My Xtreme Hike Story
Jane Armstrong
Fundraising for 15th Annual Xtreme Hike Massachusetts 2026
Jane Armstrong
Dear Family and Friends,
On Saturday, June 6th, we will once again be participating in the Cystic Fibrosis Extreme Hike sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter of the CF Foundation. This year, Jane will join a dedicated group of hikers to take a 25+ mile long trek through the Berkshires in western Massachusetts supporting this important cause. For those keeping track, this is the 15th Annual Extreme Hike!
As most of you are aware, our daughter Katie has CF. Cystic Fibrosis is something she deals with every day, though we are fortunate that she remains healthy and actively involved in many activities of a typical twenty-four-year-old young woman. Katie graduated from Wiliams College last June and is now teaching at Roxbury Latin (an independent school in Boston) and working towards her Masters in Education at UPenn.
CF remains a daunting challenge for Katie and for us. The disease is a challenging one with no cure yet and unfortunately continues to claim lives way too early.
The continued good news, however, is that meaningful progress towards controlling this disease is in the works. Revolutionary new drugs continue to be introduced with hopes that these treatments will provide the corrector in the CF puzzle and will eventually make CF stand for CURE FOUND!
A few years ago, Katie started taking one of the new medicines, Trikafta from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and it has had a very significant impact on keeping her healthy. She felt a noticeable improvement within days of being on this medicine, her lung function is better than it has ever been and fingers crossed she hasn't had any major health issues. With this medicine and others in the pipeline, excitement from doctors, scientists and caregivers around CF research has never been greater!
Central to this progress is the funding scientists, researchers, practitioners and life sciences companies receive from the CF Foundation. Over the last nineteen years, thanks to your contributions, we have been able to directly contribute over $400,000+ to this cause!!! We remain eternally grateful to all of you for your extremely generous donations!
And we ask, once again, for your support of us and for this cause. It means more than we can express. Whenever we look at Katie, see how healthy she is, and consider the progress made in the fight against CF, we know that our team of family and friends are pivotal in all this.
If you would like to join us in this effort, please click on the link to my personal page below. If you have friends or family members who might want to contribute, please feel free to share our effort and Katie’s story with them. We welcome any and all who would be willing to support this cause.
Please know how grateful we are for your support of our family and of the CF Foundation.
Warmest regards,
Jane and Steve Armstrong
http://fundraise.cff.org/xtremehikema/teamkatiearmstrong
On Saturday, June 6th, we will once again be participating in the Cystic Fibrosis Extreme Hike sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter of the CF Foundation. This year, Jane will join a dedicated group of hikers to take a 25+ mile long trek through the Berkshires in western Massachusetts supporting this important cause. For those keeping track, this is the 15th Annual Extreme Hike!
As most of you are aware, our daughter Katie has CF. Cystic Fibrosis is something she deals with every day, though we are fortunate that she remains healthy and actively involved in many activities of a typical twenty-four-year-old young woman. Katie graduated from Wiliams College last June and is now teaching at Roxbury Latin (an independent school in Boston) and working towards her Masters in Education at UPenn.
CF remains a daunting challenge for Katie and for us. The disease is a challenging one with no cure yet and unfortunately continues to claim lives way too early.
The continued good news, however, is that meaningful progress towards controlling this disease is in the works. Revolutionary new drugs continue to be introduced with hopes that these treatments will provide the corrector in the CF puzzle and will eventually make CF stand for CURE FOUND!
A few years ago, Katie started taking one of the new medicines, Trikafta from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, and it has had a very significant impact on keeping her healthy. She felt a noticeable improvement within days of being on this medicine, her lung function is better than it has ever been and fingers crossed she hasn't had any major health issues. With this medicine and others in the pipeline, excitement from doctors, scientists and caregivers around CF research has never been greater!
Central to this progress is the funding scientists, researchers, practitioners and life sciences companies receive from the CF Foundation. Over the last nineteen years, thanks to your contributions, we have been able to directly contribute over $400,000+ to this cause!!! We remain eternally grateful to all of you for your extremely generous donations!
And we ask, once again, for your support of us and for this cause. It means more than we can express. Whenever we look at Katie, see how healthy she is, and consider the progress made in the fight against CF, we know that our team of family and friends are pivotal in all this.
If you would like to join us in this effort, please click on the link to my personal page below. If you have friends or family members who might want to contribute, please feel free to share our effort and Katie’s story with them. We welcome any and all who would be willing to support this cause.
Please know how grateful we are for your support of our family and of the CF Foundation.
Warmest regards,
Jane and Steve Armstrong
http://fundraise.cff.org/xtremehikema/teamkatiearmstrong
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