Today's blogcast will be a short one because I'm spending so much time driving (and other things) from Thursday afternoon until the start of Friday's show.
Today's show comes to you from Winter Park, Colorado for what is always my favorite show of the year, at the Wells Fargo Ski Cup benefiting the National Sports Center for the Disabled, or NSCD. NSCD is a wonderful organization that offers outdoor activities year-round for people with disabilities ranging from missing limbs to partial paralysis to blindness. Kayaking, horseback riding, and lots of other summer activities, and of course skiing and snowboarding in the winter. The US Paralympic Ski and Snowboard teams train at Winter Park and meeting with these “disabled” athletes is always an incredibly inspiring experience, not least because every one of them is much faster on the mountain than I am (which is why I put disabled in quotes a moment ago.). They’ve all overcome difficulties I can barely imagine. In that way, they’re my heroes.
48th Annual Wells Fargo Ski Cup - NSCD
Please consider supporting NSCD through a donation or maybe bidding on some of the incredible items and experiences available in the silent auction:
Listen to the full show below!
Some of today's guests (Hear full interviews below):
John Papai (former USMC and law enforcement, now NSCD athlete): Home | One Legged outlaw
Erik Petersen directs ski and snowboard training for the US Paralympic Team through NSCD's Competition Center: Competition Center - NSCD
James Thurston is a Paralympic sit-skier from New Zealand: (20+) Facebook
Cassie Grenier, from Granby, CO, suffered a terrible climbing accident that left her with a traumatic brain injury and massive damage to both eyes and is now a paralympic athlete. Meriden Woman With Traumatic Brain Injury Trains For Paralympics | Meriden, CT Patch
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Have a tremendous weekend, and when things seem a little difficult, please remember what all of these folks at NSCD have gone through, are going through, and have overcome...and remember that for most of us, what seem like troubles are, at most, minor annoyances, and that all of us should be grateful for everything we have and all we can do, and should be inspired by those who overcome obstacles that might cause most of us to give up.