Green Mountain Adaptive Sports

11/22/2025

Happy birthday Tom! Mother Nature sure delivered for your big day, and we wish you all the best for the upcoming ski season! Tom Hall is Lead Adaptive ski instructor at Stowe, and a very important person in the world of adaptive sports, especially skiing. Tom has been teaching at Stowe for nine years and has been a GMAS board member for eight years. We ask that you support GMAS and Tom by making a donation to our CommUNITY Challenge fundraiser if you can. Our instructors are crucial to how successful our adaptive programs are, and we are dedicated to funding annual instructor trainings so that we can maintain quality across the board. Read more about Tom in our new blog - it’s so fun, and thanks for helping support our mission!

https://greenmtnadaptive.org/hall-wants-to-see-stowe-become-the-vail-of-the-east-for-adaptive-skiing/

11/18/2025

This early snow’s got us so excited for the Stowe Monoski Camp! We have 2 spots left open before we close registration, act asap if you want to come ski with us on Jan 11. Super stoked to welcome and as our partners again this year, as well as , , , as our collaborators. More information in the bio.

11/16/2025

And that’s a wrap! Our first ever Adaptive Skateboard collaboration with Talent Skatepark. 5 athletes, 5 sessions, and 10+ skoaches/volunteers. So much progress in just a few weeks. Aidan could be heard repeating: “I can do hard things.” Aven learned that safe falling means some big learning is going on. Jordyn is learning to use her great navigating skills to move safely around others. Alex is getting comfortable on ramps. And another friend is teaching all the adults how to safely adapt skateboarding rigs to care for their body while a wide smile tells everyone how much they love the movement. All agreed that it was a very successful first go. Next up: building a rolling frame to give access to our athletes who need more bodily support. Stay tuned for details about our next session, likely to launch in January!

11/13/2025

The GMAS CommUNITY Challenge Fundraiser is ON, and we hope that you will be able to participate this year! There are all kinds of ways to get involved and contribute to our goal of raising $20,000 by the end of the year. Create a peer-to-peer campaign, make a DONATION, buy ONLINE raffle tickets, eat out and shop on Giving Tuesday, come to Sushi Yoshi on Dec 2 for the GMAS Party, join us at Stowe Cider for the Winter Solstice Party... The possibilities are ENDLESS! Thanks for contributing to your little adaptive sports program. When inclusion happens, community grows. Be a game changer, contribute to this meaningful campaign and change the life of a neighbor by providing access to sports and recreation. All the details and links in our newsletter.https://conta.cc/4hWfmST

11/10/2025

Our ski programs don’t start until the New Year, but it looks like Tristan, one of the Special Olympics athletes that GMAS sponsors out of Smugglers' Notch Resort is more than ready for the mountain to open! We love your Halloween costume Tristan, and we are rooting for you to add even more medals around your neck this year! Check out our webpage for more information about our programs and upcoming events. Let it snow!!

11/08/2025

Congratulations Kelly! You deserve this award for all the great work you do for our community, and for being such as awesome human too!! Proud to count you as one of our valued partners!

10/24/2025

We were so close to reaching our goal this year at the Heady Trotter at the Alchemist, and that’s something to CELEBRATE! We raised $18,177 out of our $20K goal, and even though we just missed the full match, your contributions added up to something truly POWERFUL. The outpouring of generosity from our community shows just how much we can accomplish together. Thank you for standing with us and helping drive this important work forward. It’s never too late to add a little donation if you can… We wish to thank all of the volunteers, The Alchemist, Heady Trotter Four Miler, Vermont Farmstead Cheese Co. who donated 100% of the proceeds from the sale of grilled cheese sandwiches, everyone who participated, cheered, and donated, and of course, our friends at The Vermont Community Foundation. We are grateful and happy, and can’t wait to be part of this amazing event again next year!

10/20/2025

Our first adaptive skateboard session at Talent Skatepark, Inc. in Burlington, VT was a huge success - LOTS of smiles and high fives all around! This was the first of five Sunday lessons in this block, and all athletes are very excited to come back next week! Many thanks to the skoaches who worked with the kids, it all went so smoothly…everyone was a natural! Read more about this program on our webpage, we are also accepting applications for future sessions.
https://greenmtnadaptive.org/our-programs/skateboard/

10/19/2025

Possibly one of our favorite event ever - the Heady Trotter race! We are beyond grateful to everyone who participated and donated to support GMAS again this year! What a day, so much positive energy, kindness, commUNITY! Thanks to everyone, the Alchemist Brewery, the race organizers, sponsors, VOLUNTEERS! It will be a couple of days until we tabulate all the donations, fingers crossed we unlocked the match from the Vermont Community Foundation! So thankful! And of course, it’s not too late to make a donation, link: https://runsignup.com/Race/Donate/VT/Stowe/HeadyTrotter4Miler

10/15/2025

WIN THIS FIRE PIT! Purchase raffle tickets ONLINE today to win this one of a kind fire pit which will be raffled off at the Heady Trotter at the Alchemist on Sunday, Oct 19 in Stowe, VT. Your contribution will be added up to the donations which we hope will allow unlock a matching grant generously offered by the Vermont Community Foundation. There is no need to be present to win this fire pit, BUT you will have to pick it up in Stowe. This item does not ship! Thanks for the support, and best of luck at winning this amazing prize.

Purchase raffle tickets ONLINE to win a custom made Heady Trotter Firepit. The winner will be announced after the race, or contacted by email, or text.

10/14/2025

The Heady Trotter at the Alchemist is this Sunday, Oct 19 and we need your help to unlock a $20,000 matching grant from The Vermont Community Foundation! The funds raised at last year’s event helped us expand our Adaptive Ski and Ride program which will be offered at Smugglers’ Notch AND Stowe this winter! We have big plans for 2026 and hope to once again get enough financial support from our community to get this important donor match. Help us provide Vermonters living with disabilities with greater access to a variety of sports in our community. If you can, please donate for this amazing campaign and help us get the match from the generous donors at VCF!

The GMAS Ski and Ride Program is now offered at both Stowe Mountain Resort and Smugglers’ Notch Resort, thanks to a matching grant from VCF.