Welcome to the Yosemite Winter Club !

The Yosemite Winter Club (YWC), a non-profit organization bringing winter sporting opportunities to outdoor enthusiast since 1928.

Yosemite Winter club membership dues and donations enable us to sponsor nordic and downhill skiing, snowboarding, ice-skating, hockey and social events within the greater Yosemite Community. With your membership you will gain greater access to activities in Yosemite National Park, have the ability to purchase discounted lift tickets to Badger Pass and rink passes to Curry Village Ice Rink, as well as discounts on rental equipment and activities.

HOW DID THE WINTER CLUB GET STARTED?
“In the fall of 1928, Donald Tresidder, president of the Curry Company [the primary concessioner in Yosemite National Park] formed the Yosemite Winter Club to ‘encourage and develop all forms of winter sports and to advertise and exploit the great advantages, beauties and healthy benefits of winter in the California Sierra to all lovers of outdoor life.’ In its eighty year span to the present day, the club has played a leading role in the evolution of winter sports in California.” (Magic Yosemite Winters by Gene Rose; 1999:21).
During the first five years of the Club’s formation, Badger Pass Ski resort opened and tobogganing and ice-skating took off in Curry Village. Backcountry skiing was encouraged when the Tressiders had the Snow Creek Cabin constructed near the north rim of Yosemite Valley.
By 1941, a second ski hut was built at Ostrander Lake. Both Snow Creek and Ostrander remain popular overnight, backcountry destinations, while ice-skating at Curry Village, and skiing at Badger Pass remain popular front-country destinations Today, the Yosemite Winter Club is comprised of hundreds of members who share enjoyment of winter sports in Yosemite.
The Winter Club remains tightly linked with the National Park Service and Yosemite’s primary concessioner: Delaware North Corporation. The purposes of this club are to foster regional amateur and recreational Nordic and Alpine snow skiing, snowboarding, skating competitions and events, while supporting and developing amateur athletes and recreational winter sport enthusiasts for such competitions and events.