Diabetes Fundraiser

In August I will be backpacking The Wonderland Trail on behalf of the American Diabetes Association.  I hope to bring awareness to Diabetes and raise money for a cure.  All of us have been touched by diabetes through family, friends, co-workers and maybe even yourself. My goal is to raise $1000.  

The Wonderland Trail  

The Wonderland Trail is an approximately 93 mile hiking trail that circumnavigates Mount Rainier in the Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. The trail goes over many ridges of Mount Rainier for a cumulative 22,000 feet of elevation gain. The trail was built in 1915. In 1981, it was designated a National Recreation Trail. An estimated 200 to 250 people a year complete the entire trail with several thousand others doing shorter sections of it. The average time taken to complete the entire trip is 10 to 14 days.

 

 

 

 American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes. Diabetes kills more Americans each year than breast cancer and AIDS combined.

“In the next 24 hours, over 130 people will develop kidney failure because of diabetes.

That’s nearly 50,000 friends, neighbors, co-workers or family members every year.

Recent estimates project that as many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes by 2050 unless we take steps to Stop Diabetes®.  Every 19 seconds, someone is diagnosed with diabetes. That’s more than 32,000 friends, neighbors, co-workers and family members in the next 7 days.

1 in 11 Americans has it.
1 in 4 adults who has it doesn’t know it.
1 in 3 adults is at risk of developing it.
It is diabetes.

And it must be stopped.”

Source:  http://www.stopdiabetes.com/get-the-facts/diabetes-by-the-numbers.html?loc=stopd-footer

This cause hits close to home because I have multiple family members with diabetes, including myself.

For more information on how you can get involved with the Stop Diabetes® campaign or make a donation to help support my goal, see the following link:

Go directly to The American Diabetes Association, http://main.diabetes.org/goto/Tina_Hikes to donate. 

I’ll start hiking August 24 and hope to finish by September 2. 

Disclaimer: The Wonderland Trail is not offering advance permits for 2016 so this will be a walk-up attempt.  If I am not able to procure a permit, I will hike another trail in the same area with the same approximate mileage- Plan B!

THANK YOU! 

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