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BUILDING A BETTER MONOSKI

Source: Cam Shaw-Doran designs and builds custom monoskis that ease the burden on disabled skiers.

Cam Shaw-Doran’s job combines a skier’s passion, a tinkerer’s joy, and a philanthropic mission that strikes an intimately personal chord. As the director of development for the Turtle Ridge Foundation—a nonprofit started by his childhood pal, Bode Miller—Shaw-Doran spends his days building custom monoskis and driving around the country to give them away to adaptive programs and individual skiers.

“I do this because I can, and I feel like if I can, I should,” says Shaw-Doran.

There is joy, of course, in the giving, but Shaw-Doran knows what it’s like to be on the receiving

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