Arrive Lee Vining Thur Oct 13 at 8:00 PM for dinner.
Travel to gold point on Friday the 14th.
Explore mine and Ghost Towns on sat the 15th
Return home on Sunday the 16th

We will be meeting at the Turnverein German Restaurant at 33rd and J Street in Sacramento for a great Oktoberfest.
It appears to be the only one in Sacramento so we are going to do our best to further the great
German tradition of glutinous eating and reveling. There are going to have Bavarian Dancers, German food and music.

The cover charge is only $10.00 so come and join us.

The FaGowees race in the Sierra League, which is comprised of several ski clubs in Northern California and the Reno area. Racer levels range from low intermediate to expert. There are 10 ability levels with two age groups in each level. You race against skiers that have the age and ability as you do! Everyone is there to have fun and to improve their skiing while having a friendly competition. There are GS, slalom and one giant slalom races each season for a total of 8 races plus the NorCal and Far West finals.

Races are $20 each or you can buy a race pass for about $75 (FaGowees subsidize your race pass by $25, making your membership almost free! And you also get a wonderful gift if you race 3 times in a season.) You (and your friends that show up in the morning to register for the races) get discounted lift tickets on race day!

The first race is free and there are several race clinics, including those before the first races,

which are sponsored by the Sierra League.

Alpine Meadows – No discount price information at this time. Last year’s: $39, also regular price with blackout dates during holidays. 2004/2005 ticket returns will be accepted through 10/25/2005.

Homewood – No discount price information at this time. Last year’s: $34, $10 discount from the weekend price. 2004/2005 ticket returns are no longer being accepted.

Northstar-at-Tahoe/Sierra-at-Tahoe – The discount price has gone up two dollars to $51. Expect the regular price to be at least $61. 2004/2005 ticket returns will be accepted through 11/15/2005.

Squaw Valley – The discount price has gone up two dollars to $53. Expect the regular price to be at least $62. 2004/2005 ticket returns will be accepted through 10/25/2005.

Sugar Bowl – No information at this time. Last year’s discount price was $45, a discount of $14 from the weekend price. 2004/2005 ticket returns are no longer being accepted.

Robert Rice ~ FaGowee Discount Ticket Coordinator-(916) 996-9842-fagowees@ricro.com

Why not join us as we make a journey to really get lost and live up to the traditions of our FaGowee Forefathers. We’re planning a trip to visit the Woodland Corn Maze and get lost in the pathways amongst the cornfield containing 300,000 towering corn stocks (give or take a few).
With two miles of twists and turns, this life-size puzzle will really challenge our skills.

The maze design is created by computer, and is then plotted out on 8 acres of land using GPS technology. Next, they spend several days “carving” the maze through the corn. It takes most people about an hour to go through the maze and reach the finish line. But if you make all the correct turns, one can actually make it in fifteen minutes. That’s not very likely though.

We will plan on getting together for a time of dining and laughter after we find our way back out of the cornfield. If we get totally lost and cannot find our way out, we will plan on dining on raw corn on the cob. (I know…. that was “corny.”)

This year’s car rally had a few twists not seen before. In the search for Pancho Villa’s hideout, 41 members of the posse all dressed out in sombreros and mustachios searched far and wide throughout the foothills of El Dorado and Amador County for the elusive fugitive. Thanks to the devious nature of the rally masters Laura Thompson, Karen Fontaine and Norman Benedict, everyone ended up going in circles till they arrived only one block from the starting point.

The routes (there were two which crossed each other throughout the route to prevent tailgating) took us from Rancho Cordova, thru Folsom, Rescue, Coloma, the Gold Bug mine in Placerville up to Apple Hill and south to lunch at Montevina winery.

During lunch, complete with Mexican music, teams were challenged to games of pin the tail on the burro, won by Marva Scott’s team, guess how many gummy worms in the tequila bottle, won by Wally Baumgartner, and a 30 second interpretation of the Mexican hat dance, won by The Hot Lips Team, Phillis Hess, Karen Clabeaux, and Jeanne Molineaux. After lunch and games and a little wine tasting the route led us thru Plymouth, Ione, and Wilton before returning to the Heritage Inn in Rancho Cordova.

After a short rest and putting the horses to bed, the posse celebrated with a fantastic Mexican feast and dancing till we dropped. It was a site to behold this room full of FaGowees dressed up in their finest period costumes. After much discussion the judges Paul and Mary Merlo, awarded prizes to Shirley and Eric Schmitt as the best-dressed couple, Linda Henry as the best dressed female and Wally Baumgartner the best dressed male (he looked an awful lot like Pancho Villa himself)

In the morning after everyone made a couple of passes thru the buffet line, the winners were announced. It was very close between first and third place but by a couple of points the team of Sandy Lange and Fred Conjour came out ahead of second place team of Marva Scott and Mike Hart and third place finishers Janice Theep and Ken Howarth. Because of a job re-assignment on the first place team, and the declining of the second place team, the trophy and responsibility for next year’s car rally was passed on to Janice and Ken. With their experience putting on rallies, next year’s event will be a do not miss affair.

After the award ceremony it was time for the raffle which thanks to Karen Fontaine, had well over 30 prizes ranging from ski lift tickets valued over $ 120 to wine and cheese baskets to dinner for two at the Black Angus Restaurant. Because of the mountain of donations rounded up by Karen and the club member’s generosity, we raised $286.00, which along with matching funds from our club, was donated to the American Red Cross in the name of the Sacramento FaGowees for ”the hurricane Katrina relief fund”.