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This is my 4th year of participating in HIKE for Mental Health! My goal is 50 miles and $500 and I’m going to work to bring more friends and family along with me again this year!

I choose to HIKE for Mental Health to help stamp out the stigma of mental illness and help provide access to the outdoors. Mental health services and research are incredibly important and getting outdoors plays such a big role in our well being every day even if we don’t realize it. I encourage you to get outside – feel the breeze in your hair, appreciate the smell of the rain, paddle or row a river, take a walk or just explore. While these are things we may have done our whole life, their impact on our mental health can be HUGE.

Through HIKE for Mental Health, ”Eighty percent of the hike donations provide grants that enable scientific research aimed at alleviating suffering from mental illness, as well as to fund programs to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental illness. Every week, science yields a better understanding of and better treatments for mental illnesses. So much progress has been made. And yet, the work is not done while so many people and families still battle the diseases and the stigma. We work through the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and their outstanding NARSAD grants program and through our own programs to eliminate the stigma.

Twenty percent of the hike donations support preservation of wilderness trails. It is our way of giving back to the people and organizations that make it possible for all of us to enjoy our time on wilderness trails. We partner with well-established trail maintenance organizations to ensure the funds are spent in a responsible and impactful way.”

Please consider making a donation, leaving a message, sharing this page and getting out to hike yourself!
Thank you,
Katie & Friends!