[Capchapohio] FW: Blind / Vi Alpine Ski Festival Week Opportunity

[J.W. Smith]

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Dr. J. Webster Smith

President, National Federation of the Blind of Ohio

PO Box 458 Athens, OH 45701

740-592-6326

 

"Changing what it means to be blind"

For more information go to nfbohio.org

 

From: Scott [mailto:kmssanderson at aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:27 PM
To: jwsmithnfb at frontier.com
Subject: Blind / Vi Alpine Ski Festival Week Opportunity

 

Dear J.W. Smith

I am a 45 year old, legally blind, alpine skier that with the assistance of
Maine Handicapped Skiing is organizing / hosting a Blind / Visually Impaired
Ski Festival Week, February, 12 - 16, 2012, at SugarLoaf Mountain Resort in
Carrabassett Valley, Maine. For complete details about this event please
refer to to this link:

 

http://nevifest.org/

 

Our motivation for hosting the Blind / Vi Ski Festival Week is getting more
Visually Impaired / Blind people out on the slopes!

 

 The idea for the week grew out of my experience with diminishing eye sight
and the love of skiing. I was about to hang up my ski's four years ago
thinking blind people don't ski and my wife insisted I try finding a blind
skier vest that we saw once on a ski trip. It must have been meant to be as
we were able to find a BLIND SKIER vest some where online. While wearing my
new high viz orange, BLIND SKIER vest skiing we randomly met Toby Brudet,
who runs Maine Handicapped Skiing program at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort in
Carrabassett Valley, Maine. Meeting Toby, and the other MHS volunteers has
literally changed my life. I was on the verge of hanging up my ski's and
calling the sport, I love, a memory. After becoming a regular, constant,
every weekend, participant of MHS my love of skiing has multiplied a
thousand times. My wife, Kristine, has been trained as a blind skier guide
and using the techniques taught by MHS we are hitting the slopes every
chance we can. 

 

The Blind / VI Ski Festival is my attempt at preventing anyone with the
passion to ski NOT to stop skiing or for people with the passion to start
skiing. We are planning to provide Blind / VI SKIER bibs and Guide bibs to
all the participants and they can take them home to use. During the event
MHS volunteers will provide skier and guiding instruction for people that
want to learn or enhance their abilities for all levels of skiers from
beginner to experts. For visually impaired / blind skiers and their guides
that want to just to come ski with share the week they are welcome too. We
are trying to offer an opportunity for all to enjoy by offering ski and stay
packages and organizing transportation from the Portland, Maine, airport.

 

Additional family and friends are encouraged to come and share the week too
but we need to limit the participants to 25 so we have enough staff to
support the event.

 

For more information about Maine Handicapped Skiing please visit their web
site at:

 

 <http://www.skimhs.org/about_us.php> http://www.skimhs.org/about_us.php

 

Look forward to hearing from you!

 

Kind Regards,

 

Scott Anderson

 

Email: kmssanderson at aol.com

 

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