Good Guys Finish First
Marc Mast, adaptive sports director of Sun Valley Ski and Snowboard School, assists Army E-4 Combat Medic Michael Hovgaard, 28, to buckle into his mono-ski on Dollar Mountain Monday. Mast, who doubles as president of the Wood River Ability Program, was instrumental in bringing eight disabled veterans to ski in Sun Valley Sunday, Jan. 15, through Friday, Jan. 20. San Jose, Calif., native Hovgaard, an amputee patient, was injured in an attack on an Army personnel carrier in Baghdad, Iraq. He described his ski experience as, "Loads of fun and I liked the mono-ski a lot." Photo by Willy Cook
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