Adaptive gear is opening more of Wyoming's outdoors
Melody Rupple's TrekAbility lends all-terrain gear for free. Joe Stone's Unified Dirt is adding joystick trail chairs for Grand Teton and checking trails so they can be made accessible.
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In Lander, Melody Rupple lends all-terrain adaptive gear through TrekAbility at no charge, so people with disabilities can get onto trails they could not use with an ordinary wheelchair. In Jackson, Joe Stone's Unified Dirt is adding joystick-driven trail chairs for Grand Teton and walking trails to see what would have to change to make them accessible.
The two efforts are separate. Together they are putting borrowed gear and a trail-by-trail list between a person and the country around them.
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