NDAA and GMAS Bring TetraSki to Stowe

NDAA and Green Mountain Adaptive Sports are partnering once again this year to host two days of skiing in the TetraSki at Stowe Mountain Resort. We had our first outing of 2023 on January 30.

The TetraSki has been in development for more than six years with the University of Utah Rehabilitation Research and Development Team and is primarily supported by the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation. The TetraSki is the first ski designed for people with complex disabilities. It can be controlled with a joystick or sip ‘n’ puff device, and it offers speed, precision, and stability to skiiers who can’t use a monoski — including people with quadraplegia, cerebral palsy, and muscular dystrophy.

Nate Hanson, the TRAILS and University of Utah’s New England representative for the TetraSki leads the lessons.

Stowe’s first TetraSki user, Rachel McKnight, has been invited to join Nate at the second annual 2023 Brian McKenna TetraSki Express that is hosting the national championship TetraSki race on March 24, 2023 at Powder Mountain, Utah.

The TetraSki is something NDAA has been fundraising for since early 2022. NDAA board member Eric Wright pitched to the Vermont Women Who Care for seed money to bring a TetraSki and trained instructors permanently to Vermont. NDAA remains $20,000 short of its goal to provide the ski at no cost to skiiers.

Our next outing in Stowe is scheduled for March 1.