MTB Project

MTB Project

Jeremy McGhee: Your New Hero

by Brian Smith

Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Jeremy is a waterman. He grew up surfing and generally getting on the water whenever possible. While running errands on his motorcycle (almost exactly 14 years ago), Jeremy nearly lost his life when a motorist turned directly into his path. The collision left him helpless and bleeding in the street as his life slipped away.

By pure chance, a group of off-duty paramedics happened to be eating lunch on the corner and saw everything. Twenty minutes later, Jeremy was in surgery. If those paramedics hadn’t been right there, his surgeon told him, “You probably wouldn’t be alive.”

MTB Project

MTB Project

Jeremy McGhee – Mountain Biking in the Eastern Sierra

by Jason Smith

Jeremy first fell in love with Winter in Mammoth Lakes, but as the Summer season came around he realized how many opportunities for adventure awaited him in the warm months.

Not only does Jeremy shred Mammoth Mountain on his sit ski in the Winter, but he knows how to push the limits in the park and backcountry on his mountain bike.

Watch as he progresses his skills from park MTB riding to Backcountry MTB riding and attempts obstacles we can only imagine.

He has found that getting outside, learning new skills, and testing his physical and mental limits helps him cope with the claustrophobic feeling of being paralyzed.

Mammoth Magazine

Mammoth Magazine

Fighter

Jeremy P. McGhee had always been an audacious athlete, as comfortable on a surfboard as on a snowboard. But after a 2001 motorcycle crash left him paralyzed from the waist down - and nearly dead - he decided to live even more daringly.