Ski + Winter Sports with Diabetes
Cold Insulin, Dead Batteries, and a Pump Under Three Jackets
For families and couples on ski and winter sports trips, where gloves, layers and a chairlift make every check harder.
Inside Ski + Winter Sports with Diabetes
- The full guide, read online as a book, always current as new issues land
- Six short videos to share before or during the trip, added after launch. Everyone who bought earlier gets each one, and the price goes to $50 once all six are in.
- An overview deck that walks the whole trip in one sitting, for the planning talk at the kitchen table.
- One-page team cards for how your travelers talk and work together: a before-we-leave huddle card, a who-does-what card, a card for when something goes wrong, and one card per issue.
- Printable checklists: packing, an emergency protocol, and a partner discussion guide.
- A 6x9 paperback for the bag, with the team cards, checklists and emergency protocol each on its own page. It comes after the online guide.
A ski trip starts in the parking lot with insulin you have to keep from freezing, and batteries and phones that quit on the lift. You reach a pump under three jackets, keep a sensor on through sweat and freeze, and handle altitude, cold and six hours of exertion in the same day.
Gloves, layers and a chairlift make checking hard, so the person riding with you becomes part of the system. The team cards cover who keeps the backup, who checks at the lift line, and when the group heads in.
Every issue in this guide
The guide, online as a book or a printable PDF, in 8 issues:
- 1. The Trip That Starts in the Parking Lot
- 2. Frozen Insulin Is Not Cold Insulin
- 3. Batteries, Screens, and the Phone That Died on the Lift
- 4. Reaching a Pump Under Three Jackets
- 5. Sweat, Freeze, and Whether the Sensor Survives the Week
- 6. Altitude, Cold and Six Hours of Exertion, All at Once
- 7. The Run You Do Not Finish
- 8. The Debrief in the Car, and the Rest of Winter
The guide follows one ski trip that goes well, from the parking lot through the run you do not finish, to the debrief in the car and the rest of winter.
How it will work
- Sign in free and you'll hear the day it lands.
- On launch day, add it to your cart in the BTD Store and check out for $25.
- Open your access link and read it with everyone traveling, before you go.
BTD Vacation Time: Online Coaching built around your trip
Three months of online sessions with your trip as the syllabus: a planning session with everyone who is traveling, written trip notes your family can take along, a check-in while you are away, and a debrief once you are home. It starts at $8,000, and availability is extremely limited. Family-to-family coaching, never medical advice.
If you're heading to the mountains this winter and want help fitting it to your family, that's what BTD Vacation Time is for.
If your family wants Trapper on the trip itself, that is Diabetes Concierge: four days is $46,000 plus travel, inside the Diabetes Concierge range of $28,000 to $72,000 plus travel.
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