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Darren Dorn was 18 years old and driving his pickup to his home just north of Minneapolis when he swerved to avoid hitting a deer.
That was the end of the first part of his life, and the beginning of the second.
Now 40 years old, Dorn, who works in sales for a lumber company, was at Game Fair last weekend in Ramsey, and will be there this weekend as well, Aug. 16-18.
In a wheelchair since the crash, Dorn is among a half-dozen or so leaders of the relatively new group Disabled Outdoorsmen Minnesota who are staffing a Game Fair booth to raise awareness about Minnesotans who love to be outdoors but who have mobility challenges.
“After my accident, I thought, ‘OK, this happened to me, but I want to do everything I used to do, especially hunting and fishing. I just have to figure out how to do it on four wheels,’” he said.
Nate Sjolin, 45, is another Disabled Outdoorsmen member who has been at Game Fair. Like Dorn, Sjolin, of Hanover, Minn., was in a crash in 2002.
“I woke up in the hospital to find out I was paralyzed from the waist down,” Sjolin said. “I was a big hunter and fisherman before my accident, and I knew I would continue to hunt and fish. I just had to figure out a way to do it.’’
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