Oh, for the love of trails

Exert from article originally posted on Spinal Cord Ontario’s Voice’s Blog, you can find it here: Brie Birdsell: Getting Outdoors Again 

Brie Birdsell loves to explore the outdoors and adaptive mountain biking provides her the opportunity to do just that. Injured while hiking, Brie uses a wheelchair in everyday life and a walker or forearm crutches when ambulating. She has found it difficult to explore the outdoors the way that she would like to.

“It’s challenging, because I’m an outdoor person and accessibility to outdoor spaces is not always the greatest, especially in a small town, where I live,” she shares.

“A dream would be to fund raise and have a fleet of adaptive mountain bikes that people can take with them out on trails and try them for a weekend,” she shares.

 “A lot of us with SCIs love to do adventurous things outdoors and adaptive mountain biking is a sure way to get our sense of adventure back. Also, the camaraderie within the adaptive [outdoor sports] community is simply phenomenal.”

Watch a video about the adaptive mountain bike camp put on by Green Mountain Adaptive Sports here.