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Only in Southern California would a tradition like Ski-Beach
Day be possible. But then, that's the whole point.
 Certainly, Ski-Beach Day is high on the list of students’
favorite Pomona traditions -- perhaps because it gives them
such a unique set of bragging rights over friends who attend
college elsewhere. After all, how many places are there in
the world where you can, without straining yourself, spend
the morning on the ski slopes and the afternoon frolicking
on the beach?
And that's exactly what Pomona students do once a year. In
February or March, a busload of adventurous students dons parkas and
gloves to try their skills on slopes of the nearby Mountain
High resort. Then in the afternoon they board the bus once
more for the ride to Newport Beach, or one of the other
local beaches, to end the day with a cook-out by the sea,
complete with swimsuits and boogie boards.
"We had plenty of snow in the mountains and warm weather and
sunshine at the beach -- a uniquely Southern California
combination," said Phil Kopszynski, a student organizer of
one of the recent Ski-Beach days. "The biggest problem
anyone faced all day was watching their marshmallow catch
fire while making s'mores."
 Why go to the trouble of doing both in a single day? The
usual answer seems to be: "Because we can."
“Whenever people unfamiliar with Southern California ask me
what the area is like, I like to say it’s one of the few
places in the world where you can wake up in a desert and
experience something like Ski-Beach Day,” says Katie
Spielberger ’05. “I suppose it is rather surreal to leave
the snow and run into the waves, but most of my favorite
memories of Pomona have been surreal moments like that. I
recommend it to anyone. You don’t get a lot of chances to
have a day like this!”
Learn About Other Pomona Traditions.
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