On what should have been a fun ski day with friends, Alex Goldmeier was found unconscious on the side of a mountain in New York. He crashed, hit multiple trees, and when patrol found him, he was life-flighted to Albany Medical Center where his family was notified he had sustained injuries to his thoracic spine, heart vessel, kidney, right clavicle, right wrist, ribs, right lung, facial fractures along with suffering a traumatic brain injury. Alex had 2 surgeries in Albany, a stent put in his heart and a lumbar stabilization for a T-4, T-5 fracture and remained there 2 weeks.