Day 35 · Planned
Bone Marrow Awareness Day — Quilcene
Quilcene, Jefferson County, WA
Quilcene: time to learn about donation
This day on the route
- Planned date
- The day
- Awareness Day
- Planned walking
- No planned route miles
Day 35: planned Awareness Day in Quilcene, with no planned route miles. Public meeting details must be confirmed separately.
The eighth planned Awareness Day remains in Quilcene. No route miles are scheduled between the Discovery Bay approach and the next stage toward Brinnon.
Quilcene receives a planned educational pause after the chapter’s longest walking stage. The itinerary keeps the day in the same community, beside the river-and-bay landscape described in the arrival story.
Questions about donation can be practical and personal: what is involved, what further assessment is needed and whom to contact about a health condition. NMDP distinguishes joining the registry from the later steps that may follow selection for a patient. The registry’s current guidance supplies those details and explains the different donation methods.
JBF’s purpose is to introduce the subject and help readers reach the official source. Jeana’s connection comes from her granddaughter’s experience, told in the foundation’s full Jada and Torsten story. The personal story and practical guidance offer two ways into the subject: why Jeana walks and what someone considering registration needs to know.
The next planned walking day is 12.6 miles to Brinnon. Keeping this day in the schedule recognizes the educational work as part of the campaign, without counting it as walking mileage.
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.
United States — NMDP
NMDP accepts new registry members who are 18 to 35, live in the US, its territories or freely associated states, can meet NMDP’s health guidelines, and are not already registered through another US organization. Joining happens at home: you answer a few questions on NMDP’s site, they mail you a free cheek-swab kit, and you swab and send it back. Once you are a member you stay listed until you are 61 unless you ask to be removed — 61 is when NMDP takes you off, not an age at which you can join. NMDP makes the final eligibility decision.
Check the listed age range
NMDP — Join the registry · checked Sep 1, 2026
Prefer to text? Send JADA to 61474 and NMDP will take it from there.
Browse all official registry options
Eligibility rules can change. Confirm the current requirements with the official registry before joining.
Give to the Jada Bascom Foundation
Choose a symbolic amount or enter your own in Givebutter. Your donation supports JBF’s work wherever it is needed most.
Sponsoring a mile, a day or a stop is a way of describing a gift to the Jada Bascom Foundation. It does not purchase anything on the route.
$100.00 is a suggested amount. Confirm or change it in Givebutter.
Sources
Local history and background reading for this stop.
- Quilcene National Fish Hatchery: about us — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Blood stem cell donor questions — checked Sep 5, 2026
- Jada, Torsten and the reason for the walk — checked Sep 5, 2026
