2010 WINTERSKÖL HIKE FOR HOPE
HELP FIND A CURE FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17th, Start Time: 7:30 a.m.
BUTTERMILK MOUNTAIN, ASPEN, COLORADO

THANK YOU for making our amazing community what it is. The 6th Annual Hike for Hope was a HUGE success. We are grateful for your donations, sponsorships, registration fees and volunteering of your valuable time toward our efforts. Your generosity has and will go directly to the most promising Muscular Dystrophy specific research, which gives our boys hope for a better tomorrow.

Thanks again for supporting our efforts and here are the finish results for 2010.

6th Annual Hike for Hope Buttermilk Uphill - Results - January 17th


Who are we?

We are parents of a son who has an incurable disease called Becker Muscular Dystrophy. Our mission is a grassroots effort to bring focus and research to DMD, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the leading killer of young boys. Our son Ian has Becker Muscular Dystrophy which is a less severe form, but just as frightening. One in every 3500 boys are born with DMD. Every day two boys die of DMD. This is a genetic disorder, approximately 60% of the mutations are hereditary, but because it is random, most families don't know of its existence. 40% of the time it occurs because of a spontaneous mutation at birth. Simply put this is a muscle wasting disease. The prognosis has been the same for years: Wheelchair by 9 - 12 and life expectancy between late teens and early twenties. IT CAN HAPPEN IN ANY FAMILY. We have learned that DMD is an "orphan" disease and that pharmaceutical companies do not invest in bringing cures to market because the number of end users does not make it profitable enough. So we have taken matters into our own hands and embarked on a path to affect change...to raise the funds needed to cure DMD and BMD in our son's lifetime.

100% of the funds raised goes to cutting edge research. We hope that one day, no longer will young boys have to cry because they can't keep up with their friends because their legs cramp, no longer will they need wheelchairs or have to go to a camp to feel and be "normal" and most importantly no longer die before they have a chance to really live! Our vision is to draw awareness to the fact that there are far too many incurable diseases killing our children, let's put a stop to this now!!! With your help we can take a step for hope, take a step to cure, take a step because we can.

You should know that every penny of your gift goes directly to the research lab and no funds are to be diverted for paying indirect costs or institutional overhead. That means 100% of the money raised goes to research. All expenses are donated. No payrolls. No profits. Your dollars go directly to the lab to help find a cure.

Hike for Hope is operating under the HIKE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION INC
936 W Francis St., Aspen, CO. 81611
Tel: 970-925-6137,
Tax-exempt 501 (c)(3)
charitable organization.
Tax ID 20-3596738

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