PFP Blog | Peaks For Parkinsons

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Over the Peak

Peaks For Parkinson's 2020 Dedicated to Jim "Rolling Thunder" Hester

Our Dad Was Diagnosed at Age 39

What is a Trail Community?

I Finished!

200 Miles! This is for you Jim Hester.

Over the Hump on Hump Day!

PD Encounters on The Trail

Great Days, Cold Nights

I Made it 100 Miles

Scenes From 55 Miles

Peaks For Parkinson’s Has Begun

Trail Angels!

Oct 31
1 min

Over the Peak

Thanks to all of your support, Peaks For Parkinson’s exceeded its fundraising goal of $10,000. If you didn’t see it, there was a nice wri...

Oct 23
4 min

Peaks For Parkinson's 2020 Dedicated to Jim "Rolling Thunder" Hester

July 20, 1944 – May 11, 2019 [Jim Hester and Zuni Bear on the Mount Mansfield summit in 2010.] When I decided to do Peaks For Parkinson's...

Oct 21
2 min

Our Dad Was Diagnosed at Age 39

Thanks to four-time Long Trail end-to-ender John Page for sharing his family's experience with Parkinson's Disease beginning in the early...

Oct 11
9 min

What is a Trail Community?

I don’t think you can thru-hike the Long Trail without benefiting from the trail community in some way. By “trail community,” I mean the ...

Oct 5
3 min

I Finished!

After 27 days of walking the length of Vermont over the Green Mountains, I arrived at the Canada Border on Saturday, October 3. The days ...

Sep 25
2 min

200 Miles! This is for you Jim Hester.

Well, here I am at Twin Brooks Tenting site on a beautiful autumn day. I’ve walked 200 miles, thinking about people with Parkinson’s ever...

Sep 24
1 min

Over the Hump on Hump Day!

It was a tough ten miles. I have new blisters to prove it. Today, my friends, Tim Macke (whose grandmother lived with PD) and Ram Verma, ...

Sep 22
1 min

PD Encounters on The Trail

Yesterday, I ran into two southbound section hikers, “The Hoon” and “Vintage,” and we started talking. I mentioned why I was hiking and T...

Sep 19
2 min

Great Days, Cold Nights

I’m now just over 140 miles—so halfway to Canada. I had some fun visitors on the trail yesterday and it was a very social day. The past c...

Sep 16
1 min

I Made it 100 Miles

Service and battery life have been spotty and poor so this blog overall might be more of a photo blog. Here are a few shots from my last ...

Sep 12
1 min

Scenes From 55 Miles

Berries at Harmon Hill Epic mud (trail) before Stratton Mountain Trail bridge and fall colors My dear friend, Deb, joined me for the hike...

Sep 7
1 min

Peaks For Parkinson’s Has Begun

Day 1: Today I began my long walk north to Canada. Hiking these first miles through the forest has already heightened my senses and trigg...

Sep 3
1 min

Trail Angels!

Resupplies dropped off in the north. Thank you Ed O’Leary and John Predom.

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