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Please see our copyright and disclaimer notice page. As we rode the lift servicing green trails and a few intermediate runs, a skier with one leg came zipping down below us, much to the amazement of everyone on the lift. Farther up we saw a four-track skier with outriggers, tentatively maneuvering down an intermediate trail. What he couldn't see was that the adaptive skier wore full leg braces and couldn't even stand independently without canes. Sometimes the lack of knowledge about adaptive skiers' disabilities leads one to admire their courage or pity them.