Adaptive Adventures Brings Combat-Injured Soldiers to Vail
For Immediate Release

Adaptive Adventures - a Colorado-based Adaptive Sports nonprofit organization -- is sponsoring a group of disabled soldiers to attend the 5th Annual Adaptive Adventures Vail All Mountain Ski Camp. Soldiers attending recently became disabled as a result of injuries sustained during tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The soldiers will join another dozen skiers with physical disabilities at the event, and will receive expert instruction in skiing and snowboarding from both the Adaptive Adventures and Vail Ski Schools. Adaptive Adventures Ski School Director, Matt Feeney, expects the event to be a huge confidence builder for young soldiers now learning to live with disabilities. "It can help transform people's thoughts about their disabilities and reanimate them in life," said Feeney, who is also disabled after a diving accident in 1985 left him paralyzed.

The highlight of the camp will again be the awesome beauty and diversity of Vail Mountain - the #1 ski mountain in the U.S. Another feature at the event will be the Friday night banquet at the Colorado Ski Museum and newly formed Disabled Ski Hall of Fame. Also coming the the dinner is 12-time Paralympic Gold Medallist, Sarah Will from nearby Edwards, Colorado.

A unique aspect of Adaptive Adventures' ski camps is the staff, which is comprised mainly of coaches with disabilities. Feeney and Executive Director Joel Berman - who lost his leg in 1983 - founded Adaptive Adventures in 1999, and will be coaching at the camp along with Paralympian Sarah Will. Along with these instructors, Vail Resorts world renowned adaptive program will be donating four instructors per day to help teach the wounded soldiers and other participants to enjoy freedom on the mountain. "The Adaptive Adventures All Mountain Camp is something we really look forward to every year," commented Ruth Demuth - Director of the Vail Adaptive Ski School. "This camp is such a unique way for athletes of all abilities to come together to ski, socialize, and experience the Vail Valley."

The expanded focus of this year's camp is made possible by a generous donation from the Boeing Company, and the Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project. The 2007 Camp -- organized by Adaptive Adventures in Evergreen and Chicago -- is also sponsored by Vail Resorts, Colorado Mountain Express, Moe's Barbeque, Colorado Ski Museum, The Roost Lodge, and Fidelity Investments.

For more information, please call Adaptive Adventures at 303.679.2770 or
email: info@adaptiveadventures.org