Local organization giving people with disabilities chance to hit the slopes [Video]

The Regina Ski Club is ensuring everyone has a chance to hit the slopes this winter.

“We offer various services that include sit skis or blind skiing assist guiding, cognitive items,” said guide Brent Waldo. “It’s for people that don’t normally get a chance to get outside and enjoy an activity like this.”

The Alpine Adapted Ski program has more than a dozen athletes with various disabilities. From spinal injuries to visual impairments or even amputations.

Skyle Derin lives with cerebral palsy.

In her daily life, she requires a wheelchair to be mobile. But because of a sit ski, she has been skiing for 13 years.

“It gives me so much freedom instead of just sitting in a wheelchair all the time,” Derin told CTV News.

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With the assistance of her guide, Joel Makan, she’s able to use a chairlift and slide …