Use Your Thru-Hike to Fundraise for Youth

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#1

Would anyone like to participate with me in a fundraiser for youth to reach the outdoors and share in our passion and love of backpacking?

I belong to an organization called BAWT:

http://www.bawt.org/

and have a website that is accepting donations on their behalf. I’d like to get some more thru-hikers involved in my Group. As of now I am a lowly single fundraiser, but I imagine if more of us get together, make our friends aware of what we are doing and ask for donations for kids, we might be able to raise some money and do our thru-hike for a good cause (as well as of course our own sadistic personal enjoyment)…

http://bawt.kintera.org/oak/maddogmurph

Anyway, here is the current link, but I’d like to change the name to include a group of us if I can find some others who are willing to do this with me.

-Mad Dog

“Mad Dog” Murph

#2

I am confused? you are asking for money so YOU can hike…in the name of kids? I am a bit lost here…Please explain.

DadInPain

#3

No, I’m asking if any through hikers for the PCT 2012 would like to join a group where we will try to fundraise for children to go outdoors. In a sense we would be creating competition for ourselves in the future, which I’m not sure is a positive thing, but we would also be giving children a chance to experience the outdoors.

I don’t get any money, BAWT takes the money, trains instructors, loans gear to schools, or other youth organizations, and they take the kids out camping, or backpacking.

We’d simply be directing friends and family to the link to try to fundraise for the cause.

“Mad Dog” Murph