Vertical Cure is an event developed to create awareness of Scleroderma as well as raise money for the rare tissue disease.  Each participant is challenged to collect pledges based on the vertical feet they ski during the event.  To calculate the descents, Suunto altimeter watches are provided to everyone participating. 

The event idea was created by Chris Corman and his close friend Phil Delurgio while riding up a ski lift in Whistler, Canada.  Both of their moms suffer from the rare Scleroderma disease.    Donations secured at Vertical Cure are contributed to the “Annette Crayton Memorial Research Fund” in honor of Chris’s mom who passed away in September 2007.

Vertical Cure has been held at Mammoth Mountain every April since 2002.