Mount Rainier Benefit Climb!
Date posted: August 1, 2011
Todd Rutledge, Board President, Owner of Mountain Trip
Skills for Living and Learning is culminating their summer program with an ascent of Washington’s Mount Rainier. The Bayfield based institution blends therapy with education to provide an alternative-learning environment for area children via an accredited K-3 school, a pre-school and their popular summer program. This summer’s theme has been a Reading Road Trip of the West. The final week of the program will coincide with a benefit climb up the iconic volcano located outside Seattle and the students will follow the progress of a team of climbers who will ascend the mountain as a fundraiser for the program.
The Rainier benefit climb is the second such climb that Skills’ Board President Todd Rutledge has organized to help raise money for the non-profit school. His Ophir, CO based mountain guiding service, Mountain Trip, organized a very successful attempt of Alaska’s Mount McKinley a year ago. This year, they are teaming up with a family game company out of Seattle, Discovery Bay Games, to send a message out from up high that our special kids deserve every opportunity for support that we can provide them. The goal of the climb is to raise $5000 for Skills for Living and Learning
The team will climb the mountain over five days via a route called the Emmons Glacier. Instruction in mountaineering skills will be provided for lesser-experienced climbers. The climbers will check in daily with the students at the Skills for Living and Learning summer program, who will be tracking their progress from Bayfield.
Skills for Living and Learning would like to thank the supporters of this fundraising climb, Discovery Bay Games, Mountain Trip, and a generous donation from the Montrose, CO based dentist office, Colorado Smiles.
Read the article in the Durango Herald for more….. http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20110728/NEWS01/707289934/-1/News01/Climbing-Rainier-to-help-little-learners
