EVENT DETAILS

Big Green Returns to Wintergreen

Jul 17 and 18   

Wintergreen Resort

A Resort Getaway without airfare - sign-up deadline extended and members of the other All-Ivy clubs are invited to participate at the Dartmouth-club-members’ prices

Imagine this: a relaxing summer weekend in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, shared with your fellow Dartmouth and ivy friends. This event was very popular last year.

There will be myriad opportunities for fun for all ages and interests: You can go tubing or canoeing, do a zip line or go for a hike, play golf or tennis, laze at the pool, even work out in the fitness center!  Or just take it easy--enjoy a spa appointment, test your palate at local wineries, listen to a Wintergreen Summer Music Festival concert, or just relax in the shade with a favorite book. There's even a special "Treehouse Program" with special activities for kids. Many activities are included with the lodging.

To cap off the weekend, we’ll have a Sunday Brunch and Book Talk with historian and journalist James Zug ’91, award-winning author of five books.  Zug’s senior thesis at Dartmouth was published 17 years later as The Guardian: A History of South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Newspaper. His newest book is about a Trinity College squash coach who has produced the longest winning streak in college sports history (224 consecutive wins) while struggling with a son who is a heroin addict. After doing Trip to the Sea in 1991, James became interested in John Ledyard; in 2005, his biography of Ledyard, American Traveler, came out to wide and positive reviews, even from a certain conservative College newspaper. Ledyard fled Dartmouth College by canoe after his freshman year and pursued many adventures, including a stint in the British Royal Navy ship Resolution on Captain James Cook's final voyage.

Drive time from DC is estimated at 3 hours, from Baltimore and Raleigh it’s 4 hours, and considerably less for members from the Central Virginia club or the Richmond area.

Register online by clicking here.  Registration fee (for any ivy club member):

$40 for members;

$23 for members’ children under 12 (those with a family membership)

$50 for non-members; $28 for nonmembers’ children under 12

This fee covers:

• Friday evening informal gathering
• Saturday - Wine tasting, drinks and hors d’oeuvres at the home of John Taylor, Tuck ’79, with wine from DuCard Vineyards and Scott Eliff ’75. 4:30pm – 5:45pm
• Sunday – Brunch and Book Talk, 11am – 1pm.
• Event discounts and services arranged by your Dartmouth Club hosts!

ALSO please email Barbara Rollins at barbaroll@aol.com, then make your reservations for lodging and the fee activities directly with Wintergreen - using the code on your emailed registration receipt.

Recreation and Activities

Free activities: Overnight guests receive complimentary access to The Aquatics and Fitness Center and Lake Monocan Park. (Day guests pay approximately $15.)
o indoor and outdoor pools, whirlpool, hot tubs
o weights, cardio machines, aerobics & yoga classes
o lake: beach and swimming

The Dome - 12 X-box stations, 2 Nintendo Wii stations, mechanical bull, pool tables, other fun activities (some require fees)

Hiking: - everything from short and easy to long and challenging.

Wintergreen Performing Arts has many films, artist events and some music events for free over the weekend.

Optional Paid Activities (reservations required, make your own)

Tubing or canoeing with James River Runners (min. age 6)
- Tubing: $22 per person, or $25 for the Deluxe Tube.
- Canoeing/kayaking: $25 per person
- www.jamesriverrunners.com 434-286-2338
- at historic Hatton Ferry, 25 miles south of Charlottesville, VA

Wintergreen Performing Arts Concert:
- Classics II, 6pm Saturday - for information, visit www.wintergreenperformingarts.org 434-325-8292.

Golf: Special group rate of $49 and up per person
- includes greens fees, cart and bucket of range balls. (EARLY reservations imperative.)

Spa activities - massage, facials etc. - see website

Tennis: indoor courts @ $36/court hour; outdoor courts at $16 per person.

Lake Monocan Park: rent canoes.kayaks, bikes, paddleboats for $10-$15/hr.

Lodging

Dartmouth Club per night prices for accommodations are as follows (includes sales tax and resort amenity fee). You must register with the Club first in order to receive the 800 # and code which will allow you access to these discounted prices. Make your reservation as soon as possible for best availability.

* Studio room: $160 sleeps 2 in shared queen or king bed
* Lodge room: $171 sleeps up to 2 adults and 2 young children, bed types vary so specify needs carefully; some have a loft bedroom
* 1 Bedrm Condo: $183 sleeps 2 in shared queen or king bed
* 2 Bedrm Condo: $275 sleeps up to 4, usually queen or king bed in one bedroom and twin beds in the other; specify carefully; often a 2-level apartment
* 3 Bedrm Condo: $367 see website for details

Contact friends and see whether a joint accommodation makes sense for you. Some lodgings can be accessed only by a flight of stairs. Wintergreen will honor these rates for 2 days before and after our event if you would like a longer stay. All accommodations have a full kitchen or kitchenette where you can prepare your own food.

See Wintergreen’s accommodations website for details: www.wintergreenresort.com/accommodations or telephone the Wintergreen Resort at (800) 266-2444.