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News And Events: Volunteer At Maine Handicapped Skiing

Passionate about skiing or snowboarding?
Volunteer at Maine Handicapped Skiing!

Is this the year you make the commitment to volunteer for Maine Handicapped Skiing? Are you ready to take your passion for skiing or riding and share it with someone who could use your help and expertise? Maine Handicapped Skiing can offer all that and more! Volunteers are needed in 2008 to teach adaptive alpine and nordic skiing, snowboarding and snowshoeing to over 250 adults and children with physical disabilities.

Maine Handicapped Skiing (MHS), Maine’s largest year-round adaptive recreation program, is entering its 26th year of operation. MHS  is located right at Sunday River, off Sundance Trail at 8 Sundance Lane, up the access road  above South Ridge Lodge.

Maine Handicapped Skiing provides standard and adaptive ski equipment, warm winter clothing when needed and specially trained volunteer instructors to work with children and adults with physical disabilities so they can become independent skiers and riders. Each year over 390 dedicated people volunteer at Maine Handicapped Skiing. We are always looking for interested people who want to share their love of skiing and riding and help others find the same joy in their winter outdoor pursuits.

To qualify as a skiing or riding volunteer, you must be at least 18 years old, be an intermediate skier or rider and have your own equipment. New volunteers are required to take 3 days of training in November and December and are asked to give 10 days as a volunteer instructor during the MHS season from January 2rd through March 28th. Volunteers ski for free when volunteering and they receive a complimentary lift/trail pass for each day they volunteer at Sunday River Ski Resort, Sunday River Inn and Cross Country Ski Center or Sugarloaf/USA.

During Maine Handicapped Skiing’s winter season, MHS offers downhill skiing and snowboarding lessons Sunday through Friday at Sunday River Ski Resort. Cross country skiing and snowshoeing lessons are taught at Sunday River Inn and Cross Country Ski Center Wednesdays and Fridays and on Thursdays at Pineland Farms, New Gloucester. At Sugarloaf, MHS offers downhill skiing and snowboarding lessons on Saturday’s and Sunday’s.

Don’t ski or ride? We have a place for you! Snowmobile drivers are needed at Sunday River to transport participants to different parts of the mountain throughout the day. Photographers and videographers help document the day-to-day excitement of Maine Handicapped Skiing. Indoor volunteers assist with daily program activities, including answering the phone, helping our participants and volunteers and assisting with general office tasks.

Maine Handicapped Skiing also has a Junior Volunteer Program for teens, ages 16 & 17. Junior volunteers learn about the many types of physical disabilities served at MHS and are instructed in numerous adaptive on-snow techniques in preparation for becoming a full-fledged volunteer instructor at age 18.

Make this your year to do something really great for yourself and someone else; volunteer at Maine Handicapped Skiing! For information on becoming a volunteer--email Judy Sullivan, Program Director at jsullivan@skimhs.org , call 800-639-7770.

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