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Route update · September 27

The walk now goes through Tsawwassen, and is back on schedule in Victoria

Jeana had a cold, so the Vancouver stops were canceled and the walk turned toward Tsawwassen. She still went to Vancouver on September 25, for a Canadian Blood Services stem cell drive at the University of British Columbia that CTV Vancouver and CityNews Vancouver covered. She reached Tsawwassen on Sunday, September 27, and held two Bone Marrow Awareness Days there, in the traditional territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation. She took the ferry to Swartz Bay on Wednesday, September 30, and walked through Sidney and Saanichton to Victoria, which she reached on Saturday, October 3, a day ahead of plan. From Victoria the walk is back on its original schedule to Olympia on October 21.

See the route, stop by stopRead Jeana’s journal

Jeana Moore’s departure on The Marrow Walk has been confirmed. The published plan covers 306.2 walking miles around the Salish Sea from Seattle to Olympia to encourage official marrow donor registry registration. Individual arrivals, mileage and the finish require separate confirmation.

Information as of . The published schedule is a plan. Confirmed events are identified below.

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JBF press contact

Jeana Moore

Founder and CEO of the Deer Park–based Jada Bascom Foundation

+1 509-724-9534

Availability unconfirmed

Response hours and walk-day availability have not been confirmed. Interviews are by arrangement; please confirm a time before travelling.

Gathering and walking departure

The public gathering’s scheduled time has passed; its occurrence remains unconfirmed. The walking departure has been confirmed. Originally published times and locations are shown for reference. Confirm current arrangements with JBF.

UW Medical Center – Montlake, 1959 NE Pacific St
Seattle, WA 98195
Public gathering
Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed
Scheduled walking departure (around noon)
ConfirmedConfirmed date:

Fact sheet

Planned walking distance
306.2 miles; ferry water miles are excluded
Published schedule
2026-09-07 through 2026-10-21 (45 days)
Stops on the published route
42
Bone Marrow Awareness Days
10 planned days for conversations without walking
Public gathering in the published plan
September 7, 2026, 9:00 AM Pacific
Scheduled walking departure
September 7, 2026, around noon Pacific
Location in the published plan
UW Medical Center – Montlake, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195

Actual completed walking mileage has not been confirmed in this press update.

The story behind the walk

Jeana Moore, founder and CEO of the Deer Park–based Jada Bascom Foundation, is Jada’s grandmother. She founded JBF in 2009 and has walked thousands of miles across the United States and Europe to encourage people to join their country’s official marrow donor registry.

Jada Bascom was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at one month old. No one in her family matched; she received a transplant at seven months. Her donor, Torsten Huber, had joined DKMS at a donor drive in southern Germany in April 2006, about a year before she was born. The drive was for a local woman with leukemia; he was not her match, but he stayed on the registry. Jeana’s 2012 Baltic-to-Adriatic walk thanked the Europeans who saved Jada. Torsten has joined Jeana for stretches of her walks.

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Interviews and filming arrangements

Interviews with Jeana are by arrangement. A request does not reserve a time or guarantee access at a stop. No staffed media response hours, onsite interview window or hospital filming access has been confirmed.

UW Medicine and Fred Hutch are separate contacts for media access; neither is a host or endorser of this walk. UW Medicine requires an escort or prior authorization for filming inside or outside its medical and health sciences facilities. Fred Hutch requires advance arrangements and a media-relations escort for news visits to its campus; third-party filming has a separate approval process. Contact the relevant institution before attending or filming. JBF cannot grant hospital access.

Route milestones

Dates below are scheduled stops. A past date does not confirm an arrival, an Awareness Day or the finish.

View the published route schedule and event confirmations

  1. Start — Fred Hutch at UW Medical Center, Seattle

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  2. Ridgecrest, Shoreline

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  3. Martha Lake

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  4. Everett

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  5. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Everett

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  6. Kruse Junction

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  7. Arlington

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  8. Bertelsen Winery

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  9. Mount Vernon

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  10. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Mount Vernon

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  11. Blanchard

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  12. Chuckanut Drive

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  13. PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  14. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Bellingham

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  15. Custer

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  16. Blaine

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  17. Elgin, Surrey

    Confirmed

    Confirmed date:

  18. Tsawwassen, Delta

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  19. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Tsawwassen

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  20. Second Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Tsawwassen

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  21. Sidney, Vancouver Island

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  22. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Sidney

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  23. Saanichton

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  24. Royal Oak, Saanich

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  25. Victoria

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  26. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Victoria

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  27. Port Angeles East

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  28. Carlsborg

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  29. Blyn

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  30. Discovery Bay

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  31. Quilcene

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  32. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Quilcene

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  33. Brinnon

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  34. Triton Cove State Park

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  35. Lilliwaup

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  36. Potlatch

    Scheduled time or date has passed; occurrence unconfirmed

  37. Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Hood Canal

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled

  38. Shelton

    Scheduled

  39. Kamilche

    Scheduled

  40. Madrona Beach

    Scheduled

  41. Olympia — Washington State Capitol

    Scheduled

  42. Finish — Bone Marrow Awareness Day, Olympia

    · Bone Marrow Awareness Day

    Scheduled

  43. Scheduled finish in Olympia

    Scheduled

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About the Jada Bascom Foundation

The Jada Bascom Foundation encourages people to consider joining their country’s official marrow donor registry. JBF is a registry referrer: it does not operate a registry, send swab kits, decide eligibility or provide medical care. Official registries handle registration and eligibility. Donations to JBF support the foundation’s work; they are separate from joining a registry.

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Choose where you live

Continue to the official registry that serves you. It decides eligibility, handles registration and contacts you if you may match a patient.

Choose an official registry directly:

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Eligibility rules can change. Confirm the current requirements with the official registry before joining.

The flyer: STOP BLOOD CANCER set in tall letters over a dark plum page, a quote, and a QR code beside a text-to-join line for the U.S.One standing face of the table tent: the same headline and quote on the left, a large QR code on the right.

Take it off the screen

Print it. Put it where people already stand.

A coffee counter, a church foyer, a break room, a race table. Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk, and a number to text for anyone who would rather not scan — no app, no wifi, nothing to hand back.Every sheet carries the code that opens Jeana’s walk — nothing to install, nothing to hand back. The number to text printed beside it is for joining NMDP, which registers people who live in the U.S., its territories and the freely associated states. If you live anywhere else, find your country’s registry.

Everything else for running a drive

Rather be the one at the table?

Host a registration drive at your school, work or place of worship, raise funds, or lend a skill. Tell us what you have in mind and we will help you plan it.

Ways to volunteerHost a registration drive