Skiing & Winter Sports

This interdisciplinary program–which includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreation therapy, social work and volunteers–annually takes a group of adolescents, all with various physical disabilities, to Chestnut Mountain Resort in Galena, Ill. During the weekend, they spend the majority of time learning adaptive skiing techniques. The participants return home with a sense of accomplishment, new friends and a newfound belief in their abilities.

Pediatric Rehabilitation Goals

The overall goal of pediatric rehabilitation is to help maximize children’s abilities to interact with and manipulate their environment. In adolescent development, the most important element is forming a group identity. Therefore, therapies with this population are maximized when they focus on integrating the client into peer situations. In combination, outdoor adventure programs are not only gaining tremendous popularity among the general population, but are also becoming a recognized treatment modality in hospitals. A team-driven and peer-oriented recreation opportunity, such as downhill skiing, has great potential for improving quality of life.

The specific goals of the downhill ski program are comprehensive and diverse, and thus best met by an interdisciplinary team. For example, physically oriented goals include working on strength, fitness, balance and coordination. Social-emotional goals include becoming involved with group activities, enhancing feelings that accompany success in a challenging activity and getting a chance to experience independence away from parents and caregivers. The ability to comprehensively work on multiple goals with a number of clients in one program is not only holistic, but potentially a cost-effective approach to treatment.

Selection of Participants

The resort has remained the same size for nearly 25 years, and its beauty makes it a dependable filmmaking locale: Valley of the Sun (1942) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) are among the movies made there.

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Ski areas are certainly more natural than cityscapes, but they still create significant environmental impacts through logging, erosion and damage to wetlands. The Ski Area Citizens Coalition (SACC) encourages patronage of environmentally friendly resorts, based on thorough exploration of the sites’ policies and practices. Robert Redford’s Sundance Resort in Utah was awarded SACC’s first prize in 2001.

Taos Ski Valley received only a “cautious recommendation” that year with a mediocre “C” grade, gaining points for limiting development, but losing them for intense snowmaking and a failure to provide mass transit. Snowmaking can strain water resources, and Ski Valley operates the Southwest’s largest system.

Mickey Blake questions the objectivity of the SACC survey, and points to the resort’s re-vegetation, recycling and expansion-limiting work as proof of its green commitment. “We destroy our environment and we destroy our livelihood,” he explains.

An Artists’ Enclave

The city of Taos lies on the edge of the high desert in the Carson National Forest, amid squat juniper trees, prickly scrub grasses and towering evergreens. “A mix of trendy galleries and native honesty,” according to First Tracks Online Ski Magazine, Taos, where the number of artists per capita is higher than anywhere else in the world, offers a decidedly different experience than most ski towns. The historic Taos Pueblo, home of the Tiwa Indians since at least 900 AD, now enjoys a rich mixture of Anglo, Native American and Spanish cultures.

Dining and lodging opportunities are diverse and plentiful in Taos. For special green accommodations, the Dobson House Bed and Breakfast offers rooms for $110 per night in an Earth-ship, which is a self-sufficient dwelling made from recycled clay, rubber and glass. It’s equipped with its own solar cells, water collection facility and sewage treatment system.

Arizona
Us 18 & older kids plan our day with only having a jet ski to play with….Found a board so we hook up the ski rope to the jetski and try to get up on this board which looks like a wake board w/o the bindings….Since we got the water ski’s too, we water skiied….You end up literally parallel with the jet ski….More skiing and such, having fun, getting tan. Also more family arguing….

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Ask the Expert: Travels with my Aunt
I am a single 49-year old female who in a moment of madness has promised to take her 13-year old niece on a skiing trip during February half-term 2008. She went skiing in America for the first time this year and had a wonderful time.

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EST
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Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:00:04 GMT
Francestown
First added to Goody1959’s list

Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:05:37 GMT

A career in real estate is a choice which an increasing number of people find to be rewarding both financially and personally. Investing in a future as a real estate agent involves both a monetary and a professional commitment, and this commitment to education continues well beyond the minimum courses an individual must take according to provincial laws.

While completing the courses required and achieving the marks necessary to be certified is an important step in setting up your real estate career, it is also the smallest step on the long road to success. These courses will familiarize you with laws regarding real estate and the terms governing the process, but where your success will ultimately be decided is in the quality of in-the-field training you receive. This training will be provided by the brokerage with which you work, so it’s important to screen your brokerage options before you commit your career to them.

The very first thing you should look at in a brokerage is what kind of training program they provide to new agents. Some brokerages will provide minimum training or none at all, and these are the brokerages you want to avoid. Some good screening questions include how many agents the brokerage trains on average each year and how many stay with the company. A brokerage that does not include a comprehensive training program is most likely concerned with quantity of sales rather than quality of service, and is not likely to have a strong ongoing business outside of a real estate boom.

Next, you will want to look at the quality of the training that your short listed brokerages provide. The very best training will include a mentoring program, in which new agents are paired with seasoned veterans. New agents accompany the veterans as they interact with clients at all levels from the house shopping to closing the deal and even through after sale work. There is no more valuable resource and no better training available to a new agent than a seasoned professional who has seen all sorts of clients, markets and environments come and go.

Update From Oz
[ Felice_classic_3.jpg]  Felice has been back in Australia since late spring and recently ( … some great skiing until September.  Woohoo! Last week I finally had some luck with the aussie kick wax situation and the classic skiing was superb in the fresh snow.  This morning the storm

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Dundret
First added to PeetTheEngineer’s list

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 21:56:06 GMT

In his quest for gold at this month’s Salt Lake City Games, Bloom will attempt to pull off a daring move known as a “720 Iron Cross.” Speeding his way downhill, he’ll launch himself into low-earth orbit, making two full revolutions with his skis crossed behind him. If the 19-year-old Loveland, Colorado, native can pull it off, he may very well end up on the medal podium. If he fails, he could end up in traction. “Going 35 miles-per-hour on icy VW-size moguls,” he explains, “man, they hit harder than a linebacker.”

And Bloom should know. Once the Games are over–win or lose–he’ll trade in his ski boots for a pair of cleats and head to the University of Colorado, where he’s slotted to start at wide receiver on the school’s powerhouse football team, his sights ultimately set on the pros. While the two sports might seem an eclectic pairing of pursuits, Bloom’s passion couldn’t be more familiar: “A gold medal and the NFL… it’s the American dream.”