The One Day Hike (ODH) is a challenging and fully supported annual event that comprises two hikes of 100km (62.1 miles) and 50km (31.1 miles). The One Day Hike may well be the mid-Atlantic region's oldest long-distance day hike. The first 100K from Washington DC to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, along the C&O Canal, was held in 1974 and it has been an annual event ever since.
The 2008 100K starts at 3 AM on April 26 in Washington, DC; and the 50K starts at 10 AM from Whites Ferry, MD. Both hikes proceed on the C&O Canal towpath along the Potomac River, ending in Harpers Ferry/Bolivar, WV, by midnight. Go visit onedayhike.org for more info!
I have signed up for the 100K version of this hike and really would appreciate your support in this ambitious journey. Besides encouragement (which I desperately need), I am also raising money for a local non-profit called Partnership for Smarter Growth.
The mission of the Partnership for Smarter Growth is to preserve and enhance quality of life by educating citizens and elected officials about the importance of land use, transportation, and other growth related issues, and by fostering the development of citizen advocates for Smart Growth. From the ground up, the Partnership for Smarter Growth functions to monitor and influence how and where we grow, in the City of Richmond, and the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield, Charles City, New Kent, Powhatan, and Goochland.
The way our built environment relates to our natural environment is essential to our health and happiness as individuals and as a community. Land use decisions have the potential to resolve rather than continue to cause the plethora of crises we face: from local infrastructure to global warming, from affordable housing to economic vitality, from transportation to the preservation of historic and natural resources. More options in where we live, work, and play, and how we get there, allows us to make personal choices, rather than allowing these decisions to be made for us.
The Richmond region has consumed more land in the last 20 years than in the last 400 (Southern Environmental Law Center, 2003). We must shift away from this frightening pattern of short-sighted and unbalanced development, and grow toward long-term sustainability. We must revitalize the urban core and inner suburbs, fostering walkable, vibrant, mixed-use, and mixed-income communities, and reduce pressure on rural areas encroached by sprawling, leapfrog development that ultimately burdens local governments and taxpayers.
You can learn more information about some of the current projects by visiting their website http://www.valcvef.org/partnership/ or emailing my PSG contact Shelia at PSG@PSGrichmond.org
The way I see it, your money is going towards improving the collective environment and specifically the quality of life for the citizens of Virginia (many of you!).
If you would like to help support PSG please contact me OR send checks or $ to my address:
Caroline Cobb
3021 Ellwood Avenue, APT A
Richmond, VA 23221
Checks should be made to: PSG / VALCV-EF
All donations are made through PSG’s fiscal agent and a member organization, the Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund. The Virginia League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, a nonprofit, tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization. All contributions are tax deductible within the limits of the law.
I will be updating this website with donators/donations so please check back soon!
THANK YOU SO MUCH for reading!
Caroline
