Calling all Rocky Mountain families, it’s time to get motivated for you, your community, and others around the world—it’s the annual Range of Mobility Project (ROMP) climb!
First, what is ROMP? ROMP is a technology based nonprofit organization, which provides high quality prosthetic care in underserved populations, thus enhancing mobility and unlocking human potential. ROMP believes that prosthetic limbs and orthotic braces are not simply medical devices, but instruments of personal empowerment. ROMP recognizes the dual hardships of living in poverty with a disability, and stand in solidarity with those who are made to suffer from an unequal distribution of care.
Since 2005, ROMP has seen over 6,000 patients with custom-made prosthetic and orthotic devices in Guatemala, Ecuador, Mexico, Haiti, Pakistan, and the US. The organization believes that training locals to provide ongoing services in their communities is the only way to fix a long-term problem.
Second . . . HOW CAN YOU CLIMB FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY? HERE IS A LIST OF COLORADO CLIMBS!
Climbing for ROMP: The Main Event
Saturday July 22nd @ Mt. Sanitas in Boulder
$40 registration/donation includes: athletic shirt, breakfast, snacks, coffee, lunch sandwiches, hiking snacks, post-hike beers, games, celebration, vendor village sponsored by Whole Foods, pre-hike yoga class, kids face paint, massages. Kids are free, unless attending the kids camp. See below for more details.
Event Schedule
9 am: Yoga with Orly Eisbart: Join us for a stretch and flow class to get you moving and ready for your hike. This is an adult only class, although anyone over 8 years old is welcome! Cost of the class is included with registration.
9:30 am: Registration Opens: please plan to leave enough time to register, grab a snack, some water, and sunscreen up before heading up the mountain.
10 am: Hikers head out!
11:30 am: Hikers return, lunch, music, massages, face painting, Whole Foods Vendor Village
What to bring: Water, sunscreen, hat, and sturdy shoes!
SANITAS CLIMBING FOR ROMP KIDS CAMP
Do you want to hike without your kids? Arts & Minds Colorado, a licensed and insured provider of children’s programming, will be providing a kid’s camp with a mini-hike, art project, yoga, and more! You will have the opportunity to choose this option during registration.
Register for hiking and kids camp here!
Climbing For ROMP: The Ultimate Challenge
Saturday, July 22nd: 6:45 am
Grays & Torreys (two 14ers: one day)
$40 donation includes athletic shirt, snacks, and post climb celebration
Register and details here
Climbing For ROMP: Ibex Mt. Sherman Challenge
Sunday, July 23rd: 7:30 am
Register and details here
Climbing For ROMP: The Incline
Wednesday, July 26th: 6pm
Manitou Springs
Register and details here
Author: Julie Bielenberg
Julie is a mama of three who travels in search of fields, farms, families and more. Sometimes . . . she finds herself in often uncovered, or understated locales, which has since become her niche.
