Jason William Hunt Foundation

Special Thanks to all who added to my birthday! Your wishes were most appreciated. Still above the grass, life is good. As my grandkids card reminded me - Don't sweat it -- Folks do not like sweaty old men!

Great to be back skiing after being off the slopes for 12+ years. Especially now that I can ski with my daughter Amy Hunt Pierce and her crew. Amazing how well after three days the grandkids are skiing! But then again having Tom Oka taking pictures and giving tips yesterday was a blast. Even got me finding success on these shaped skis Goodbye to my old K2 Cheeseburger Deluxe shorts.

Tickets are still available. $100 each max 60. Drawing Nov 22, 2023. 8:00 PM at Big Ash Brewing 5230 Beechmont Ave, Cincinnati. Need not be present to win. Tickets & details contact [email protected]

🐤 🦖 Do you see a dinosaur or duck in the clouds?

🥾🥾🐶 Or do you see Dayna from Open Sky Wilderness Therapy hiking with her pup to help raise money for wilderness therapy scholarships?

Get your Jason T-shirt and climb on! (or walk, jog, swim....)

Aho

Click here to participate: https:// www.jwhf.org

🎃 TRICK OR TREAT!!! 🎃
We have once again been graciously offered the Marco Island condo. The attached flyer has complete details. FYI:
1) Seven Night stay
2) Drawing is November 22, 2023 at Big Ash Brewing, Cincinnati, OH.
3) $100 per ticket max 60 tickets.
4) Four weeks to choose from (April, May, June & August)
Note. Prior to the drawing please take a moment to review the condo's available dates, this will help our owners with their scheduling
5) Pick your lucky number (00-99) and add to your LAST NAME (ex. Hunt00) when purchasing the tickets.
5) Your presence is not required at the drawing. All are welcome to join us that evening.

Last year's winner enjoyed the condo so much she went condo shopping.

Climb on!

www.jwhf.org/donate then click Paypal button

Or call 513 375 2286

🏃🏻‍♀️Oregon Residents! Come and join us on Sunday, November 5th, in Ashland for our annual Jason's Day Relay. We (friends of the JWH Foundation) are organizing a group to road bike together, followed by a 3k walk, then a run, and concluding with a Mountain Bike Ride. Pick any leg or show your grit and do them all (we have never had anyone do that, so be a trendsetter!).

Please join us and help raise money for the Jason William Hunt Foundation to provide scholarships for teens in need of wilderness therapy. DM to let me know if you plan to play with us. If you can't participate with us on Nov 5th, that's not a problem—you can do anything at any time. Just register with the link below, and you are good to go. https://www.jwhf.org

Organized by Dr. Scott Bandoroff of Peak Experience https://peakexperience.org

Schedule
9 a.m.- road bike ride through the hills of Talent
12 p.m.- walk from Dog Park to the reservoir
1 p.m. - run from the reservoir to White Rabbit Trailhead
2 p.m.- mountain bike White Rabbit Trails

Author Tami Ann and her friend Mary Pearce hit the hiking trails today to support Jason William Hunt Foundation.

October is Therapeutic Wilderness Awareness™ Month. The Jason William Hunt Foundation's mission is to A) inform families in crisis of the value of therapeutic wilderness expedition treatment programs to effect life-saving changes in at-risk teens and B) provide financial assistance to help defray such treatment costs. These clinically supervised and controlled programs may last from 40 to 89 days at an average cost of $500.00 daily. Jason's Day™ Virtual 5K Charity Event is an opportunity for outdoors lovers to help in that mission.

Participating in the Jason's Day Virtual Charity Event is not too late! As a virtual event participant, you get to pick a date from now until November 15th, the time, the location, and the exercise (walk, run, bike, hike, climb, ride, swim, paddle, cave, tent, stationary equipment, or read a book) that suits you best. Just do what you love best!
LINK TO SIGN UP IN THE BIO or find us on our website: https://www.jwhf.org/

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We can’t wait to see what you are doing!

I am writing today to tell you about a special individual who has been very supportive of Jason’s Foundation and in therapeutic wilderness in general. In fact he has spent his career in the field helping others.

I have known of Scott Bandoroff, Ph.D. since 2010 when I met his co-founder Sandy Newes Ph.D. while researching for my book WALKING WITH JASON. They created the Clinical First Responder Training Program for wilderness staff to be better prepared for trauma in the field. Then, about four years ago, I met Scott at a conference in Asheville. But it wasn’t until recently that I got to see Scott in action.

When we introduced Jason’s Day* Virtual 5K Scott got a group of friends together to participate in Eugene, OR. In the process they created a video which is still on the website’s home page – and attached to this message. Last year, I realized we could be at an all-time high if we got a few more participants. I sent a blast email asking for help. Scott answered to say he was working on it and I could rest as the job was done. I joking wrote back that he must be Batman as I felt like the mayor of Gotham when he sends out the Bat Signal and Batman responds. Thus, I named Scott “Batman” and thought it was over. That same day Scott sends me a photograph of himself leaning against a black sedan, a bit worse for wear, but proudly showing, on the driver’s door, the Bat Logo!!!!!! Scott still claims it just happen to be out side his house that day. (You just cannot make this stuff up!)

JWHF created the On Belay Award to recognize folks who move the foundation forward. It could be showing us a new way to fundraise, a new way mission, or, as a in Scott’s case, generating support by calling, emailing, and chasing his friends to make this happen. He did all this while traveling to Ukraine to aid 16 families to emigrate to the USA. Busy man!

The award reads: Presented to Scott “Batman” Bandoroff In "Recognition of Your Efforts of Helping Others By Answering the Call. March 2023"

If you know Scott send “Batman” your congratulations.

Climb on!
Call. March 2023

If you know Scott send “Batman” your congratulations.

Climb on!

There is no health without mental health!

⤴️Take care of your mental health. Walk, hike, swim, meditate.
Whatever suits you!