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The Marrow Walk press kit
Available to useJeana Moore’s 337-mile walk around the Salish Sea is for Jada, her granddaughter, and for every patient still waiting for a marrow donor. Forty-five days, ten Awareness Days, one question: would you join an official registry?
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Fact sheet
- Route distance
- 337.1 walking miles
- Stops on the route
- 46
Stories and photos by stop
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Start — Fred Hutch, Seattle
The walk starts where marrow transplantation was pioneered
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, South Lake Union, Seattle, Washington
Steps to Marrow 5 begins in Seattle's South Lake Union, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center campus, where E. Donnall Thomas and his colleagues pioneered marrow transplantation — and where, in 1979, the first successful unrelated-donor transplant for a leukemia patient was performed.
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PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center
PeaceHealth St. Joseph, where a Whatcom County diagnosis begins
2901 Squalicum Parkway, Bellingham, WA
The area's sole community hospital, in PeaceHealth's own words — first opened in 1891 and now 255 licensed beds. Its cancer center is where a local diagnosis of leukemia or lymphoma is worked up and treated. Transplant happens elsewhere.
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Blaine is the last town on the United States side of the route, at the northernmost point of Interstate 5. Day 15 is 7.5 miles, ending within walking distance of the Peace Arch.
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Vancouver General Hospital, West 12th Avenue
Where British Columbia does its bone marrow transplants
Vancouver General Hospital, 899 West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia
Day 20 finishes on West 12th Avenue outside Vancouver General Hospital, home of the Leukemia/Bone Marrow Transplant Program of British Columbia — the programme that cares for adults across BC and the Yukon who need a transplant.
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Sidney, Vancouver Island
The crossing that isn't counted
Town of Sidney Municipal Hall, 2440 Sidney Avenue, Sidney, BC
Day 25 crosses by ferry from Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay. The 8.5 miles credited to it are walked on land at either end, on the mainland and then down the Saanich Peninsula into Sidney. The water in between is not counted as walking.
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Day 30 crosses the Strait of Juan de Fuca on the MV Coho and clears United States customs at Port Angeles, then follows the shoreline east for 4.4 miles. The ninety-minute crossing is a ferry leg and is not counted as walking mileage.
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Olympia — Washington State Capitol
Day 44: the Capitol, and a law about giving something away
Washington State Capitol campus, Olympia, WA
The walking ends at the Legislative Building in Olympia, finished in 1928 and standing 287 feet tall beneath its masonry dome. Inside it, the legislature wrote paid leave for living donors into the state's own employment rules.
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Finish — Bone Marrow Awareness Day, Olympia
The tenth awareness day, and the one thing the walk cannot do for you
Olympia, WA
The last of the route's ten Bone Marrow Awareness Days, in Olympia. No miles. Jeana Moore stays put and talks — about donors, about transplants, and about how and why to join a registry. Nothing gets signed here.
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Campaign photos
Editorial illustration of Jeana walking a dawn road beneath a luminous constellation of blood-forming cells for The Marrow Walk.
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Sources
- The Why: One Stranger Said Yes, and I Kept WalkingVerified August 1, 2026
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