Dorean Sabia beats cancer
“I thought there's no way cancer is going to [hiking] that from me,” Doreen Sabia is quoted as saying in The Desert Sun. “That's what got me going. That's what saved my life.”
Sabia started out walking through Palm Springs neighborhoods, until before a friend told her about the Skyline Trail.
The Skyline Trial starts behind the Palms Springs Art Museum and gains 8000 ft. in over 11 miles making it a grueling day hike, especially in hot southern California weather.
Sabia would often complete the hike in four hours. That’s why she was shocking to find out she had lung cancer.
But Sabia is a fighter, she finished chemotherapy in five mounts, which is just over half the time the oncologist said it would take.
At first, she barely had the strength to climb a flight of stairs. Now, she is back to hiking the trail she loves.
Hiking helps Jeff Rafuse quit smoking
After hearing about the American Lung Association's annual Climb for Clean Air, Jeff Rafuse decided to join the fundraising journey up Mount Rainer.
Rafuse heard about the climb up the 14,410 ft. mountain when Don O’Neill, of the Ron and Don radio show on KIRO in Seattle, announced he’d be making the trek in his friend Brady Perkins’ memory.
The trek demands hikers are in shape so Rafuse, who had been smoking since he was 15 years old, knew he’d have to quit smoking if he planned to reach Rainer’s summit.
The guided trip Rafuse took only had three stops where hikers were awarded an opportunity to head back if they couldn’t hack it. After the second stop, they had lost four hikers and two guides.
With one guide remaining at the third stop, it was everyone or no one. Exhausted they pushed to the summit.
Rafuse hasn’t smoked another cigarette.
“There was something different this time I quit,” he told The Issaquah Press. “I have absolutely no desire to do it again. My mindset is different. I feel tremendously healthier.”
The group raised over $100,000 for the ALA.
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