Mt. Bachelor Charity Ski Week tickets go on sale
Mt. Bachelor announced Wednesday that it will give $50,000 in cash to local non-profit organizations as part of its annual Charity Ski Week program.
When combined with other charitable initiatives, Mt. Bachelor will donate nearly $120,000 this winter to Central Oregon programs dedicated to education and community service.
The Charity Ski Week program allows skiers and snowboarders to purchase up to four (4) full-day lift tickets for $39 each at a savings of over 50% off the regular season adult lift ticket rate. In turn, Mt. Bachelor will donate all of the sales proceeds to the participating non-profit organizations.
Lift tickets are valid to use during an 11-day period in January 2016 – from Sunday, January 3 through Thursday, January 14, excluding Saturday, January 9.
Local organizations benefiting from the 2015 Charity Ski Week program include:
–Children’s Forest
–Friends of the Central Cascade Wilderness
–Make-A-Wish Foundation
–Mt. Bachelor Ski Education Foundation
–Oregon Adaptive Sports
–Sparrow Club
–United Way
There is a limited quantity of Charity Ski Week tickets available for sale through January 2, 2016. Alltickets will be sold through Mt. Bachelor’s website.
In addition to the Charity Ski Week program, Mt. Bachelor places a high priority on supporting local organizations who share the resort’s core values of supporting kids and families in need, environmental sustainability practices and developing the future of academically driven winter sports athletes.
Mt. Bachelor announced in 2012 that it would donate $250,000 over a five year period to support OSU-Cascade’s goal to become a comprehensive, four-year branch of Oregon State University with its own Bend Campus.
Mt. Bachelor also remains committed to its annual Ski For Schools discounted lift ticket program that has generated more than $185,000 in the past 10 years for the Bend-La Pine and Redmond Education Foundations.
Added together, Mt. Bachelor’s cash contributions to local non-profit organizations will total approximately $120,000 this season and nearly $950,000 in the past decade.
“Local charity organizations work very hard to better our community, and we are proud to support their efforts through the Charity Ski Week program,” said Mt. Bachelor President and General Manager Dave Rathbun.
Additional information about Mt. Bachelor’s role in the community can be found here http://www.mtbachelor.com/info/in-the-community/
