Carl Johnson Memorial 5k at Great Glen Trails

Pinkham Notch, NH—On Saturday, March 15 at 1:30p.m., Great Glen Trails will host the Carl Johnson Memorial 5k cross country ski race to benefit the ALS Foundation. Carl Johnson, a great friend to Great Glen Trails and a lover of all things skiing passed away in 2006 of ALS.

The Carl Johnson Memorial 5k is a fun race with prizes for loudest tights, mystery time (guess your time) and fastest skate and classic time. The $8 race entry goes entirely to the ALS Association. The race will also feature an ALS benefit raffle for a handcrafted, wooden vessel made by Great Glen Trails Ambassador Ed Good. Last year, in its inaugural year, the event raised $460 for ALS research.

Registration will be held the day of the race at Great Glen Trails.

For more information, click here or call 603.466.2333.

About ALS:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed. Yet, through it all, for the vast majority of people, their minds remain unaffected. There are currently no treatments that fully reverse the affects of ALS nor is there a cure.