High Fives partners with promi-nent
outdoor athletes to make public
service announcement videos that
encourage “critical thinking about
playing safely.” Themes of prior PSAs
include avalanche awareness, a suc-cessful
‘helmets are cool’ campaign
and critical choices that enable greater
longevity in winter sports.
CR Johnson
Healing Center
Located in Truckee, Calif., the CR John-son
Healing Center is a 2,800-square-foot
facility with “all the modalities
that one would need for healing.”
Treatments include physical therapy,
acupuncture, massage and personal
training. The center provides a sense of
community and also “produces some
amazing recoveries” in a no questions
asked environment. High Fives Foun-dation
is planning on opening similar
healing centers across the country.
Keenan Weischedel
Keenan Weischedel is one of the High
Five Athletes. Weischedel grew up ski-ing
in Vermont and loved the outdoors.
In late 2016, while skiing with friends
at Mad River Glen in Vermont, he hit a
jump and double-ejected from his ski-bindings.
He landed on his head and
suffered spinal cord trauma at the C7
level. He is now quadriplegic; while re-taining
full use of his arms, he contin-ues
to struggle with fine motor skills.
“It took me some time to adapt to my
new situation,” said Weischedel. “But
from the beginning, being able to be
as independent as possible has always
been my goal. I was actually living on
my own one year after the accident.”
Weischedel says that High Fives pro-vided
him with a sense of community
and introduced him to sports he may
not have experienced otherwise. For
instance, High Fives took Weischedel
surfing on two occasions as part of
their High Fives adaptive surf camps.
While living in Reno for a season,
Weischedel played with the High Fives
rugby team. Weishcedel continues to
play wheelchair rugby and is a mem-ber
of the United States Quad Rugby
Association (USQRA). He competes
PHOTO COURTESY OF HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION
#HighFivesAthlete Ricci Kilgore at Squaw Alpine
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