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Hiking for Charity
Hiking for charity is an activity in which everyone can participate. Individuals, clubs and groups of all types interested in helping others will find that registering for Climb Up So Kids Can Grown Up and hiking for charity is a lot of fun. Whether it is a day-long outing or a season-long challenge, hiking for charity can create many challenges perfect for fundraising.
Climb Up is a self-directed charity challenge; participants are asked to create their own event and recruit sponsors to benefit African children with AIDS. With just a small amount of effort, Climb Up participants can enjoy their favorite activity while truly “Hiking for Charity.”
Hiking offers options that most participants will find well suited to creating a charity hiking event. Although creativity can be used to create a number of unique, hybrid events, there are several goals that have proven to be popular when hiking for charity:
Hiking Trails
Hiking trails across the country present great opportunity for individual and teams of hikers to create a Climb Up charity challenge. Regardless of a hiker’s level of fitness or skill, hiking trails offer an enjoyable, challenging experience for everyone. Some challenges created on the hiking trails include:
Backpacking – Backpacking is a favorite activity for many Climb Up participants that enjoy hiking trails. Normally a longer, overnight hike that involves camping, backpacking challenges normally involve distance. Other unique backpacking related challenges have included a “Backpacker Olympics” that tested the camping and outdoor skills of members of a backpacking club.
Day Hikes – Long distance hikes are not the only option available to those interested in participating in Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up; Day hikes have been a favorite for many. Easily planned and executed, day hikes are great for families and groups of all types, like church groups, youth groups and day camps. Common Climb Up goals for day hikes include reaching a summit, a race to the summit or a scavenger hunt held on local hiking trails.
Hiking Club Events – Organized hiking club events are a great way to become involved with Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up. Hiking club events can include a special trips, a social event or simply adding a twist to a regular hikes in an effort to energize hiking club members and help others in the process. Hiking clubs interested in participating in Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up are invited to contact us for more details on how we can help them make their event fun and memorable.
Mountain Hiking
Mountain hiking is enjoyed by millions of people across the world as a healthy and enjoyable sport, which can be easily incorporated into a Climb Up charity event. Whether tested by the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, Appalachians or one of the many other beautiful mountain hiking destinations, hikers can easily create individual or team challenges that will motivate them as well as potential sponsors. Some suggested mountain hiking challenges include:
Hiking National Parks – Hiking National parks is a favorite among Climb Up participants. Perfect for individuals and families, hiking national parks offers a wide range of terrain and a variety of attainable goals. Past participants have had a number of national parks related hiking goals including the number of trails hiked within national parks, as well as mileage hiked within national parks.
Summit Hiking – Getting to the top is commonly the main goal any hiker, so summit hiking is always a favorite. Summit hiking offers Climb Up participants a number of different goals, such as reaching the summit, hiking a particular route, or summit hiking a number of mountains over a given summer. Regardless of whether you choose to conquer one summit or many, hikers that have created a Climb Up challenge enjoyed summit hiking and succeeded in helping African children with AIDS.
Orienteering
Orienteering is a family of sports that lends itself well to Climb Up charity events. Requiring navigational skill, orienteering can be pursued as both an individual and team activity. Competitive orienteering includes a fitness component that encourages participants to actively train for events and competitions, however this activity does not require athletic prowess and orienteering can be enjoyed by everyone. People of all levels of fitness and skill can use orienteering as the basis for a successful Climb Up charity event. Some ideas include:
Orienteering Goals – Active orienteers of all types can set goals to motivate themselves and enlist the support of family, friends and coworkers to help children with AIDS. Goals can include event participation, training, or improvement in one’s timed results. Regardless, whether participating as an individual or as a team orienteering goals are a perfect match to participate in Climb Up.
Orienteering Club Event – Regardless of the frequency of scheduled events, an orienteering club event is a perfect way for orienteering clubs to participate in Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up. Orienteering offers a great deal of flexibility in the type and location of an event, so an orienteering club event can be easily crafted into a successful fundraising event. Whether for veteran orienteers, or designed with the uninitiated in mind, an orienteering clubs will find planning a club event to fight AIDS fun and easy.
About Climb Up so Kids Can Grow Up
Climb Up So Kids Can Grow Up is a fundraising initiative created by the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, an African AIDS Charity that assists children affected by the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Participants are asked to select a demanding physical challenge, recruit sponsors and donate the proceeds to help African children with AIDS.