I find storys of people overcoming the challenges that life throws your way to be inspiring. A few years ago while hiking on Mt Woodson in San Diego I meet a veteran who had lost both legs to an explosive device while serving in Afghanistan. He was training to get ready to climb Mt Kilimanjaro, when I heard that it blew my mind. I’ve always wondered if I had gone through something simular if I would have the mental and physical fortitude to push past the obstacles that life throws in your way and excel. Meeting that veteran led me to the oginazation the Heroes Project, an orginzation that puts on events and raises money to send wounded veterans on adventures that help rebuild mind and body, they put on an event called Climb for Heroes every year along with several other events to help raise money for this cause, something I can totally get behind.

Recently Rangel from a company called Lyfx ( a company that connects “Local Experts” with people looking for adventures ) * I have yet to use the service so I am not promoting the company, its just an interesting story that I thought my readers may enjoy *,  sent me a story about a young man born with cerebral palsy who has overcome so much in his life to excel in it, including recently climbing  Punta Penia on Marmolada, the highest point in the Dolomites.  I always find these storys inspiring, so I thought I would pass it on to you the reader, enjoy the read. 

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The day a boy became a man and inspired the world

The view of Two Harbors and the blue green seas. A lot of boats where in the harbor for the Catalina Classic paddle board race which was happening the next morning.

I recently decided to take a little adventure over to Catalina Island, one of the Channel Islands off of the coast of Southern California. I hade never been there and my buddy was trying to figure out some hike to do to celebrate his upcoming 50th birthday, when he had asked me if I had ever been to Catalina and I said no, we knew where we had to go. There is a lot of good information on the internet about how to do this hike, and we did not do the whole thing, we decided to do 24 miles in 3 days from Avalon to Two Harbors. We had a great time and I think I came away with some unique insights into this hike that I had not read on other reviews. So read on and see if this is an adventure that you may want to take. 

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