A new program in Westchester County helps people with disabilities immerse themselves in the local parks like never before.
The sun was already high in the sky when CBS New York's Steve Overmyer arrived at Ridge Road Park. It's a park that breeds a special kind of resilience of spirit. The nonprofit created a program called Trails Without Limits. "Ever since I was a little kid, I loved exploring nature and being outdoors," Lange said."As I got old enough to start exploring on my own, I would just go out and try to catch any creatures I could.
"I was spending a lot of time, if I wasn't working, running trails at Rockefeller, skiing and snowboarding in Vermont," he said."I had friends that were very good mountain bikers, and they were always imploring me to come away on a biking trip and I finally took them up on it.... I was on a raised wooden part of the trail. I went over the edge over the handlebars and hit my head. It was strange.
"I'm not able to lift up rocks and find little critters like I normally would do. But I love trees, especially big old trees," he said."I just think about how long they've been here what they've seen and how many storms they've lived through... to me, it's fascinating." "I don't know where these trails are going. I'm exploring again. So, every turn I'm going someplace I haven't seen before," Lange said.
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