Up at The Basin, he’s simply known as “T.” The lifties helped him learn to ride chairlifts at ten weeks old. Two weeks later, he was stepped on by a size 11 ski boot, an entanglement that earned him six weeks in a cast. Unfazed, he began hanging with skiers at the top of the …
Local Hero
Summit County physician Ken Adnan had already paddled down many rivers prior to his first volunteer stint with the non-profit First Descents. His first trip with the group may, however, have taught him more about the value of taking risks in the wild than any rapid he’s ever run. First Descents offers free outdoor experiences …
Benevolence
Darfur, South Sudan. Nepal during the Maoist insurgency. Haiti after 2010’s catastrophic earthquake; Honduras after 1998’s Hurricane Mitch. The passport stamps which Breckenridge physician Craig Perrinjaquet, MD, has collected over two decades of volunteer physician stints across the globe read like a shorthand code for human tragedy. Asked to explain his penchant for small-scale, medical …
Rose’s Journey
One woman’s incredible story inspires two Breck locals to create a charity that assists international nonprofits. In the summer of 2004, a young Ugandan woman by the name of Rose Nanyonga Clarke stood up in front of a crowd at Breckenridge Christian Ministries and recounted her journey from a childhood spent practicing witchcraft in a …
Honduras
ReSurge International (formerly Interplast) provides free reconstructive surgeries for individuals suffering from burns or congenital deformities in underserved communities around the world. areas. Their work restores the dreams and health of thousands of children and adults each year. allowing them to attend school, provide for their families and contribute to society.
The Up and Comer
“It took me a season to work through questions like ‘Wait, what am I supposed to do? You mean you’re supposed to do a transition fast?! You really expect me to ski down a double black diamond on these toothpicks? Hold the phone.’” Those are the words that Nikki LaRochelle, rising SkiMo star, uses to …
Framing a Passion
“Shoot Cameras, Not Guns,” joins a long line of Breck-based global philanthropies. Breck locals’ philanthropic instincts tend to have a global scope—there’s Doug Nendel, a former volunteer firefighter, who created the Cambodian Relief Fund to support firefighters in Cambodia who were in desperate need of supplies to do their jobs. And Shannon Galpin, who founded …
Story Swap, Aspen Writer’s Foundation
The Fall 2012 Aspen Writer’s Story Swap project paired writers and photographers in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley. Five writers interviewed five photographers about the defining moments of their lives, then crafted the responses into creative writing. The photographers whose lives they wrote about were then tasked with creating photographs that illuminated the stories crafted by …
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