt's Les preludes and Respighi's Pines of Rome. This is Pine point's yearly trip to the park for a free concert. 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell. 

Join us for the 26th edition of Pine Point's favorite and longest running summer trip. We'll be camping at our usual hilltop site at Benson's Camping Resort on Long Lake near Dundee, Wisconsin. 

Come enjoy beverages and dinner and meet other Pine Point Ski Club members. The agenda of the meeting is to connect with ski enthusiasts from around the Chicago area and discuss ski trips and plan social events. 

Have a glass of wine, relax, we'll start picnicking at 6:30pm. Be sure to invite prospective members to join in the fun! 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell. 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell. 

Remember the 80s? We could ditch "Joani Loves Chachi", shoulder pads & frizzed hair but the music sure was great! Other than the obvious Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, Price and Madonna, we had INXS, The Bangles, A-Ha, Wham  Soft Cell.