Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center-Expanding Potential For People Of All Abilities

Aimee Sharp
Author | Shield HealthCare
10/21/14  3:28 AM PST
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By Robert Leja

Extraordinary things happen at the Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center (BOEC). A man with quadriplegia finds the courage and patience to take on the high ropes course, a woman who is blind feels the thrill of carving down some fresh powder, a group of teenage boys learn what it means to work hard as they set fence ties on a desert farm in Utah – these are mere glimpses of what happens at the BOEC.

For more than 35 years, the BOEC has been changing lives, or more accurately, showing people that they have the power within themselves to change their own lives.

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