From The Mineral County Miner (Toni Seffens):
The High Country Hustle began as a school project for 17-year-old Forrest Getz from Creede. When he contacted Heather Messick and told her he wanted to organize the walk, she decided to co-organize the event with him. Getz and Messick both spoke to the participants about the worldwide Live Earth project and the global water crisis…
Former Colorado Senator Lewis Entz and Mike Gibson of the Rio Grande Headwater Restoration project also spoke at the event. Race participants walked from the Creede Ball Park to Airport Road then down to Deep Creek Bridge. The hustle was organized in conjunction with The Live Earth series of 6k run/walks taking place over the course of 24 hours in 150 countries across the world.
The 6k distance is important because it is the average distance many women and children throughout the world walk every day to secure drinking water.
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