Managing lockers has been frustrating for members and committee. The club has limited space for lockers. Members have had difficulty obtaining lockers. Some lockers were unavailable due to lost keys, or uncertainty about who was using them. We have now overhauled how we manage lockers and hope that this will make the process easier for everyone.

Locker Audit

An audit of lockers was undertaken at the working bee to reconcile our locker register with actual usage. There are a number of lockers that are not empty but are not being paid for. Notices have been placed in these lockers asking that the user contact Hugh James as soon as possible. Any locker not claimed by 1 September will be cleared and reallocated. Other lockers have a notice saying who our records show that it is allocated to. If your locker and the notice do not match, please also contact Hugh so we can amend our records.

Applying for a locker

There is now a form on the website which you can use to apply for a locker. Signs near lockers havea QR code to take you to the form too. Remember that only full members 18 years or older may apply for a locker, and only one locker. When a locker becomes available, it will be allocated to the next eligible applicant.  No lockers will be allocated except by use of this form. Please don't ask the lodge manager or committee members to allocate one or try to swap lockers with another member. 

Lost keys

When keys are lost or not returned, we will install brackets and padlocks instead. You may notice that this has happened on a number of lockers already. This means that locks can be easily replaced in future without the need for the expense and effort requried to procure replacement locker keys.

Clearing of lockers

Lockers that are not being paid for will be cleared and reallocated to other members. This includes lockers that were allocated to unfinancial members and former members. 

We trust that these changes will free up more lockers and create a better way of allocating them to members.

Published: 13 May 2026

A few members have reported issues with the verification codes to log on to the booking system. If you don't receive a verification email

• Check your spam folders, on device and web. Unfortunately we can't control what your email provider regards as spam
• You can also request an SMS instead on the Verification Code screen

• For the longer term, you can change your default verification method for the booking system. In the Members menu, select Login Security to choose SMS or an authenticator app (such as Googe Authenticator) as the default. Setting up an authenticator app takes a few more steps but is more secure and eliminates issues with delays or non-delivery of emails and SMS codes. Many websites and apps provide support for authenticator apps.

Published: 13 May 2026

Notice is given that the 2026 Annual General Meeting of AAC Falls Creek Inc will be held:

DATE: Tuesday, 19 May, 2026
VENUE: via Zoom videoconference and at Quest Cheltenham (37 Station Rd, Cheltenham)
TIME: 7:30 pm AEST - Annual General Meeting to commence

RSVP by 5pm AEST Sunday 17 May 2026 is essential

AGENDA

1. Apologies
2. Receive and adopt the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting
3. Business arising from the Minutes
4. Correspondence
5. Receive and adopt the Committee's Reports
6. Receive and adopt the Profit And Loss Account and Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2025
7. Proposed New Annual Subscription & Levy for 2027
8. Receive and adopt the Auditor's Report
9. Appoint an Auditor for 2026
10. Election of the Committee
11. AAC Business
12. General Business

Preparation and conduct of the meeting

• To be admitted to the meeting, and to participate in the election if required, you must RSVP by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 5pm AEST Sunday 17th May. Prior to the AGM you will be sent a link to join the meeting, whether you intend to attend in person or via zoom.
• The meeting will be kept as succinct as possible. We also need to make voting as uncomplicated as possible, while ensuring that it is done faithfully.
• Therefore all proxies, items of general business must be submitted to the Chairperson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 5pm AEST Sunday 17th May. Any proposed Motions must also be provided to the Chairperson by this date.
• You are strongly encouraged to send any questions to the Chairperson by the same date. There will be an opportunity to submit some questions on the night but questions with notice will be more manageable with the technology.
• Voting may be a bit laborious. Please be patient if votes need to be counted.

For Zoom attendees

• Please prepare in advance. Install Zoom on your computer, tablet or phone and use Zoom’s facilities to test that your audio and video are working.
• If you have a headset with microphone, please use it to reduce background noise.
• Please keep your mic muted during the meeting unless the chairman recognises you to speak. The chairman or his assistant may mute you if necessary.
• We prefer having all cameras active during the meeting but you may be asked to “mute” cameras if there are difficulties.

For in person attendees

• Please wait to be recognised by the chair before you speak. You will need to use a microphone so that you can be clearly heard by zoom attendees.

Eligibility

• Only financial full members aged 18 and over may participate in the meeting. This includes nominating candidates for election, standing for election, voting in elections or on motions at the meeting, assigning or receiving proxies and speaking at the meeting.
• For Proxies and Nomination forms to be valid, both nominator and nominee must be financial at the time of lodging.
• Attendees must be financial by close of business on Monday 18th May. To be recognised as financial, any outstanding payments must be received in the club's bank account.

Election of committee members

The committee recommends that a total of 9 committee members be elected:

• 3 executive members
• 6 ordinary committee members.

