1) Episode Summary
 

In this episode of The Blind Chick, Penn and Moses Street welcome Elizabeth Long, an outdoor adventurer from Ridgway, Colorado, whose story moves through hearing loss, vision loss, spinal injury, adaptive sports, and the long process of learning how to stop hiding and start living fully.
 

Elizabeth shares how growing up around unspoken family attitudes toward disability shaped her early silence around hearing loss, and how learning ASL later became a doorway into community, confidence, and identity. She talks about moving from Michigan to southwest Colorado, falling in love with the mountains, rock climbing, ice climbing, skiing, and eventually discovering adaptive sports.
 

The conversation becomes especially powerful as Elizabeth describes how adaptive skiing, including mono-skiing, helped her rediscover freedom without pretending her body had no limits. Penn connects deeply with Elizabeth’s story, especially around the grief of possibly giving up skiing and the possibility of finding a new way forward.
 

At its heart, this episode is about not closing the door on your life when disability changes the rules. Elizabeth’s message is clear: you may have to do things differently, but differently does not mean lesser. 

2) Contact Info 

Guest: Elizabeth Long
Instagram: @sanjuanmtnchick
Spelled: S-A-N-J-U-A-N-M-T-N-C-H-I-C-K
 

Aftersight
Website: Aftersight.org
Phone: (720) 712-8856
Email: [email protected] 

Producer: Jonathan Price
Podcast and Program Producer, Aftersight 

3) Show Credits 

Show: The Blind Chick
Hosts: Penn Street and Moses Street
Guest: Elizabeth Long
Producer: Jonathan Price
Presented by: Aftersight