9th Annual Great Lakes Mono-Ski and Race Development Camp

Spirit Mountain Ski Area, Duluth, Minn.
Feb. 15-17, 2012 - 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Feb. 15, 12-7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 16, 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 17, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

The largest mono-ski camp in the Midwest for youth and adults with disabilities.

This amazing event brings together skiers and instructors from across the Midwest and from the top ski resorts out west to work with mono-skiers to advance their skiing ability. In addition, this year participants will have the opportunity to learn from Barrett Stein, the director of the US Paralympic Alpine Development Team.

Clinics topics include:

• Mono-ski equipment set-up evaluation
• Mono-ski equiment demos
• Teaching mono-skiing to mono-skiers
• Movement analysis
• Personal skiing development
• Race techniques and race camp offered Feb. 16-17 to all adaptive ski disciplines (option)
• Race day on Friday for all abilities
• Scholarship money available to veterans to cover the entire cost of the mono-camp. Please call for details.

Each day is followed by group movement analysis at Spirit Mountain, using video footage of skiers filmed that day.  There’s a Thursday night pizza party and social at The Edge Resort, and the mono camp closes with a Friday night banquet -sponsored by the PVA - at The Edge. The event is open to intermediate and advanced mono-skiers.

Cost: $60 per day (includes daily lift tickets, professional clinic instruction and video analysis, a ticket to the Thursday night pizza and water slide party and Friday night banquet at The Edge); $10 for each additional Friday night banquet ticket – must be reserved by Feb. 15.

Lodging: Edgewater Resort & Waterpark, 800-777-7925 (location of the Friday Banquet and Thursday night pizza and waterslide party). Make sure and request the Courage Center Duluth Group Discount on rooms at the Edge. Only a limited number of rooms are available. Please book at least a month early to receive the discount.

Duluth Visitor and Convention Bureau: 1-800-438-5884.

For more information, please contact Mark at Courage Center Duluth: 218-726-4834 or e-mail Mark.Hanna@couragecenter.org

Recruit: Bring a new camp participant and get entered to win a special drawing/prize at the banquet.

Sponsored by:

• The Miller Dwan Foundation
• MN Chapter of the Paralyzed Veterans of America
• Adaptive Adventures
• Spirit Mountain Ski Area
• The Edge - Edgewater Resort & Waterpark
• U.S. Paralympic Alpine Development Program
• Disabled Sports USA