My name is JP and I can best be described as a passionate and driven person.  Whether it is running my company, Tri and Du It Multisport, training for triathlons and running events, pursuing my passions or working to raise money for charities, I am 100% involved.  I started a blog to let people connect with me and follow what I am doing.  I have recently taken on a new challenge of trying to summit two mountains in Mexico, Orizaba and Ixta, to raise money for Big City Mountaineers.

Big City Mountaineers (BCM), a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is a recreational mentoring program for at-risk teens. The mission of BCM is to enhance the lives of under-resourced urban teens through transformative outdoor experiences. Summit For Someone is the primary fundraiser for BCM’s programs, which show teens a different perspective by taking them into wilderness areas in California, Colorado, Minnesota and the Pacific Northwest, with a one-toone
ratio of adult volunteers as positive role models. The core BCM program, RELATE (Recreational Experiences Linking Adults & Teens Environmentally) takes inner city kids on week long backpacking trips. Money raised by Summit for Someone participants directly increases the number of teens we can take out each summer on RELATE backpacking trips.

I have pledged to raise $7500 for this cause and will need everyone’s help to make it happen.  Click on the links on my page to visit my donation page or some of the fundraising events I am putting on.

We can’t change the world all at once, but it just takes opening the eyes of a youth and the warming of their heart to a notion that there is more to life than violence and only struggle.  There is hope.