A charity in Bermuda is covering the entire cost of a February trip to Vermont for someone who has never stood in snow.
The Bermuda Ski and Snowboard Association announced its Snow Angel bursary Tuesday, as reported by The Royal Gazette. The recipient joins the island’s snow-sports community at Jay Peak from Feb. 7 to 12. The award is means-tested, and it is built for someone who has never skied or snowboarded — first snowfall, first chairlift, first run.
The bursary covers:
- round-trip travel and airport transfers
- lodging
- lift passes
- ski or snowboard equipment
- group lessons
- winter clothing
- reasonable food and drink
The eligibility rules, in plain terms:
- You have to be Bermudian or hold a Bermuda permanent resident certificate.
- You have to be 21 by the date of the trip. Applicants 18 to 20 will be looked at individually.
- You need a valid passport and have to be able to enter the United States.
- You have to be free for the whole six days.
- You have to actually participate — lessons, group activities — and afterward talk about how it went, so the next applicant knows what they’d be signing up for.
The association grew out of the Bermuda Snow Society, formed in 2023 to connect people on the island around skiing and mountain life. It registered as a charity this past February.
Applications and details are at bermudasnow.com. Questions go to BermudaSnowSociety@gmail.com.
Jay Peak has spent the past two winters as the national case study in who stops coming to Vermont. Car crossings from Canada into the state fell 27% in 2025, according to state figures cited by CNN in February. Resort president Steve Wright, whose mountain sits nine miles from the Quebec line and normally draws more than half its business from across it, told Bloomberg in January that Canadian season-pass renewals had come in down 35%. The season finished as the best in the resort’s history anyway, Wright told WCAX in May, on eastern skiers who stayed east and went where the snow was. February brings one more visitor, from 1,300 miles the other direction.