Greg Whittaker has an idea to get more West Seattle kids involved in winter sports. He calls it the West Seattle Snow Sports Council. Whittaker is the owner of Mountain to Sound Outfitters at 3602 SW Alaska Street and he is modeling his idea after one he grew up with in Kirkland. It will be a 5013c non profit organization, "We're looking for the community to come out and help. We'll help facilitate it but we want the community to run it," Whittaker said, "the idea is to get kids, or youth, middle school to high school of West Seattle up to the mountains to experience the Northwest Cascades and go skiing and snowboarding or nordic skiing if they'd like to."

His company has relationships with insurance companies, and other businesses that might provide some assistance but he is looking for enthusiastic participants to help in all aspects. The group will need chaperone's, people to serve on the steering committee, and others to be part of leadership staff.

His plan is to launch the group this year in April to get people involved and then begin a program next winter, likely in January probably lasting six weeks, "We'd go up on an evening, maybe a Thursday night, after school or on a Saturday or Sunday." One of the challenges he sees is getting transportation in place, building that into the cost for the effort.

To kick off the program the company is staging a very special Sidewalk Sale March 26th through 28th with the proceeds going to the West Seattle Snow Sports Council. The sale will feature ski and snowboard gear at up to 50% off as the company changes it's inventory over to paddle sports.

To learn more about the WSSSC you can contact them through info@m2soutfitters.com or through the link on their Facebook page above.