(At the committee meeting after the AGM, the committee elects members to specific positions.) If a ballot is required, ballot papers will be sent to all who RSVP-ed. Completed ballot papers are to be to returned by 10pm AEST Sunday 17th May 2026. (If you RSVP after 14 May, you may not receive a ballot paper until 17 May and still need to return it by 10pm.) Results to be announced at the AGM or shortly thereafter.

If you are interested in serving on the committee, you can find out more by contacting the Chairperson or other committee members.

At the time of this notice, all current committee members are intending to stand again this year. 

Nomination forms are available from the link below and must be returned by 5pm AEST Sunday 10th May 2026. If a ballot is required, you will be advised by Monday 11th May and asked to submit a short candidate statement by Thursday 14th May which will be included with ballot papers. 

Documents

• Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting can be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2026/MinutesAGM2025.pdf
• Proxy Forms may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2026/ProxyForm2026.pdf
• Nomination Forms may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2026/NominationForm2026.pdf
• Financial reports (including Auditor's report) can be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2026/FinancialStatements.pdf
• Committee reports may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2026/CommitteeReports.pdf

Jenny Hughes (Secretary)
C/- ProAcct Advisors & Accountants Pty Ltd
PO Box 166 Heidelberg Vic 3084
Phone: (03) 9880-9600
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Published: 19 April 2026

It's almost time to book your winter stays, so this is a good time to highlight any changes in booking procedures and at the lodge.

Race Weekend Changes
Race Weekend has become increasingly popular but often there are groups staying who have no intention of racing. Racing is an important part of the club's eligibility for Not For Profit status under ATO regulations. There will be some changes to Race Weekend booking rules to improve the chances of racers attending.

1. Only members, their spouses and children may be booked in for Race Weekend. (AAC members and immediate family can also attend, as required by AAC National Rules.) The midweek leading up to Race weekend is open to guests as normal, just not the Friday and Saturday nights.
2. If you wish to book online for your spouse or children who are not members, they need to be registered in the booking system. See Registering Family Members in the Booking System for instructions. Otherwise you can still book in spouse and children by contacting the booking officer.
3. The surcharge for Race Weekend has increased to $100. 

Peak Season minimum booking
Single night bookings will no longer be accepted for Winter Peak Season. The mimimum Peak season booking is 2 nights. Single night room changeovers have been putting an unreasonable burden on the lodge manager in the busiest period.

AAC Week and Spring Snow Guarantee 
AAC week has moved to Spring (6-12 Sep), and with it comes a snow guarantee for that week. As a trial, this will be extended until the end of the season.

• In the event that 48 hours prior to your stay there is insufficient snow for at least Towers chairlift to operate, you may cancel your booking and receive a full refund less $20 administration fee.
• This does not cover lift closures for mechanical breakdown, weather, industrial action or other reasons.
• If you cancel because the resort has closed for the duration of your booking, a full refund will be provided.

Policy on Snoring and other sleep disrupting factors
To balance the need of snorers and other members, there is now a booking policy on snoring and other sleep disrupting factors. Please read this if you have a condition that may disrupt roommates' sleep. 

Locker policy changes
Lockers are always in demand but there is limited space for them. The locker policy has been updated to free up lockers allocated to members who cannot use the lodge.

• Unfinancial members will not be entitled to hold a locker. An unfinancial member's locker may be cleared and allocated to another member.
• An Inactive (Overseas) member will also need to surrender their locker, although there are not any members currently in that positon.
• If locker contents are found to be leaking, smelly or otherwise offensive, the Lodge Manager or Committee may deal with them as they see fit.

Full policy

Reminder - Members are required to stay at the lodge with their guests

Here are some other timely reminders of important notes from the last few years:  

• Do not email, SMS or post credit/debit card details to the booking officer. The booking system allows you to make card payments securely or look up our PayID or other EFT details. If for some reason you cannot use these channels, please phone the booking officer. We will never ask you to provide credit or debit card details in writing, except using the Eway secure payment gateway via the booking system.

• Prompt payment for bookings is expected. The Booking Officer will cancel bookings not paid for in the appropriate time. This is within 7 days for normal bookings and 1 day for approved waitlist requests.

• You are encouraged to nominate an emergency contact by updating your member details in the booking system.

• Continental breakfasts will be provided on peak season Sundays, not cooked breakfasts. 

• Please also remember that the ski cages are only to be used for skis, poles and boards, in bags labelled with your name. Boots, clothes and other items must not be included. Otherwise, no items are to be left between visits unless they are stored in a locker.

The Ski Lodge Details tab in the booking system and the Book tab on the club website cover most of the information you need to make a booking and prepare for your stay. The email that is sent 7 days prior to your stay has important information about your stay, including the door code. Please check these resources to see if they answer your questions before contacting the booking officer. Please also forward copies of the email to all your guests.

