Jane Did It!

She ran the road to Eagle, 68 miles in three days, to celebrate her 68th birthday! Please consider celebrating her birthday and this amazing accomplishment by donating to ShelterBox USA and assist in reaching her fundraising goal. Your gift will help provide shelter to people in need after a disaster or in a conflict zone.

Many thanks to those who've already given!!!

Jane's journey took her through some of Alaska's most remote but still road-accessible country, very close to Canada in easternmost Alaska. About one vehicle per hour passed her as she moved along at about 4-5 mph, accompanied by her husband Steve with their pickup and camp-trailer. They saw lots of caribou and moose tracks, bear scat, and one well-defined wolf track ... but the largest critters they saw were squirrels! It was hot and sunny, in the upper 70s F, but at least the heat kept the mosquitoes down. It's very gorgeous country, up over summits and down to river crossings and back again.

Overall stats:

68.1 miles
15 hours, 45 minutes on the move
Average pace: 13:53/mile
Elevation gain: 5,250’
Elevation loss: 8,050’ (which is why she ran it in that direction!)
High point: 3,730’ at the start; American Summit, 50 miles in, is 3,642'
Low point: 852’ at the Yukon River

Thanks for following Jane on her run, and thanks for supporting ShelterBox!

Jane's run is equivalent to 2.6 marathons!

At the American summit

At the finish! The Yukon river with

The Route

Meet Jane:

Hear her interview on NPR affiliate https://fm.kuac.org/local-news...

This is not Jane's first ShelterBox adventure...

You may remember Jane from "Jane's Route 66", when she ran the 135-mile Denali Highway in Alaska and raised almost $9,000 for ShelterBox USA for her 66th birthday. Last year she ran, without fanfare or fundraising, 67 miles on the Top of the World Highway from the Alaska-Yukon border to Dawson City, Yukon.

She'd rather help others than just run for herself, so she's back in June 2023 asking you to support her run with a gift to ShelterBox to help provide disaster relief to those in need.

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Learn More About ShelterBox

Right now, over 1 million people around the world have been displaced by disaster and conflict. ShelterBox is working to change this.

Disasters and conflicts never take days off, and neither do we. We’re always on the ground, working to help the most vulnerable, no matter how remote. By providing emergency shelter and tools for displaced families, we’re transforming despair into hope.

We want to see a world where no family is left without shelter after disaster.

Learn more at www.ShelterBoxUSA.org

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