LUDLOW, Vt. (WCAX) – Sliding down the slopes on a chilly day, all in support of a good cause.
Sisters and two Okemo Mountain School students, Cami and Chloe Blount, started raising money back in 2017, after one of their elementary school teachers passed away from cancer.
They then expanded the fundraiser after Chloe was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Skiers and riders race down a course near the mountain’s base lodge, and all proceeds from the race – as well as a silent auction afterwards – goes to support cancer and diabetes research.
The pair say they’ve raised about fifteen thousand dollars this year, much of that thanks to the local Ludlow community.
“We figured since we were a ski family we could do something with skiing, and we moved up here a few years before and so we decided we we’re going to have a race on the little NASTAR hill up there,” Chloe Blount a Okemo Mountain School Freshmen said.
“Like as much money as we can build like hopefully, it’s a horrible disease, like both of them. Just hope it will eventually work out that she doesn’t have to live with the disease and many other don’t have to live with the disease either,” Cami Blount, Okemo Mountain School Junior said.
The sisters say they’ve raised over one hundred thousand dollars in the past eight years to benefit cancer and diabetes research.