Published: 30 January 2026

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Family Members (Updated 30 January 2026)

Immediate family of members can be booked in from 8 March instead of waiting for 15 Match when guest bookings open. Until now you have needed to communicate with the booking officer, through phone or email or notes in your online booking. You can now arrange for your non-member spouse and children to be registered in the system so that they will be recognised and given the Family booking priority. Registration of family members is also required if you wish to make online bookings for them for Race Weekend. Having family members registered in the system will also make it quicker to book them in future as their details are remembered. To register a family member, please email the secretary with

• Member nominating them as family
• Relationship to the member
• First Name
• Surname
• Preferred Name (optional)
• email address (optional, if not the same as the member's)
• Gender
• Date of Birth

When making bookings you can still use the notes field to tell the booking officer about intentions to add famiy and guests when their bookings open.

Published: 07 January 2023

The iconic Pub to Pub race was in danger of disappearing. AAC Dinner Plain has stepped in to keep the iconic event going. It is on at the same day as our club alpine race. If you are not participating in our race, then this woud be a great event to support. Start time is 11am, so plenty of time to drive up from the valley if you are not staying on the mountain.

More about the event

The Pub to Pub is a citizen cross-country race from Hotham to Dinner Plain which has been run on the first weekend in August each year for over 30 years.

It starts outside the General at Hotham and finishes at the state school in Dinner Plain - the pub to pub objective is traditionally consummated with lunch at the High Plains Hotel.

The course is approximately 13km on a groomed trail, passing through picturesque snow gums, wide snow plains and passing heritage huts.

The Australian Alpine Club at Dinner Plain Board is leading the organisation and running of the race this year, to continue the tradition of what the Hotham Stakeholders Association (HSA) calls an "iconic event".

We have assistance from the long-time organisers of the event (who stepped down after last year's race), HSA, and the Wangaratta Ski Club in ensuring that the Pub to Pub is not lost to the skiing community and the business communities at Hotham and Dinner Plain.

This endeavour is consistent with the AAC Mission - To promote the sport of skiing and allied winter sports; to promote tests and competitive skiing, and tours and exploration on skis.

You can enter the 2025 Hotham to Dinner Plain XC event now!
Start time:11am, Saturday 2 August 2025 Adults $25, under 18 $10

Enter at https://www.trybooking.com/DCNQS
or scan the code

Published: 02 July 2025

AAC Falls Creek strives to protect the online safety of members when dealing with the club. An important part of this is to only use secure methods of payment.

The booking system is integrated with the Eway secure payment gateway for secure credit and debit card payments.

Within the booking system you can see our PayID or other EFT account details. This means that they do not appear on emails where hackers could intercept and change them to divert payments to their own accounts.

If all else fails, discuss payment options by phone with the booking officer (for bookings) or Deb Poa at Proacct (for subs etc).

But please never send credit or debit card details to the club by email or post. 

Published: 06 November 2025

Our stakeholder organisation, the Falls Creek Alpine Association (FCAA), organises member discounts at various businesses on and off the mountain. This has always needed us to share the discount cards, pinned to the noticeboard.

Now in 2025 there will be a trial of a digital card. AAC Falls Creek will be one of the first clubs to access this. No more going to pay for a meal and realising you forgot to borrow a card. And able to easily enjoy the off-mountain discounts. If you have your phone, you will have the card with you in your digital wallet. If you'd like to go digital, please contact Secretary & IT (Jenny).

This year this we expect to see various discounts at:

On mountain

Falls Creek Hotel
Attunga
Feathertop
Lakeside
Ory's (at Frueauf)
Slides
Sorella (at Elk) 
1550
Central Snowsports 
Yogi's 
Halley's

On the Way

Brown Brothers 
Sam Miranda
Grass Valley

In Melbourne

EMC at Snowski
Roof Carrier Systems

Published: 02 June 2025

You can send any balcony pics to the Communications Officer. New photos will be added above. 

Sunday, 8 July:

Published: 18 January 2025

Notice is given that the 2025 Annual General Meeting of AAC Falls Creek Inc will be held:

DATE: Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
VENUE: via Zoom videoconference and at Quest Brighton on the Bay (250 Esplanade, Brighton)
TIME: 7:30 pm AEST- Annual General Meeting to commence

This will also be a Special General Meeting to make some minor modifications to our Rules of Association.

