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GoRover Recommends Getting Involved!!
Most ski resorts have an adaptive winter sports program. These programs are great avenues for teaching and assisting people with special needs to ski and snowboard. Not only are these programs great for the kids and adults learning to ski and ride but GoRover wants you to know there are great opportunities to volunteer your time. I volunteered for 4 seasons with Winter Park's NSCD (National Sports Center for the Disabled) and it turned out to be one of the most rewarding endeavors I’ve been involved with. If you have special needs and would like to try skiing or snowboarding I highly recommend looking at one of these programs. If you are already a good skier or snowboarder I also highly recommend volunteering your time to one of these programs. Believe me it’s very fun and rewarding!

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Below are two programs for your perusing. GoRover.com and SkiRover.com support these organizations and highly recommend your involvement at any level. 

Keystone Adaptive Center

nscddonationad.jpg Headquartered at The Mountain House at Keystone Resort at the base of Discovery Lift, the Keystone Adaptive Center provides alpine skiing and snowboarding lessons to people with disabilities and other special needs. Lessons are conducted on a personalized, one-on-one basis, and include all instruction, on-hill guiding and support, specialized equipment and lift ticket. The Center is affiliated with the Professional Ski Instructors of America and provides all disciplines of adaptive skiing, including four-track, visually impaired, three-track, mono-skiing and bi-skiing. In the summer months, the Center also provides programs in activities such as handcycling, rock climbing and river rafting.

The Keystone Adaptive Center is a private, non-profit educational center and is operated by the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center, a world-renowned adaptive sports program that has provided a wide range of adaptive outdoor experiences for over 30 years.Call (800) 383-2632 or (970) 453-5633, or visit www.boec.org for more information.

Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC)

Since 1976, the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center has been providing empowering outdoor experiences to people of all abilities. The Center offers adaptive ski programs at Breckenridge and Keystone Resorts, adaptive outdoor education camps at a campus in Breckenridge and wilderness programs throughout Summit County and the region. Activities are available year round and include skiing, snowboarding, ropes course, challenge activities, rock climbing, river rafting, canoeing and many others, all adapted to be accessible to all abilities.
Call (800) 383-2632 or (970) 453-6422, or visit www.boec.org for more information.

Nation Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD)

The National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) began in 1970 as a one-time ski lesson for children with amputations for the Children's Hospital of Denver.

Today, the NSCD is one of the largest outdoor therapeutic recreation agencies in the world.

Each year, thousands of children and adults with disabilities take to the ski slopes, mountain trails and golf courses to learn more about sports - and themselves. With specially trained staff and its own adaptive equipment lab, the NSCD teaches a variety of winter and summer sports and activities to individuals with almost any physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral diagnosis.

The mission of the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) is to provide quality outdoor sports and therapeutic recreation programs that positively impact the lives of people with physical, cognitive, emotional, or behavioral challenges.

 

Call 970.726.1540 or visit our web site at www.nscd.org for more information.

 
 

 

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