Jasmin Peterson was a force.

Jasmin made you want to do more, give more, be more. At work, she launched suicide prevention programs, ran annual food drives, and helped create scholarships for autistic kids. She was an environmentalist in the truest sense, always mindful, always intentional. She handmade gifts, supported women-owned businesses, and never missed a chance to lift others up.

Jasmin was only 29 when she died from GIST cancer. It’s a rare cancer that fewer than 5,000 people a year are diagnosed with, and her specific mutation was even more rare. She didn’t get a fighting chance. But she would have wanted to make sure someone else does.

She would’ve created this hike herself. In fact, this was her plan. We’re just helping it grow.

So, each year around her birthday, we hike. We step outside, into the wild places she loved, and we take Jasmin with us. And we raise the money that might save the next fierce soul from the same fate.