Volunteers Needed for the One Day Hike

Volunteers are needed for the 50th Annual One Day Hike. The ODH is a fully supported event that requires about 100 volunteers to put on and pull off. Volunteers must be enthusiastic, dependable, and hardy—showing up to work on time, regardless of weather. First-time volunteers get a free ODH T-shirt as a small token of appreciation.

Many volunteers are former ODH'ers paying back some of the help they received, and/or are family and friends of a hiker. If you are a veteran volunteer and want to reprise your role or would like to try something different, if you are an interested newbie, or if you just need more information, contact Mike Darzi ([email protected]) about volunteering.

Photo albums of previous ODH's: bit.ly/MikeODHPix.

1) SUPPORT-STATION VOLUNTEERS are needed to man/woman stations that provide food, drink, and assistance to hikers. If you are interested, let us know your preference in terms of time of day and amount of time you are willing to help. The more flexible you are in terms of location and time, the better. Except for the first three stations (through Edwards Ferry), you do not have to stay for a station’s entire period of operation, although that is preferable, and—yes—many volunteers serve at more than one station.

The stations are:

• Old Anglers, 5 to 7:30 am
• Seneca Creek, 7 to 11 am
• Edwards Ferry, 9 am to 2 pm
• Whites Ferry, 10 am to 3:30 pm
• Monocacy, 11 am to 6 pm
• Point of Rocks, 1 pm to 8 pm
• Brunswick, 2:30 to 10 pm
• At Harpers Ferry and Bolivar (5 pm to midnight), where volunteers are also needed to guide hikers along the towns’ route.

If you are willing to take on especially challenging tasks, we need you! Let Mike know.

2) BIKE PATROLLERS are needed to ride their bikes to check on hikers all along the (mostly) unpaved route, providing assistance as needed. Patrollers are needed from about 6:30 am to midnight. Contact Mike, if you are interested or for more information.

3) FIRST AIDERS that can administer first aid to hikers as needed at major support stations. If you have first-aid or medical training, we’d love your help. If you are interested, or for more information, contact First-Aid Coordinator Jason Hauf ([email protected]) or Mike.

To learn more about the ODH, check out onedayhike.org, follow us on Facebook, or join our email list to get official updates by sending a blank message to [email protected].

Year in and year out, volunteers are what make the ODH the great event that it is!