Summit For Someone!

I am officially committed to raise $4000! OUCH! I sent the fax in last night and received my confirmation today! Summit for Someone is BackPacker Magazine's annual charity fund raising event to help benefit the at-risk teens of Big City Mountaineers. I have wanted to do this for years but have never really had the time or means to commit to it.
Big City Mountaineers provides urban teenage youth in need of positive adult mentoring with challenging, safe outdoor experiences designed to build self-esteem and positively impact their beliefs about themselves and others. Using the Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets model, BCM's program has been shown to improve our teens' beliefs with regard to positive values, social competences, positive identity, and support.
For every dollar that is raised $0.77 is used in Big City Mountaineers mentoring program, $0.23 is used for the Summit for Someone program costs. My pledge of $4000 will fully underwrite a one week recreational mentoring trip during summer 2008 for 4 at-risk, urban teens.
I have until June 1st to raise the money and on June 29th I will pack the Subaru and start the drive from Seattle to Jackson Hole Wyoming. From there me and 5 other "Summit for Someone" climbers will attempt to climb to the summit of Gannett Peak, the highest peak in Wyoming. We will spend 5 days total in the beautiful Wind River Wilderness.
Please donate and help me and Big City Mountaineers change the lives of inner city youth!
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