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Mellow Ventures Team Enters Pikes Peak Challenge
Mellow Ventures supports the Pike's Peak Challenge, a unique fundraising event held annually each September where registered participants raise money for the Brain Injury Association of Colorado by hiking 13 miles and 7,400 vertical feet to crest the summit of 14,110-foot high Pikes Peak. Pikes Peak Challenge
The 2009 24th Annual Pikes Peak Challenge was held on September 12, 2009 and Mellow Ventures fielded a team to compete in the Challenge. The Mellow Ventures team raised more than twice the amount from our previous entry in 2007 thanks to the generosity of team sponsors. Team Mellow Ventures departed the trail head just after 5am, reaching Barr Camp (6.5 miles) around 9am. Temperatures started off around 40 degrees at the trailhead and dropped below 30 degrees at the summit. Reports of snow on the peak and lightening threatened to turn hikers around not departing Barr Camp by 10am. Our team headed out of Barr Camp about 9:50am after refilling water, and encountered snow for the last mile and summited the peak about 3pm (2 1/2 hours better than in 2007) where we had hot soup and waited for vans to take us for the hour-long ride down the back of Pikes Peak. Click on the pictures below for a better view.

The following is a brief video of Mellow Ventures CEO Brent Mellow taken at various points from Barr Camp through the Pikes Peak summit.

Listed below are some staggering brain injury statistics based on national estimates.  Don't let brain injury victims become just another number - get involved today by becoming a sponsor, becoming a volunteer, donating money or registering for the hike.

  • Every 23 seconds in america a person sustains a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).
  • Every 5 minutes one of these people will die and another will become permanently disabled.
  • As may Americans die every year from TBI as died in the entire history of the Vietnam War.
  • Brain injury is the leading killer and disabler of the country's children and young adults.
  • Research into the control and treatment of TBI receives less than one penny of every Federal dollar spent on medical research.
  • Annual number of new cases of TBI is 8 times greater than the number of new cases of breast cancer.
  • Annual number of new cases of TBI is 34 times greater than the number of new cases of HIV/AIDS.
  • There are 900,000 persons living with HIV/AIDS and public spending is $18,111 per person.
  • There are 3 million persons living with breast cancer and public spending is $295 per person.
  • There are 5.3 million persons living with disability from TBI and public spending is only $2.55 per sperson

Here are some pictures from the 2007 Pikes Peak Challenge.  You can see the weather was clear, providing much better photo opportunities.

To learn more visit the Pikes Peak Challenge website.
 

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