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Skiing and Snowboarding with MS

taking up snowboarding with multiple sclerosis //  

learning to ski with MS  //  adaptive skiing and snowboarding with guides  // 

hitting the slopes on the other side of the world

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Snowboarding with MS

There will always be mountains with multiple sclerosis. And, fortunately, molehills. You might not conquer them all, but you’ll never ever reach a summit if you never ever try. Formerly an expert boarder, I was ready to tackle the mountain again. 

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My Epic Powder Day

If you think you can do it, do it. Don’t wait. Don’t delay. Don’t ever look back and say, “I should have.” I’ll never forget that one day on a snowboard when everything fell into place, including the snow as it was champagne powder.

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Skiing with Multiple Sclerosis

Veronica of Tarrytown, NY, thought her skiing days were over after her MS diagnosis. But boy was she wrong. Six years later, at the age of 58, Veronica was inspired to take back her winters and try adaptive skiing. She hasn’t looked back since.

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Snowboarding with a Bloody Disease

I used to be an expert, double-black diamond snowboarder. I’ve hit steeps at Squaw Valley, gone off-piste in Austria, powder surfed in the Canadian Rockies, and parachuting down the verticals of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. New Zealand was different.

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Hope on a Snowboard

Within months of Susannah’s diagnosis, all the outdoor activities she once enjoyed seemed out of reach. Tripping and falling had ended her marathon training. Fatigue and dizzy spells made caring for her family’s horse ranch exhausting. Then she tried snowboarding.

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DON'T MISS

  • My grand life plan to snowboard until I was 80 was derailed with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and this is how I coped [BLOG]

DIG DEEPER

  • After a day of hitting the slopes, I was out snowshoeing when things started to feel not so right, and for
    good reason: I was having a relapse [BLOG]

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