Giving Tuesday Request

Giving Tuesday?

It’s a thing!

I’ll be doing the RUFA Run to support Wildland Firefighters Foundation Feb 21 2026 in Bozeman Montana. Laps of Drinking Horse Trail on the northeast side of town.

This weekend I have an opportunity to pre-run it and make some choices regarding footwear and nutrition, as well as just how many laps I can pull of in 12 hours.

I’d love to do one an hour, so 12, but if I could get in more than that? 50k worth?

In the meantime, I’m also doing the Merry Vertmas event for Aravaipa Virtual - with a goal of 100,000 feet of elevation gain for December. It’s tough, and I’ve done it once before a few years ago. This will be amazing training for RUFA as well as a few other things I have going next year.

Anyway, Giving Tuesday. Please contribute at the link here. Living in the west and having had my family evacuated for wildfire a few times now (legit) I understand the importance of helping these people out. With a son who worked for NPS and NFS and interacted with these people daily, I totally get it.

So check it out and let me know. I want your help.

https://runsignup.com/charlesmiske/Donate

[pic: summit of Quandary Peak, a CO 14er a few weeks ago]