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Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra is successful because of many people and organizations.
Our Vision
We believe the freedom and exhilaration of outdoor challenges changes lives. No one should be left behind simply because of a disability!
Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra is a volunteer-based nonprofit dedicated to changing the lives of children and adults with disabilities and their families by:
DSES has adaptive equipment to fulfill everyone's winter and summer dreams: gliding down a snow-covered mountainside, cruising on a cycle or skimming over a placid lake.
Activities are customized to each individual; one-on-one or in a group. Our goal is for everyone to be active year round!
DSES makes the outdoors accessible and affordable!!
We Support A Tobacco Free Lifestyle
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Coming Events
Sierra Cycle Challenge
Sunday, July 27-Tuesday, July 29 - Save the Date! Start training and fundraising for the Sierra Cycle Challenge today. Help us help those with disabilities. Mammoth Lakes to Benton Hot Springs to Grant Lake and back to Mammoth. Amazing food, friends and views along the way! Call or email Christine for more information 760 934-0791 csouza@disabledsportseasternsierra.org - Only 20 spaces available this year ... sign up soon!
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3rd Annual Springtacular Huge Success!!
The 2008 Springtacular may be over, but we'll all cherish great memories from this amazing event. 70 star athletes spent four days on beautiful Mammoth Mountain and exceeded all of their goals. Cold temperatures and breezy days didn't stop these stars from taking run after run. A big thank you to Mammoth Mountain Ski Area for supporting this life-changing event for all of the students and more than 100 volunteers. We're already looking forward to next year's event-the 34th year of magic on the slopes with special athletes.
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2nd Annual Mammoth Mono Ski Madness
Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra hosted the 2nd Annual Mammoth Mono Ski Madness Camp on March 17-19, 2008. This two and a half day event brought skiers with disabilities who ski in sit-down mono skis to Mammoth. Two local skiers, Terry Smutney and Jeremy McGee, and a recent Wounded Warrior, Travis Strong, joined in the fun. Allan Grimsby traveled from Tahoe and Nahu Gebreegziabher came from Long Beach for some sliding. Bill Bowness, coach and Professional Ski Instructors of America National Tech Team Member, challenged them with new skills and adventures. Disabled Sports instructors taught and assisted as the skiers enjoyed the spring-like weather all over the mountain.
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Operation Mountain Freedom
Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra hosted their biggest Wounded Warrior Project yet, with 10 participants plus numerous family members. All of these service members have sustained severe injuries, and they are healing through the freedom and exhilaration of skiing and snowboarding. As usual, the whole town of Mammoth Lakes generously supported this program, as did DSUSA!
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Ariana Sandoval writes - "I have made new dreams and memories in Mammoth... YOU ALL ROCK!!!!"
Thank you for getting me up on the chair lift. All of the face plants made me feel so strong. I know that sounds strange but the more I fell the more I grew in confidence.
I did not die! I lived. I am not just living anymore. Once I came off the snow, I can say for certain that I am now truly ALIVE. I want to try so many things. I want to climb and ride again. I will drive again. I hope to see all of you every break I get. I look forward to all my winters, springs, falls and summers! I thank you all for your friendships. I feel that I have met people of greatness.
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Island Extravaganza a Huge Success!
The 2007 Island Extravaganza will go down in history as one of the best parties in Mammoth! Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra raised $57,000 in a fun evening of dancing, fantastic food and charitable giving.
More than 300 guests passed through tiki torches and entered into a fully transformed ski lodge complete with tropical flowers and hula skirted tables, overflowing with silent auction gifts and raffle giveaways. One lucky couple, Jim and Liz Cox, even won a trip to Hawaii!
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We Have Jobs!
We are hiring for seasonal and full time positions. Please check out our JOBS page. Let your friends know.
Wounded Warrior Scholarship Fund
Your donations can help bring men and women who have been severely injured in Iraq to Mammoth to learn how to adapt to their newly 'altered' bodies. Help them remember there is STILL FUN TO BE HAD!
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Bi-Skiing With Jenny by Wally Hofmann
Here's a quick story and some photos about an amazing young woman. This week I've been working at Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra with a 21-year old student named Jenny. We've helped her get back on the slopes after a 5-year absence.
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Dennis Hampton Scholarship Fund
Dennis Hampton was a long time resident of Mammoth Lakes. He arrived in the 1970's for a fun ski vacation and loved Mammoth and winter sports so much he never left. Dennis found his home among the other wonderful Mammoth locals and loved skiing, kayaking, hiking and mountain biking. He was happiest when he was talking with his friends and listening to their stories.
In memory of Dennis, his family and friends are establishing a scholarship fund to sponsor children with disabilities so they can participate in outdoor sports here in the Eastern Sierra. Disabled Sports Eastern Sierra, a program that Dennis loved and supported, teaches children of all ages and all disabilities.
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