LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Lee Canyon is taking its in style Really feel Good Friday custom from the slopes to the paths, providing mountain biking and an opportunity to present again.
Starting Sept. 5, downhill mountain bike park day passes can be $25 each Friday by way of October. For every ticket offered, $5 can be donated to the Excessive Fives Basis, a nonprofit that helps folks with life-altering accidents rediscover the outside by way of adaptive sports activities.
Really feel Good Fridays, launched in 2017 throughout ski and snowboard season, has raised greater than $100,000 for Excessive Fives. That assist has helped athletes throughout the nation, together with Las Vegas native Shelby Estocado.
“Seeing Shelby go from injury to podium finishes shows what’s possible when adaptive athletes get support from organizations like High Fives Foundation,” Johnny DeGeorge, Lee Canyon’s advertising and marketing coordinator, mentioned. “Every Friday ride at Lee Canyon helps make those stories happen.”
Estocado, a standout at Bishop Gorman Excessive Faculty, went on to play Division I softball on the College of Tulsa and signify the USA Ladies’s Nationwide Baseball Crew.
In 2020, she suffered a T6 spinal twine harm whereas snowboarding. By Excessive Fives, she turned to adaptive sports activities, profitable medals in para-alpine snowboarding, competing in adaptive CrossFit, and even choosing up adaptive browsing and mountain biking.
For extra info on Lee Canyon’s mountain bike park and Really feel Good Fridays, go to leecanyonlv.com.
