[SportsandRec] snow activities

[Kelly Thornbury]

Cross country skiing is very accessible, look up Ski For Light for dates and locations. They provide trained guides, and the courses are grooved and fairly easy to follow blind.  many SFL events also offer snowshoeing which is a lot of fun too. 

Downhill skiing is usually done with a guide, and you follow audible cues with the guide either in front of you or behind you giving me directions.

Snowboarding is done the same way, but if you’ve never snowboarded before you really need to be cautious of catching your downhill edge; it’s quite a body slam into the snow. 

I have snowmobile, with a guide sitting behind me. My guide would tap a shoulder for the direction I should turn, and Cab both shoulders to get me to slow down or stop. We did have to be out of sight of the rental office before I took the controls :-). 



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> On Feb 4, 2022, at 17:15, Ashley Bramlett via SportsandRec <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I’ve not participated in snow activities. I realize skiing is accessible but just never tried it as to me it sounds scary to fall down.
> 
> Anyways, I was also curious to know what other snow related activities you have done?
> How did you do it? Use residual vision? Use a guide to give auditory cues?
> Someday I’d perhaps try some snow activites and wanted to know others experience.
> 
> I was thinking of these activities:
> 
> 1. Snow mobile
> 2. snow boarding
> 3. snow tubing
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ashley
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