We are looking for volunteer Ski Guides to help with our program. If you would like to help us out and are a good intermediate skier please contact us.

Our qualified ski instructors will provide full training on Wednesday evenings in the GTA.

The Toronto Ski Hawks welcome the visually impaired and blind to come and join us. If you have never been skiing we will teach you; if you have skied we will guide you.

We are a non profit organization based in the Greater Toronto area of Ontario, Canada. We go skiing twice a week, every week in the winter months. On Wednesday evenings we offer skier and guide instruction. Saturdays we head off to ski-country for a full day of skiing at some of Ontario's finest private/semi private ski clubs.

If you would like to volunteer as a guide, and are a good intermediate skier, the Hawks Ski School will give you the required training.

A vital and necessary ingredient is the dedicated and knowledgeable volunteer ski school. They provide safe ski instruction and guiding by qualified ski instructors and ski guides to the club. The ski school offers instructional training one evening per week and one full day’s skiing on Saturdays.

Over the years, a unique system of skiing for the visually impaired has been developed by Ron and Barbara Lusher, the founding ski school directors. Skiers can be taught to ski down the most difficult ski slopes safely. A skier’s well trained instructor or guide follows the skier closely, calling out simple directions. Blind and visually impaired skiers always ski one-on-one, one student with one instructor/guide.

It was great to get out skiing again after not being able to do much of it the last several years as my vision deteriorated. Last night was the first time I skiied in two years, so I was a bit rusty. I also had my doubts that I could actually ski withought seeing much of where I was going and what was around me, depending on taking instructions from a sighted guide through the radio system. It was really amazing to discover that I CAN ski while following directions from a sighted guide. It was really fun and I am looking forward to getting out again next Wednesday.

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