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About Challenge Aspen

Mission

Challenge Aspen is dedicated to impacting lives by presenting meaningful recreational, cultural and competitive experiences to individuals faced with cognitive or physical challenges.

The aim of Challenge Aspen is to carefully orchestrate life changing adventures, giving participants the courage to learn something new, trust their own abilities and carry that ideal forward, reaching toward goals in other areas of their lives.

History

Since 1995, Challenge Aspen has continued to listen to participants and has responded in kind with services and year-round offerings, providing access for all to a wide variety of seasonal sports, recreational and cultural activities for adults and children. Thanks to Challenge Aspen and an intensely dedicated volunteer staff and board of directors, those with physical and mental challenges now have access to recreational sports like downhill and cross-country skiing, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, swimming, gymnastics, hiking and fishing.

Through the years, seasonal camps have become a large outreach of Challenge Aspen, and the fun includes a mono-ski camp and a rock climbing camp for paraplegics and amputees, a ski festival for the visually impaired, and children’s art and music camps in the summertime. Summer camps are crafted with kids specifically in mind, to invite a sense of creative success and achievement while creating memories with friends who have similar life challenges. Based in Snowmass Village with access to the area’s four ski mountains, Challenge Aspen currently serves more than 400 participants each year, with over 2,100 participant days. Challenge Aspen has built a committed full-time staff of eight, a stellar volunteer force of more than 100 and an esteemed volunteer board of directors. Houston Cowan and Amanda Boxtel, believed from the beginning that access, community and participation were the keys to healing and establishing rewarding lives for those with disabilities. Challenge Aspen has carried those ideals forward and continues to connect, encourage and inspire those with physical and mental disabilities and those who are privileged enough to work with them. Challenge Aspen is helping to break through barriers, helping individuals gain the self-esteem and confidence needed to lead fulfilling, productive lives.

How Can You Help?

Alpine Ace Hardware donates 75 cents

from the sale of each 3 ounce bag of Jelly Belly candy

directly to Challenge Aspen each month. In June, we donated $103.50 through your generous donations.

So far we have donated $2,029.50 to Challenge Aspen.

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