Brian’s Full Ride
An adaptive scholarship fund in memory of Brian Stevens.
Help an adaptive athlete shred like Brian!
Brian’s Full Ride is a scholarship endowment fund honoring the life and snowboarding passion of Brian Stevens. Brian’s sister Liz, her family and Brian’s friends strive to keep Brian’s memory alive by sharing his love of snowboarding, especially at Jackson Hole through a legacy scholarship. The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole (CFJH) manages and distributes funding annually to Teton Adaptive to cover the entire cost of skiing for an athlete with a disability who faces extra challenges. Recipients of Brian’s Full Ride receive 12 lessons including expert adaptive instructor, lift tickets and special equipment all ski season. The endowment model of Brian’s Full Ride ensures that every year the scholarship will be awarded anew.
About Brian Stevens
Brian Stevens was a generous, compassionate, loyal, caring, adventurous and fun-loving man who endeared himself to those who knew him. He gave selflessly to help people he loved without expecting or wanting anything in return, and his friends, relatives and colleagues all knew him as someone they could rely on. He loved children and they loved him. Although he never had children of his own, he earned the nickname of the Fun Uncle. Brian was also an avid snowboarder. Hailing from New Jersey, Brian took up snowboarding as a way to escape the stress of work, and as a way to connect with friends, new and old. He lived for his trips to ride out West, in both Utah and Wyoming. These trips were time for him to connect with his friends, the natural world and himself.
A particular story from a friend of Brian’s stands out: On their trips to Jackson Hole, the two friends would hike to different runs throughout the resort on a mission for the best snow. His friend recalls that Brian was always the last in the line of hikers, huffing and puffing, his sweat freezing into snow in his beard. It became a joke that hikes would be rated on a Tired Brian scale– at JHMR, the Headwall was ⅗ on the T.B. scale, the Crags, a 4, and the hike out of Granite (a beast, especially for a snowboarder) was a 5.
When Brian was sick, he talked and reminisced about these trips as his friends visited him in the hospital. He spoke of future plans and his dream snowboarding destinations, and even purchased a new snowboard from his hospital bed. Towards the end of his life, Brian requested that his final resting place be here in Wyoming, so his family traveled to the Wedding Tree in Kelly, WY, and carried out that wish. Many of his family and friends have traveled to the same spot, both to feel close to Brian, and to witness the beauty of the Tetons. Jackson Hole holds a special place in the hearts of all who loved Brian.
“I know he's on some beautiful mountain in the back country now and
it's all covered with the best kind of fresh powder snow.”
Brian’s Full Ride
How it Works
Click here to access the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole (CFJH) donation page.
Make a tax-deductible donation there online.
Or, donate by mail to: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, POB 574, Jackson WY 83001
Payee name: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole (with ‘Brian’s Full Ride’ in the memo line) Tax ID: 83-0308856
CFJH will send you a tax receipt/thank you letter.
Thank you to the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole for managing this fund
