By Casi Beth, January 2025 Ski & Snowboard participant A little over a week home from my Send It trip and I’m still in awe about the whole experience. I was diagnosed in my early 20’s and never met a single person my age throughout my journey, even still receiving treatment, I don’t see people … Read more
By Lindsay Carr It has been about a week since I got back from my backpacking trip with Send It and I am still finding it hard to put into words how deeply impactful an experience the trip was for me. I was only very recently diagnosed with cancer, so in the midst of everything medically happening … Read more
By Aryn Bates My journey with Send It began in the summer of 2022, four years after my Stage III Triple-Negative Breast Cancer diagnosis and just shy of my thirty-first birthday. As a young adult cancer patient, I faced a unique array of challenges and obstacles, often feeling deeply isolated amidst peers who were seemingly miles … Read more
by Jonathan Hutton Send It Alumni, Jonathan Hutton, was awarded the Vy Nguyen Koller Grant towards a paragliding P2 pilot certification class in 2023. Recurrence is a powerful motivator. More than 10 years ago, I started dreaming about paragliding, having discovered the sport after dabbling in skydiving. Rare and persistent head/neck cancer wasn’t the only … Read more
by Caitlin Kingsley What have you done since cancer that you never would have done before? It was day one of the Mindfulness in Nature retreat and a few of us were taking a late afternoon walk on the beach. In true young-adult-cancer-club fashion, we were already past the BS and small talk, so a … Read more
SENDtember is the month to unleash your inner adventurer, push boundaries, and have FUN! We’re coming together to support the 90,000 young adults diagnosed with cancer in the US each year. Check out past Senders below. Get Inspired. How are you going to Send It this SENDtember? RAFI RUNS THE RUT Rafi crushed his goal … Read more
We wanted to express a heartfelt thank you to the amazing friends and family of Send It Alumni, Kelsey Palmer. Your generous contributions in Kelsey’s honor made the May 2023 Surf and Ride trip possible! We wanted to share the touching words from the trip participants, so you can see just how much of an … Read more
Written by AJ Veach A little creativity can go a long way in the backcountry. Gather together a group of cancer survivors, and you are bound to learn a few new pro tips. The same resourcefulness helping people live their best lives through illness carries over into backpacking. Along the trail there are bound to … Read more
Written by Tim Sarver Send it. What a simple, yet motivational name. Once I heard about the Send It Foundation after being diagnosed, I immediately thought it would be a good idea to apply for a trip. Upon receiving notice that I had been accepted for the Backpacking the Sierras trip, I was ecstatic. However, … Read more
This past May, I kissed my honey goodbye and hopped on a plane to join eight strangers at a beach house in a town I’d never heard of. I was headed to Stinson Beach, California, with the Send It Foundation to surf and mountain bike with young adult cancer survivors – people like me. I … Read more
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