DREAM Adaptive Recreation’s Snow Ball

DREAM Adaptive Recreation has been committed to making outdoor recreation accessible by providing year-round adaptive sports since 1985. Join us, in person again, for the Snow Ball fundraiser with proceeds supporting our inclusive adaptive programs.

The gala-style event will take place on Friday, March 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Featured is a filet mignon, halibut, no-host bar, silent and live auctions, music by the Mike Murray Duo, keynote speaker Anna Soens, auctioneer Bobby Roshon and Emcee Janice Lake. Rooms are available for reservation through Feb. 4 and can be booked directly at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Please mention you’re with DREAM Adaptive Recreation. Snow Ball tickets are $100 per person, $180 per couple, $700 for a table of eight and $850 for a table of ten.

Your support at the gala will help empower individuals of all ages and military veterans with cognitive, sensory and physical disabilities through outdoor recreation. Current programs include alpine skiing and snowboarding lessons at Whitefish Mountain Resort, Nordic skiing in partnership with Glacier Nordic Club, mountain biking, paddle boarding, kayaking and motorized watersports days full of waterskiing, wakeboarding, wake surfing and more.

Keynote speaker Anna Soens is an avid mountaineer, skier and mountain biker who, in December of 2015, was left paralyzed after falling 35 feet in a climbing accident. In 2018, she defied all odds after being told she would never walk again when she summitted Oregon’s Mt. Hood with her father and friends as the first woman with paraplegia. The next year, she summited Mt. Baker, which included 8,000 feet of sit-skiing for her descent.

Soens’ accomplishments have been recognized countless times as a trailblazer from Challenged Athletes Foundation, Mount Baker Experience Magazine and other publications and radio shows. She was featured in two films: “Adapted,” (not yet released) and “The Approach,” a film highlighting and uplifting people of color, women and adaptive skiers. She is affiliated with Oregon Adaptive Sports, a similar organization to DREAM Adaptive based in Oregon.

Consistently demonstrating courage, commitment, leadership, and that dreaming big proves to be instrumental in adaptive sports, Soens is a person to meet.

To learn more or purchase tickets, visit DreamAdaptive.org/events.