Nisswa’s Mount Ski Gull Holds Annual Fundraiser to Support Programs, Scholarships

Mount Ski Gull, a non-profit alpine ski slope in Nisswa that serves the Brainerd Lakes area, held their annual fundraiser on Thursday.

Funds raised will go towards Mount Ski Gull’s events that occur throughout winter to make skiing and other snow sports available to children in the area. Those events include their ski school, where local students take field trips to the venue and get some experience on the slopes.

“What happens is, most of our funding goes right back into scholarships to get kids and families out here skiing for free,” explained Mata Agre, the ski resort’s general manager. “Most of it also goes back into our Learn to Ski program, where we get all local sixth graders out here on a field trip program where we charge $10 a student. And so in reality, we are we are covering all of the costs for that, and then the rest, that’s where all of our funding is for youth and families to get out here.”

Mount Ski Gull expects to open their winter season around Thanksgiving this year.