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Youth Consortium takes forty Beaver Island students skiing on February 7, 2003

Also Beaver Island students ski trip February 7 2003 · Youth Consortium downhill skiing

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TypeEvent
Date2003-02-07
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Date
2003-02-07
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Sports
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Beaver Island

Summary

On February 7, 2003, the Youth Consortium sponsored a downhill-skiing trip for forty Beaver Island Community School students. Thirty-seven had never skied downhill before; the trip included air travel, a group lesson, and lift tickets, and the report says there were no broken bones or serious dislocations.

Evidence limits

The feature is a newspaper account and does not identify the mainland resort or provide a complete participant roster.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, March 2003, “Students on the Slopes.”
    Reports forty students, adult chaperones, discounted air travel, lessons, lift tickets, beginner skiing and snowboarding, and no serious injuries despite one student needing brief rescue-team care. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-03_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the March 2003 report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Youth Consortium takes forty Beaver Island students skiing on February 7, 2003”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-youth-consortium-students-ski-trip-february-7-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 2003, “Students on the Slopes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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