November 10, 2010 (Bolton, VT) – Enjoy a fun day on snow at Bolton Valley Nordic Center in Bolton, Vermont. Experience cross-country ski clinics for every level of skier-from first-timers to seasoned masters! In addition to top-notch instruction, there will be wax demonstrations, a fantastic prize drawing and a fabulous lunch at the Ponds Building at Bolton Valley. Clothing and equipment retailers will be on hand with items to try and buy.

Registration
Please register online HERE! Registration will open on Wednesday, November 10th. The cost of the day is $25 (NENSA members) and $30 (non-NENSA members).

Rentals
Don’t have your own skis? No problem! Bolton’s Nordic Center Staff are very knowledgeable and would love to outfit you. Please contact the Bolton Valley Nordic Center directly (802-434-6876) for rentals.

Groups
We are always excited to see large groups come to Women’s Day. It has become a contest every year to see who comes from the farthest and who brings the most women! Below are the two winners from last year.

Schedule of Events
– 8:45-9:45 – Registration at Bolton Valley Nordic Center
– 10 am – 4pm – NENSA Expo: Equipment suppliers, wax technicians, outfitters and clothiers from the ski industry will be on hand with goods to try and buy
– 10 – 11:40 – Clinics: Skating and Classic technique clinics for first timers, beginners and intermediate level skiers
– 11:45 – 1:15 – Lunch break & raffle drawing, short talk on equipment
– 1:30 – 2:45 – Clinics: repeat of clinics
– 2:45 – 3:30 – Fun wrap-up event, drawing of grand raffle prize and light refreshments

Childcare
Should you need it, childcare is available at Bolton Valley Resort. Your children can either enroll with the Ski School or hang out in the daycare on site! Please call 877-9BOLTON to speak to someone about your needs.

Carpooling
NENSA Women’s Day supports carpooling to Bolton Valley! We encourage you to carpool as a way to reduce your environmental impact and share a ride with friends or meet new skiers who live in your area. The Vermont Agency of Transportation has great Park-and-Ride locations in Vermont. Consider traveling from home with friends or meet up with other women along the way. There are two Park-and-Ride lots near Bolton Valley that are convenient to Interstate 89. If you are coming from the south, use the Waterbury park-and-ride and if you’re coming from the north, use the Richmond park-and-ride.

Bolton Valley Resort
Bolton Valley offers classic Vermont Big Mountain skiing and riding with three terrain parks, night skiing/riding, 64 trails, and 100km of Nordic terrain. With the highest base elevation of any Vermont resort, Bolton Valley averages more than 300 inches of natural snowfall annually. Bolton Valley has miles of alpine trails with more than 10 gladed areas, Nordic and snowshoeing trails.

The Inn at Bolton Valley is a quaint mountaintop inn and village located in the Green Mountains. Only 25 miles from Burlington, Montpelier and Stowe, our property can be used as your starting point to all of Vermont’s greatest attractions. Bolton Valley is easy to reach with only fifteen minutes from interstate 89 Exit 10 at Waterbury or Exit 11 at Richmond, the resort is only 20 miles from Burlington.

This three season resort offers a variety of activities, most notably snow sports, and Bolton Valley has the second highest base elevation of any ski area in the Northeast. The Inn at Bolton Valley’s Sports Center features an indoor pool, whirlpool and fitness center.

The recently renovated Inn at Bolton Valley, located in the heart of the base area, offers a combination of 60 traditional hotel rooms with some larger units. All hotel accommodations are slope side for easy access to the mountain. The resort features a fine dining restaurant, a cafeteria grocery/deli, and a tavern. Chair lifts, restaurants and the Sports Center are all within easy walking distance.

Bolton Valley is offering stellar lodging packages from $79* per person.
– Saturday Night Getaway: $169 per person (based on double occupancy), includes 2 nights lodging, 1 breakfast, 1 dinner, and alpine or Nordic lift ticket.
– Sunday Night: $79 per person (based on double occupancy), includes one night lodging and free lift ticket for Alpine or Nordic.

*Prices based on double occupancy excluding taxes. Discount tickets available ($39 Alpine, $8 Nordic)
Find more information about the resort here: www.boltonvalley.com

Benefit Organization: Girls Move Mountains
Girls Move Mountains’ mission is to nurture girls’ innate capacity for confidence, courage, and leadership through adventure-based experiential education.

Vision
We envision a world in which all girls are confident in who they are, filled with self-love and the power of self-definition, and able to be positive members of their communities as they become adults. However, our purpose doesn’t stop there. We want to see girls become agents of change. When girls are empowered and equipped for leadership and self-sufficiency their community changes in positive ways. While our work is about supporting girls to discover and utilize their full potential, ultimately we are committed to using our work as a vehicle for promoting social justice and grassroots social change.

History
The organization was founded in 2008, building upon eight years of a successful girls’ mountain bike program called Dirt Divas. Dirt Divas was created in 2001 by Vermont educators Nadine Budbill and Jessica Graham who saw a need for creative approaches to empowering adolescent girls. From 2001-2008 Dirt Divas served 110 girls as a small, community-based program operating solely in Morrisville. Girls Move Mountains was created as a parent organization to support the expansion of Dirt Divas and the development of other adventure-based empowerment programs for girls. Since 2008 we have undertaken major expansion with the addition of five new Dirt Divas sites and the development/implementation of a new multi-sport school-year program and a new girls’ rock climbing program. Additionally, we have expanded offerings with adventure clinics for adult women, which raise funds to support our work with girls. In 2010 we will have served 120 girls in Lamoille, Caledonia, Washington, Orleans, and Chittenden Counties. We have been highly successful in engaging a population of girls who wouldn’t otherwise have access to these types of experiences.

Moving forward….
Using adventure based experiential education Girls Move Mountains responds to the known challenges faced by adolescent girls in Vermont. Research shows that girls have many strengths and can be very resilient, but they still face barriers to overall well-being as indicated by reports of persistent gender stereotypes, low self-esteem, depression, poor body image, and disordered eating. Particularly in the rural communities of northern Vermont, poverty and geographical isolation combine to exacerbate these issues. It is critical that girls have access to experiences and supports that develop the skills they need to be resilient and successfully navigate adolescence. In particular, Girls Move Mountains addresses girls’ need for positive role models/mentors, safe spaces in which to discuss and get support around the challenges they face, engagement in physical activity, and productive experiences that keep them physically active, intellectually engaged, and socially connected when they are not in school.

Find out how to get involved here: www.girlsmovemountains.org

Questions? Contact Abby Weissman (abby@nensa.net or 207.944.4720)