"Wounded Warriors" Hit the Slopes for Weekend Tradition
Jan 19, 2007 09:18 PM

After countless hours in hospitals and rehab, a group of amputees and injured soldiers took to the slopes Friday.

Windham Mountain is hosting the "Wounded Warriors Weekend," a time when soldiers and Marines injured in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan can ski, or learn to ski, as part of their rehabilitation.

Volunteers from the Adaptive Sports Foundation on Windham served as guides. For many, the weekend has become a tradition, or at least the start of one.

"I picked it up in about 45-minutes, and I've already been down once and looking to go back again," says Steve Robinson, a "Wounded Warrior" from San Antonio, Texas.

Limb-loss has happened twice as often in Iraq as in any conflict of the past century, except for Vietnam.

Those on the slopes Friday say it is a chance to forget most of their worries, except for getting down the mountain

Ellie