While mountain biking at Snow Summit bike park in Big Bear California, Sam decided to go off of a hip jump that he had never seen before. He had too much speed and went over the handlebars mid-air and landed face first. This crash resulted in Sam shattering his T6 and T7 vertebrae.

“You cannot control everything that happens to you; you can only control the way you respond to what happens. In your response is your power”

*partial funding* towards Bowhead Reach MTB $2,000