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  ach expedition will focus on multiple educational components which will then be broadcast back to youth and adults around the world from specific locations. Sean will also engage in pre and post expedition speaking engagements for various foundations, hospitals, schools, and corporations. PowderLines.Com will serve as the central hub for various video broadcasts, archives, blogging, live satellite phone broadcasts, and expedition news.

  n 2004, Sean Busby was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that can quickly be fatal without proper and intensive management. Commonly confused with type 2 diabetes, type 1 diabetes is strictly an autoimmune disease that is not caused by lifestyle choices or obesity.
Most of the Powder Lines expeditions will take Sean and his team into vast wilderness environments, where they may be days away from the nearest help or rescue. It is vital that Sean remains in top control of managing his condition in order to keep both himself and his team safe. Through years of intensive and successful management, Sean is ready for such challenges.
As a current role model in the diabetic community, for both type 1s and type 2s, Sean hopes to inspire diabetics around the world by showing them that diabetes doesn’t need to slow you down or restrict you from accomplishing your goals – even if that is from the end of the earth – Antarctica!

  iding On Insulin is a non profit organization founded with the mission to provide international ski and snowboarding camps for kids with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with an emphasis on managing blood sugars when altitude, climate and humidity all play a role.

  n 2004, the first Riding On Insulin camp took place in Tahoe, California months after Sean’s diagnosis in association with the Diabetic Youth Foundation – Bearskin Meadows. Since its inception, Riding on Insulin has grown nationally and internationally serving children and teens.