Triumphant return nearly 20 years in the making
By Matt Saintsing Eighteen years have passed since Kevin Blanchard first stepped foot on the mountain in Snowmass, Colorado. As a...
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“It sounds cliché,
but adaptive sports
saved my life.”
Laurie Wood, Navy Veteran
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Apr 16
Collaboration from VA, U.S. Air Force Veteran Advances Adaptive Sports
By Medina Ayala-Lo, Public Affairs Specialist, Bay Pines VA Healthcare System SNOWMASS, Colo. – Five decades ago, earning the title of...
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Apr 16
Winter Sports Clinic helps MST survivor heal
By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – Her eighth trip to the...
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Apr 16
Ski instructors: “You get more than you give.”
By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – At the top of the mountain...
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Apr 16
Team Miami VA is Ready to Go in Sand, Snow
By Medina Ayala-Lo SNOWMASS, Colo. – Draped in neon orange fleece, the assembly of Veterans and coaches who comprise the Miami VA...
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Apr 16
Blind Veteran enjoys being back on the slopes
By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – With seven gold medals and...
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Apr 16
Air Force Veteran defies limitations at the Winter Sports Clinic
By Janelle Beswick, Interim Public Affairs Officer, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. – One warm August night in...
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Apr 16
USMC Veteran Finds Camaraderie, Embraces Challenges on the Mountainside
By Medina Ayala-Lo, Winter Sports Clinic writer SNOWMASS, Colo. – If life has taught anything to U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Erik Jansson,...
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Apr 7
From tragedy to triumph on the mountain
By Kevin C. Miller After a yearlong deployment to South Korea, Army mortarman Jeremy Miller finally returned home to his wife, Viola, at...
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Apr 7
U.S. Air Force Reservist Aims High at Annual Winter Sports Clinic
By Medina Ayala-Lo SNOWMASS, Colo. – For U.S. Air Force Reserve Citizen Airman Maj. Monica Riggs, “aiming high” isn’t a belief that’s...
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Apr 6
Adaptive sports offers soldier new sense of purpose
By Janelle Beswick, Acting Public Affairs Officer VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System SNOWMASS, Colo. - Command Sergeant Major...
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Apr 4
Army Veteran and amputee focuses on Paralympic dream, future goals
By Donna J. Bell, communications director, VA Office of Integrated Veteran Care “Anger is not a perfect circle of stages you work through...
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Apr 4
Clinic shows disabled Army Veteran she can ‘do anything’
BY ELIZABETH DEPOMPEI Brenda Reed out-processed from the Army on crutches. Reed had injured her foot while running in ill-fitting combat...
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Apr 4
Army Veteran nearly killed in Iraq personifies determination
BY BRIAN BUCKWALTER When Army Veteran Erik Castillo came out of a nearly two-month coma, he was at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in...
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Apr 3
U.S. Army Veteran, VA recreation therapist Foster Enduring Bond on Miracle Mountain
By Medina Ayala-Lo Winter Sports Clinic writer SNOWMASS, Colo. – It’s been nearly three decades since U.S. Army Veteran Brent King and...
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Apr 1, 2023
Disabled Air Force veteran to others: ‘Life doesn’t suck’
Matthew Kosto has an honest, if not blunt, catchphrase: Life doesn’t suck. It’s a mantra that took on a new meaning for him after he lost...
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Mar 31, 2023
Veteran, Cyborg or both?
SNOWMASS, Colo – John Wade, or Big John, as he is known to the Winter Sports Clinic community, also goes by his own self-proclaimed...
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Mar 31, 2023
Combat-wounded veteran finds peace in fly-fishing
The first time combat-wounded Army veteran John Thomas went fly-fishing, he found peace. “It was [like] no other feeling,” he said. “I...
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Mar 30, 2023
Happy trails
On a cold clear morning, sunlight glints off snowbanks as a line of snowmobiles zip through groves of aspens and towering firs. Pyramid...
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Mar 30, 2023
Winter Sports Clinic: National Guard Veteran, amputee wants to ‘live not just survive’
For nine years, doctors tried to repair Sandi Braunstein’s leg. She injured it twice in back-to-back incidents in 2007 while she was in...
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