Gurnee dad, his daughter set sights on climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to celebrate his 60th and fatherhood
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.Layne Pollard, right, carries weights while training with Alex Santiago during a workout session at Fit Nation on June 6, 2023, in Gurnee. Pollard and his daughter Jorie plan to hike to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
For the past six months, Layne and Jorie, who lives and works in Denver, have been training — with Layne walking steeper inclines on treadmills four to five times a week, working on balance, core strength and upper body strength with a trainer, and with Jorie running once or twice a week and doing long and short hikes on weekends and after work.“The hike is six continuous days, so if we do 8 miles one day, we’ll probably be doing 7 the next,” she said.
Layne instilled his love of the outdoors in Jorie, and Jorie said she and her dad are looking forward to taking her 3-year-old nephew on his first hiking adventure when he is old enough. But the Pollards come to it instinctually. Layne’s father,, climbed to 14,700 feet when he hiked Mount Everest in Nepal in March 2016.
Jorie can relate. She starting attending overnight camp at 8 years old and continued until her late teens. She said that’s where she truly found her love of the outdoors. With her parents’ encouragement, her adventurous side has thrived. She bought her dad a shirt from Melanzana Outdoor Clothing to keep him warm on the mountain as a Father’s Day gift.
“The goal is the summit,” he said. “If I have to push myself, I will push — as long as altitude sickness is not involved. The tour guides are not going to let you push through that. It’s too dangerous. But if it’s body aches, that’s mind over matter. At that point, that won’t stop me. God willing, we’ll get to the top and we’ll be home on Father’s Day.”. What started as something the Pollards didn’t think was that big of a deal is now something special because everybody else thinks it is.
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