{"id":60833,"date":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-freshman-to-climb-mt-rainier-to-raise-funds-for-charity-serving-urban-youth\/"},"modified":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T00:00:00","slug":"uri-freshman-to-climb-mt-rainier-to-raise-funds-for-charity-serving-urban-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/uri-freshman-to-climb-mt-rainier-to-raise-funds-for-charity-serving-urban-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 freshman to climb Mt. Rainier to raise funds for charity serving urban youth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 26, 2013 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 freshman Ryan Wichelns has spent five years trying to reach the summit of all 46 Adirondack mountain peaks greater than 4,000 feet. When he accomplishes the feat this summer, he plans to celebrate by climbing one of the tallest mountains in the Lower 48, Mount Rainier in Washington.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve always loved being outside — I\u2019ve been going on family camping trips forever \u2013 and I love the physical and mental challenge of hiking and climbing,\u201d said Wichelns, a journalism major from Stillwater, N.Y. \u201cI\u2019ve progressed from hiking to climbing in the Adirondacks and now to wanting to do larger mountains.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tWichelns is climbing the 14,409-foot Mount Rainier to raise funds for Big City Mountaineers, a Denver-based charity that takes underprivileged inner-city youth on hiking, backpacking and paddling trips, providing many of them with their first taste of the great outdoors. He said he values the experiences he has had in the Adirondacks and wants to help others benefit from similar opportunities. Wichelns is half way to his $10,000 fund raising goal.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cRainier is the foremost mountaineering mountain in the continental U.S., and a great first mountaineering peak for me,\u201d said Wichelns, who will climb the mountain with a group of other climbers raising money for Big City Mountaineers. \u201cI\u2019ve done a little mountaineering, some ice climbing and rock climbing, but Rainier is putting it all together in one package. It\u2019s the most glaciated volcanic peak in the U.S., so it\u2019s more than anything I\u2019ve ever done.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 student describes the climb as \u201ca two-day sprint up the mountain\u201d that requires technical skill and great physical fitness to achieve. He admits to being a little nervous about the climb, in part because he has never spent time at such a high elevation, but he claims the biggest challenge is meeting his fundraising goal.<\/p>\n


\n\tIf everything goes according to plan, Wichelns will reach the top of Mount Rainier on August 11.<\/p>\n


\n\tA member of the 溏心vlog免费B站 rowing team, Wichelns said that workout sessions with the rowing team should put him in good shape for his summer of mountain climbing, but he won\u2019t be resting after the semester is over. He and a friend plan to hike 200 miles across the Adirondacks over three weeks in June, leaving them a month to continue to workout and prepare to climb Rainier.<\/p>\n


\n\tWichelns enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站 after spending annual family vacations in the area for most of his childhood. \u201cI fee like I know South County like I know my hometown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n


\n\tHe has had a lifelong interest in writing, and he hopes to combine a degree in journalism and his passion for climbing into a career.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI\u2019d love to write for an outdoor publication,\u201d Wichelns said. \u201cI like the news aspect of journalism, too, but ideally I\u2019d like to continue climbing progressively larger mountains and share those experiences in stories I write for an outdoor magazine.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThose interested in supporting his Mount Rainier fundraising campaign for Big City Mountaineers can visit his website at www.adirondacktraverse.org.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto submitted by Ryan Wichelns<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 26, 2013 \u2013 溏心vlog免费B站 freshman Ryan Wichelns has spent five years trying to reach the summit of all 46 Adirondack mountain peaks greater than 4,000 feet. When he accomplishes the feat this summer, he plans to celebrate by climbing one of the tallest mountains in the Lower 48, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}