We took a short break from creating content to allow ourselves to be more present and reconnect with the trail. We love being able to share our adventures with all of you, and it takes a lot of energy to keep creating content for all the media platforms. We will keep making content moving forward. Please like our videos and comment on them! It helps us get noticed by others on YouTube.
Thanks You,
BAM & Hero
We finished Oregon!!!!
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Thank you!
BAM & Hero
Hi friends! We are going to start posting longer form (5-10 minutes) video content on YouTube. Please go and subscribe to our channel to receive notifications of new content. It also helps us out a lot if you comment, like, and share our content. Tell your friends/family to follow us too! Thank you all for your support.
We will still be posting content on Instagram @hikingforhunger so don’t worry if you follow us there, that content won’t go away.
What’s that you say…? A CHALLENGE?! Why yes it ‘tis! We have decided that we will be participating in a thru hiking tradition called the 24 Hour Challenge- wherein hikers challenge themselves to hike for 24 hours straight!
Some of y’all might remember that we did something like this on the #appalachiantrail a few years ago, a tradition called the four state challenge where you hike from the VA/WV border, all the way through WV and MD to the MD/PA border (the Mason Dixon line). As we challenged ourselves, we challenged our amazing Hiking for Hunger community to help us raise funds for @manna_foodbank. We’re excited to get back at it again with this 24 Hour Challenge in Oregon!
We’ll have more details in the coming days, but for now here’s what to know:
✨We’ll be starting the challenge the evening of Wednesday 7/19, with the exact start time TBD (Pacific Time)
✨We’ll be hiking for 24 hours, and during that time we’ll be challenging our incredible community to donate to MANNA through Hiking for Hunger.
✨Donors can donate a set amount (we suggest $40 in honor of celebrating MANNA’s 40 years of service to WNC communities) or pledge a certain amount per mile we complete during the challenge! At the end of the challenge, we’ll send out an update with how many miles we covered over the 24 hour period 🤗
Stay tuned for more deets coming soon! Thanks as always for tuning in, fam!
Cheers!
Hero & BAM!
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In just a week (June 22nd), BAM & Hero will be celebrating their anniversary (3 years of marriage, 8 years total as partners)! We also are expecting to hit 1,000 miles on the PCT right around that time… wowza!
We hope you will help us celebrate these two big milestones by donating to @manna_foodbank through the Hiking for Hunger Project. Simply go to the link in our bio and select the Donate to MANNA button. Consider a donation of $22, in celebration of our anniversary on the 22nd- since MANNA can provide as many as 4 meals per $1 donated, this will help provide up to 88 meals for folks facing food insecurity in WNC!
OR, perhaps consider pledging a certain amount per mile! $.10/mi for 1,000 miles would be $100 (400 meals), and a grand total of $265.50 (1,062 meals) once we complete the trail.
In MANNA’s most recent edition of their Fresh News monthly newsletter, we find out that they served over 150,000 people in the month of April, a dramatic 12% increase from the month before. And they anticipate this trend will continue to climb… now more than ever, we need your help to ease this burden on our WNC neighbors.
For us, the greatest gift is being able to hike this trail together and fundraise and advocate for a cause so near and dear to our hearts, to make an impact in our small way for folks who need this support. We can’t thank y’all enough for helping us achieve this 💜
With love,
Hero and BAM
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Alright party people, get ready to throw down, because we’ve got a Hiking for Hunger Launch Event on the horizon!
We are so so SO thrilled to share with y’all that we’ll have a dedicated time and space to celebrate the start of this next journey with y’all. We want to say a HUGE TY to our friends at Mount Inspiration who have so graciously offered their space in WAVL as the venue for this shindig… y’all are amazing!!!
✨The Deets (That We Have Thus Far):
Where: Mount Inspiration Apparel West (444 Haywood Rd. Suite 103, Asheville, NC 28806)
When: Friday, April 7th, 2023 @ 6 pm
Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more info as we get closer to the day of the event. Feel free to share this invitation with friends and family.
Please RSVP by emailing us at micahandkeeka@hikingforhunger.org
WOOHOO! Can’t wait to see y’all on April 7th!
Happy Trails,
Hero & BAM!
Thursday, September 23rd we will be having our Hiking for Hunger celebration in Asheville, NC! @highlandbrewing is generously allowing us to set up outside in their Meadow, and we could not be more excited- thank you so much, Highland!
Please feel free to stop by anytime between 4 pm and 7 pm. This is a super laid back, come-and-go-as-you-please type of event to help reduce overcrowding. Our main goal is to provide an opportunity for our supporters and friends to ask us questions and celebrate what we all accomplished together.
What: Hiking for Hunger Celebration
When: Thursday, September 23rd 4PM to 7PM
Where: Highland Brewing 12 Old Charlotte Hwy #200, Asheville, NC 28803
The shaving of the BAM! Beard will take place at 6 pm. If you are unable to physically be at the gathering, we will be streaming this historic event on Instagram Live. A video will also be posted after the fact on social media and the Hiking for Hunger website. BYOS! (Bring Your Own Scissors) -only kidding, we will bring all of the shaving materials, lol.
If you ordered a Hiking for Hunger t-shirt and opted to pick up at the celebration, we will have those ready for you! Thanks again to everyone who ordered shirts, and another huge thank you to @mhnuckols for hand printing these beauties!
We can’t wait to see y’all! Thanks again for being a part of this journey! ❤
All of our love,
Hero & BAM!
Never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined that the Hiking for Hunger project would take off in the way that it did. $29,707.30 … we are so humbled by the compassion and generosity that has led to this number. A number that will make it possible for @manna_foodbank to help provide up to 118,829 meals to people in need in Western North Carolina. Think about that for a second, what that might mean to someone who doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from. For so many people in WNC being served by MANNA, the funds raised through this project will mean more access to healthy, nutritious meals. What that is is life changing.
This journey has been so deeply enriched for us by all of you- your support of this cause and encouragement along the way has buoyed us and left our hearts so full of determination, inspiration, love. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. Thank you for being a part of this- we are all Hiking for Hunger.
There’s still time to donate and have it count towards the Bye Bye BAM! Beard Challenge. We now need just under $300 to reach our goal of $30,000. If we can get there before August 25th, Hero will shave BAM!’s beard off at our celebration party in Asheville, NC in September (date/time/location TBD). $5 of every H4H commemorative tee shirt will be donated to MANNA, so get in your orders before August 25th (longer reminder post about tee shirts coming your way in the next few days).
You all truly are our heroes. ♥️
With hearts full of gratitude,
Hero & BAM!
Hiking for Hunger 