With more than thirty years of continuous service, MASSANUTTEN – Adaptive Snow Sports (MASS) offers a unique and integrative approach to instruction. We take great pride as the South’s first full-service adaptive snow sports program. An important therapeutic experience, thousands individuals of all ages have successfully received specialized adaptive snow sports instruction and guide services at our resort.

Starting with the basics, our Adaptive Snow Sports Mastery System® follows a progression, allowing you to achieve your most advanced level of independence as quickly as possible. Course content is organized so each successive instructional session picks up where the last one ended with no overlap or gaps. Throughout your experience, you will develop a variety of new skills designed to compliment many therapy goals. Our programs for school aged children can be designed to compliment many special education goals.

Our instructors are trained to follow the PSIA Adaptive Teaching Model ©. Moreover, instructors also make use of other valuable progressions and instructional adaptations as defined by Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA), Hal O’Leary’s internationally recognized Winterpark Handicapped Skiing Program, and PSIA’s Child Centered Skiing – the American Teaching System (ATS) © for Children.

Simply put, our approach to teaching adaptive alpine skiing, snowboarding and other adaptive snow sports is one which has a proven history of success!