Alaska Challenge!

For a majority of the month of June I will be spending my time in Alaska, climbing to the summit of 9,545 foot tall Mount Dickey. The trek, which includes a handful of adaptive athletes, along with professional guides and adaptive professionals will be made over approximately 12 days, using sit down cross country skis and climbing equipment. Call me crazy, but doesn't this seem like my, the adventurous, insane, and sometimes slightly moronic person's dream? Well, yes folks, this is  the dream now. As an athlete, and a budding geologist, I want nothing more than to be pushed to my limits in the jaw-dropping landscape of Alaska. 


Telluride Adaptive Sports Program is leading this trip, with Mountain Trips doing the guiding services. This isn't their first trek to the Alaskan tundra, and they have future plans to help adaptive athletes to summit Denali. In a few years, I'm pretty sure I'll want to be a part of that trip too. This is the press release with even more juicy details about this years trek: Press Release

I'm being given scholarship through the Heidi Kloos Memorial Fund at Mountain Trip and TASP. Heidi Kloos was an avid mountaineer. She climbed Denali 10 times, and climbed all over the world. In March 2010, an avalanche took her life. This memorial fund has been created  in her honor to get women involved in the Alaska Adventure, and this year I'm in!


There are quite a few ways to donate if you'd like to help me out in getting to Alaska and to the summit of Mount Dickey. 


You can write a check to Telluride Adaptive Sports Program and you'd just need to write on it for Heidi Kloos Fund for MiKayla Briere and mail it to:
Telluride Adaptive Sports Program
Attn: Tim McGough
P.O. Box 2254
Telluride, Colorado 81435


You can donate on paypal at this website:
Paypal Donations for TASP Heidi Kloos Fund!
and then briefly send an email to tasp@tellurideadaptivesports.org with your name and that your donation is for the Heidi Kloos Fund for MiKayla Briere


And Lastly, you can call (970) 728- 5010 and make a donation over the phone, and again if you wish for your donation to help fund my trip, please state that you wish for it to be used for me.