The modern-day mailrunner is carrying a packet of letters to Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloski from Mackenzie Delta people concerned about the future of the Peel watershed.
Much of his trip down the Dempster Highway will be in the Peel watershed. He’ll cross the lower river at Fort McPherson and once in the Yukon he'll run through the Ogilvie and Blackstone River valleys.
If all
goes according to plan – and that’s always a bit of a gamble when dealing with
the notoriously stormy Dempster country - he hopes to complete the run and deliver the letters April 22.
Firth,
who was born and raised in Inuvik but later moved to Vancouver, returned to the
North last year to raise awareness about substance abuse. The former crack
addict credits long distance running with pulling him out of the abyss.
Last
year he ran 740 kilometres from Fort Smith to the N.W.T. capital of Yellowknife
in 10 days.
Click
here to track his progress.
Meanwhile
fundraising continues for the Peel lawsuit against the Yukon government filed by two
First Nations and two environmental groups. The trial is set for July 7-11.
They say they've raised nearly half of their $100,000-goal and there are more events planned.
The What
About the Peel? art show by Yukon Artists at Work at their Whitehorse gallery
on Industrial Road opens April 4 and runs to April 28.
The
Yukon Youth Indoor Climbing Team’s Peel Climb-a-thon fundraiser is April 5 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 1307 in
Porter Creek. And the Zip-line for the Peel fundraiser at Equinox Rocks April 12.
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