About

It all started when…

Nick grew up in a loving family. He was very active and always trying to do new things. As he grew up, Nick learned how to snow ski at the age of 3 years old and on the mountain 6 times a winter for years after. By high school he was riding twin-tip snow skis, taking black diamond runs backwards. Nick would ski anything on the mountain, from double black diamonds to terrain park wilderness. 

Some friends of his lived on a local lake and invited him to go out wake boarding throughout the summer. He picked it up quickly and by high school Nick was working on spins and flips.
Also in high school Nick was introduced to Rock-climbing and picked that up fast as well. He purchased equipment and would climb out in nature as often as possible.
He was on a Gymnastic/Acros team training personally as well as learning how work as a team while building large human pyramids. They created some four person high pyramids, all in ways of contouring their bodies. Nick also learned and created his own routine where 4 men would do flips off the ground, off each other, and even create their own 3 pyramid and do flips out of that.

In 2007 he graduated high school and spent the summer working on a landscaping crew. That fall/winter Nick reluctantly decided to go to the local community college. After a semester of torturing himself with his academic standing,
he traveled to visit a friend from high school and that is when he learned a whole new meaning to life.

Nick visited his high school friends in Walla Walla Washington the weekend of January 25-27, 2008. Sunday morning he woke up and started his journey home. Upon departure, Nick realized how the weather had taken a turn for the worse and there was snow heaped everywhere.
Driving slowly out of town, he traveled around a corner and lost control of the car. The car had hit a patch of black-ice, spun out , slamming into a parked flat-bed semi trailer that was parked in a near by parking lot.
The impact of the car and trailer caused Nick’s body to be whipped across the car, his head colliding with the trailer. This impact forced a chuck of his skull 4 inches into his brain. Nick was transferred to Saint Maries hospital where they took him right into surgery.

His family was contacted, but were told not to make the travel. The roads were terrible. The normally 3 1/2 hour long trip took 6 hours, but the family made the trek. Once reaching the hospital they talked to the medical staff there. The doctors said that Nick had 50% chance to live, but if he lived Nick would be a vegetable. He might not ever be able to walk again, he might not ever talk again. He might not be a normal human being ever again. They were suggested to pull his life support plug.

13 years down the road, Nick has accomplished far more than ever expected to. He was released from the hospital in late August of 2008. Attending Physical therapy, Occupational therapy and even Speech therapy became his life for the next 4 1/2 years. Nick has always pushed himself and do the best he can. Nick was challenged to walk 365 miles within 365 days. Completing it, he looked for the next challenge or task that he would do.

Going back to college was not a great desire of his, but he knew that he had to overcome every obstacle. He is currently working on his Associates of Science degree at the community college, which he plans to transfer for his bachelors degree in business administration with a minor in marketing.

In 2013, Nick rode 1,000+ miles on a stationary bicycle, to continue his therapy and to accomplish something that not many else have ever done. His goal was to ride this bicycle 3,650 miles within one year, but after 1,000 miles in just 2 1/2 months he decided it was too easy.

In 2018, a group decided to actually do it! They are going to ride their bicycles 4,200 miles. But not stationary bikes, but actually bicycles. They will ride all the way across the United States of America. They must do this within 3 1/2 months, for Nick to get back to his educational advances in college.