Remember Sofi and Tracey? We have been following their journey of cycling throughout the past couple years. They began cycling with Outdoors for All at our Adaptive Cycling Center. When their journey first began, cycling was not something Sofi was interested in and it proved to be very challenging. Since then, she has become an independent cyclist and her and her Mom Tracey have been…
Outdoors for All programs would not be possible without the support of our amazing volunteers! With over 800 volunteers each year, it’s hard to pick out just one, but here is our new Volunteer Spotlight! Glenn Chapin (pictured left) volunteers with our Saturday alpine programs at Stevens Pass. Thank you Glenn for your dedication to our program and participants! “Glenn’s unwavering attitude and flexibility within…
At Outdoors for All’s Adaptive Cycling Center in Magnuson Park, individuals with disabilities can be fitted for and rent different types of adaptive cycles to try and ride around the park for an hour, a day, or rent a cycle for a week. Sofi and her mom, Tracey, stopped into the Adaptive Cycling Center almost every week during the summer of 2018 trying out different…
Through a partnership with Outdoors for All and Max Higbee Center, an organization providing community-based recreation opportunities for youth and adults with developmental disabilities in Bellingham, WA, thirty new participants were able to exercise their abilities on the waterways through adaptive kayaking. Many successes were had with new kayakers that day, especially with John Karuza. “We have been trying to get John on a boat,…
Outdoors for All is a community of volunteers, participants, staff and supporters. Sometimes these connections thrive after years and miles apart! On the first day of Saturday Night programs at Summit West, the room was relatively quiet after the group potluck dinner. It was the first Saturday Night program after a few years off and some of the volunteers were still reacquainting. But when participant…
Outdoors for All programs would not be possible without the support of our amazing volunteers! With over 700 volunteers each year, it’s hard to pick out just one, but here is our new Volunteer Spotlight! Gabe Spiel has been volunteering with Outdoors for All for over 5 years, mostly in our Stevens Pass adaptive ski program. “He has two young kids, all the while coming…
It never ceases to amaze me how our mission matters to so many people who are engaged in our programs. This winter I’ve had a chance to get out to many of our on-mountain programs at The Summit at Snoqualmie and at Stevens Pass. I still have more programs to visit (I know, tough duty!), but even so, what I’ve already seen and heard first-hand…
Outdoors for All Foundation’s Learn to Ride a Bike program is one of the new programs introduced in Fall 2015. It is also one of the more popular and successful programs with two sessions at two locations throughout the  this Spring. Outdoors for All’s volunteer cycle instructors share their knowledge and use helpful tools to aid participants of all ages into becoming successful riders of…
Soren Oquist (pictured in the red jacket) was born with a rare genetic disorder called Trisomy 8, so rare it only has 74 documented cases in the world. Due to this disorder he has struggled with low tone and developmental delays. “The expert geneticist at Children’s Hospital told us to hope for the best but to prepare for the worst , predicting that Soren might…