RSVP by 5pm AEST 18 May 2024 is essential

AGENDA

1. Apologies
2. Receive and adopt the minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting
3. Business arising from the Minutes
4. Correspondence
5. Receive and adopt the Committee's Reports
6. Receive and adopt the Profit And Loss Account and Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024
7. Proposed New Annual Subscription & Levy for 2026
8. Receive and adopt the Auditor's Report
9. Appoint an Auditor for 2025
10. Election of the Committee
11. Special Resolutions to change the Rules of Association
12. A.A.C. Business
13. General Business

Preparation and conduct of the meeting

• To be admitted to the meeting, and to participate in the election if required, you must RSVP by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 5pm AEST Sunday 18th May. Prior to the AGM you will be sent a link to join the meeting, whether you intend to attend in person or via zoom.
• The meeting will be kept as succinct as possible. We also need to make voting as uncomplicated as possible, while ensuring that it is done faithfully.
• Therefore all proxies, items of general business must be submitted to the Chairperson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 5pm AEST Sunday 18th May. Any proposed Motions must also be provided to the Chairperson by this date.
• You are strongly encouraged to send any questions to the Chairperson by the same date. There will be an opportunity to submit some questions on the night but questions with notice will be more manageable with the technology.
• Voting may be a bit laborious. Please be patient if votes need to be counted.

For Zoom attendees

• Please prepare in advance. Install Zoom on your computer, tablet or phone and use Zoom’s facilities to test that your audio and video are working.
• If you have a headset with microphone, please use it to reduce background noise.
• Please keep your mic muted during the meeting unless the chairman recognises you to speak. The chairman or his assistant may mute you if necessary.
• We prefer having all cameras active during the meeting but you may be asked to “mute” cameras if there are difficulties.

For in person attendees

• Please wait to be recognised by the chair before you speak. You will need to use a microphone so that you can be clearly heard by zoom attendees.

Eligibility

• Only financial full members aged 18 and over may participate in the meeting. This includes nominating candidates for election, standing for election, voting in elections or on motions at the meeting, assigning or receiving proxies and speaking at the meeting.
• For Proxies and Nomination forms to be valid, both nominator and nominee must be financial at the time of lodging.
• Attendees must be financial by close of business on Monday 19th May. To be recognised as financial, any outstanding payments must be received in the club's bank account.

Election of committee members

The committee recommends that a total of 9 committee members be elected:

• 3 executive members
• 6 ordinary committee members.

(At the committee meeting after the AGM, the committee elects members to specific positions.) If a ballot is required, ballot papers will be sent to all who RSVP-ed. Completed ballot papers are to be to returned by 10pm AEST Sunday 18th May 2024. (If you RSVP after 15 May, you may not receive a ballot paper until 18 May and still need to return it by 10pm.) Results to be announced at the AGM or shortly thereafter.

If you are interested in serving on the committee, you can find out more by contacting the Chairperson or other committee members.

At the time of this notice, all current committee members except Will Zacharin are intending to stand again this year. A current member has offered to take on the Treasurer position. Like most organisations, the club becomes more reliant on technology to operate efficiently and communicate effectively. We would like to bolster the IT skills on the committee to spread this load. Skills in governance and process improvement are also being sought.

Nomination forms are available from the link below and must be returned by 5pm AEST Sunday 11th May 2024. If a ballot is required, you will be advised by Monday 12th May and asked to submit a short candidate statement by Thursday 15th May which will be included with ballot papers. 

Special Resolution to modify the Rules of Association (our constitution)

1. That the proposed changes to improve Disciplinary hearings and appeals be adopted

An explanation of the proposed changes follows below.

Documents

• Minutes of the previous Annual General Meeting can be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/MinutesAGM2024.pdf
• Proxy Forms may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/ProxyForm2025.pdf
• Nomination Forms may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/NominationForm2025.pdf
• Financial reports (including Auditor's report) can be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/FinancialStatements.pdf
• Committee reports may be downloaded from aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/CommitteeReports.pdf
• Specific changes proposed to Rules of Association may be downloaded from 
  aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/ProposedChangesDetails2025.pdf
• Current Rules of Association are available at 
  aacfallscreek.com/xDocs/rules/Rules2024.pdf

Jenny Hughes (Secretary)
C/- ProAcct Advisors & Accountants Pty Ltd
PO Box 166 Heidelberg Vic 3084
Phone: (03) 9880-9600
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Explanation of Proposed Changes to Rules of Association

A. Summary

Most of the proposed changes were adopted by the AGM in 2024 but some details needed more work in the rules relating to disciplinary hearings and appeals

B. Reason for Proposed changes

C. Concerns at previous AGM

There was some unintended ambiguity in the proposed new wording of Rules 28 and 29. This has been clarified.

There was also a typo in the change proposed for Rule 27. This has been corrected.

The AACFC Committee has now settled on this revised version and it is was circulated to members who were present at the 2024 AGM. Some questions from members were received but we understand that these were all satisfactorily addressed.

The specific changes are detailed in aacfallscreek.com/pdf/AGM2025/ProposedChangesDetails2025.pdf

The current Rules of Association can be found at aacfallscreek.com/xDocs/rules/Rules2024.pdf

Published: 27 April 2025