There aren’t many winter activities that match the thrill of standing on top of a mountain and then taking it on with the help of skis or a snowboard. The sensations created by letting go, gathering ...
If it weren’t for adaptive skiing and other empowering outdoor activities like it, Vijay Viswanathan isn’t sure life would be worth living.Viswanathan, a 20-year-old from Boulder, has been confined to ...
After Mankatoan Lynette Volkman injured her spinal cord in college and lost the use of her legs, she came to miss the physically active part of her life. Several years later, she joined a program that ...
TAHOE — It's a bluebird day in Tahoe in early January, the sun is shining through a cloudless sky and the ground is covered in fresh powdery snow. The conditions for skiers and snowboarders arriving ...
The Ski Apache Adaptive Ski Program is gearing up for the 2018-19 season offering skiing and snowboarding for the physically and developmentally disabled to participate in winter sports. This is the ...
Since 1968, this ski resort in southeast Minnesota has been teaching downhill sports to students with a range of disabilities from blindness to cerebral palsy Dave Munson, left, and Kyle Gaffaney, ...
"I have a need for speed," said 10 year-old Annie Archambeau, as she suited up for a couple of runs down Spirit Mountain. Archambeau is just one out of many skiers with a disability who come to the ...
Jenn Ochs enjoys a lesson with Ignite at Eldora Mountain Resort. Courtesy: Ignite Adaptive Sports Last month, I got to go skiing at Eldora with Ignite Adaptive Sports. I skied a lot growing up. When I ...
The first thing I notice is that I can’t scratch my nose. The truth is I can scratch my nose, but I have to learn how to do it strapped on a bi-ski. My arms pretty much strapped in two outriggers and ...
Huddled inside the Keystone Adaptive Center, Dave McKenna doesn’t look like he just came from the most inspiring ski experience of his life at Keystone Resort’s Dercum Mountain. Decked out in dark ...