steve Jack Trottier, Boston-area resident, to receive $10,000 grant from High Fives Foundation Trottier suffered a snowboarding related injury fracturing his C6 vertebrae resulting in paralysis. In January 2013 Jack Trottier, star quarterback for Tyngsborough High School outside of Boston, was snowboarding with some friends in the backyard of his Massachusetts home. Jack and crew built a jump, … Read more
Remarkable virtual exploration technology… Go to Spine Nevada, skiing, dining, to the CRJ Healing Center & more all in the comfort of your own home! XplorIt allows the user to experience everything there is to see and do within hospitality, educational, event or health care setting. The user gets to choose their own destination and view their … Read more
Bring your adventures to life! XplorIt is an amazing interactive virtual exploration technology…go to the CR Johnson Healing Center skiing, shopping, dining & more all in the comfort of your own home! Their mission is to develop the most immersive and comprehensive multimedia experiences in the world. The user can choose their own destination and … Read more
Check out this weeks featured partner spotlight, Hula Networks’ CEO in the 2014 CIOMA Destruction Derby Hula Networks has been helping service providers, carriers, data centers, and large enterprise clients increase company profits, decrease expenses, and mitigate risk since 2001. They work hard to increase their client’s productivity and revenues by addressing the gaps in … Read more
Vermont’s Long Trail Brewing Company has teamed up with The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation to create a new IPA. The Flyin Ryan Hawks Foundation is a non-profit endeavor inspired by the life of Ryan Hawks. The foundation was founded in April of 2011 after Ryan Hawks, a well-known and widely respected extreme skier passed away … Read more
Congrats bigtruck for your Someone 2 Know segment on KTVN! Click HERE to watch the segment Locally manufactured in Truckee, bigtruck is spreading the idea of Fun First. Their mission is to promote the stoke through creative and function focused lifestyle products. Specializing in hand-cut, hand-sewn headwear. bigtruck delivers variety; allowing customers to choose and … Read more
Butt Kickin’ Bosu Community Class w/ fitness guru Carrie Haines! The High Fives Foundation is excited to once again team up with fitness guru Carrie Haines for a butt kickin’ Bosu Community Class at the CR Johnson Healing Center on September 20th at 9:00am. Carrie’s hour-long class will see participants using Bosu balls to get a full body workout, strengthening the … Read more
The High Five Crew would like to shed some light on high fives athlete Andrew Kurka! Andrew is a professional athlete/ skier for the U.S. Adaptive Ski Team, X games competitor and ski student instructor at Challenge Alaska. In 2005 at the age of 13 Andrew suffered a spinal cord injury at the T10 level. … Read more
KC Deane KC Deane is not only a local Tahoe pro skier, mountain biker and surfer, he is also a High Fives Athlete. This guy can’t be stopped! In 2010 while hitting a late-season backcountry booter in Lake Tahoe, he suffered a C-2 vertebrae break. The doctor told him he was lucky to be alive. … Read more
Eighty Truckee-Tahoe locals participated in the tournament presented by GoPro & Squaw Valley The High Fives Foundation hosted its 6th Annual Bocce Tournament at the Truckee River Winery on Sunday Sept.14. Approximately $10,000 was raised, an increase of $2,500 from the 2013 event, to support the recovery and rehabilitation efforts of traumatically injured winter action … Read more
