Vail Resorts offers a discount on Epic Passes for adaptive athletes considering the high cost of equipment. Ikon Passes, however, are full price.
Adaptive athletes like Mark Urich — who had his right leg amputated at the age of two — want to convince Alterra to change that.
"A basic frame is like $5,000," Urich says."The shock is around $2,000. The seat bucket is $1,000, but you want it custom-modeled like a pair of [ski] boots. Outriggers cost $750." But the costs can go higher depending on the impairment. "It's just a sport that you can do as a disabled person better than an able-bodied person," he says."As a disabled person, to see an able-bodied person not be able to do something that you can do is a pretty exhilarating feeling.
"Vail Resorts qualifies a permanent disability as a permanent physical, mental or sensory impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, such as caring for oneself, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning or working," Alvarez says.
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