"Corrales Ditch Run to honor life of experienced hiker" KOB4 News

"Corrales Ditch Run to honor life of experienced hiker" KOB4 News

The Kiwanis Club on Sept. 19 will host the Corrales Ditch Run in partnership with an organization raising money for search and rescue.

Dave Gives Back honors Dave Cook, a husband and father of three who, in 2016, went to Colorado to climb a 14,000-foot summit. Dave, an experienced climber who previously scaled similar peaks, however, did not come home.

Family of Missing Hiker Launches Search & Rescue Awareness Campaign, “Dave Gives Back”

The Family of David Cook announces the launch of the “Dave Gives Back” Search & Rescue Awareness campaign. It is a beautiful effort resulting from a tragic event that affected not only the Cook family, but the broader New Mexico and Colorado communities.

ABQ Journal Article: Missing hiker’s family finds a way to give back to searchers

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When we lose someone we love, grief is a path lined with friends and family offering their hands, shoulders, ears, thoughts and prayers that often cannot reach beyond our darkness and our numbness, so, at times, it feels our journey is traveled very much alone.

Maureen Cook of Corrales has been on such a journey since September 2016 when her husband, Dave Cook, set off on what was to be a happier journey of his own high into the iconic Maroon Bells in the Elk Mountains near Aspen, Colorado, and never returned.