RUN ACROSS
MISSISSIPPI
Feb. 1 - 28,
2021
172 Miles of
Northern
Mississippi
Short Film coming soon!
Donate to help it be seen!
After running 210 miles across Minnesota, Mikah followed the Mississippi River down to the
Magnolia State for 172 miles across what his Instagram voted "America's Most Homophobic State"
Learn how it went via Mikah's Instagram daily updates, the story that appeared Front Page statewide via Mississippi's largest newspaper,
or watch the Tupelo newscast below to see how the LGBTQ-inclusive Outside Safe Space was shared across "America's Most Homophobic State"!
From February 1 - 28 Mikah ran 172 miles across the entire state of Mississippi to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in outdoors culture (more at Adventure Pride). Even during COVID's pre-vaccine restrictions, this socially-distanced project found a way to take viewers on a journey across the rolling hills of Northern Mississippi: From Elvis' Birthplace to Ole Miss, and finally to the River that gives the state its name!
The journey was documented by filmmaker Derek Dodge of Hulu's "Hurley," and made possible in part by the Philip N. Knutson Endowment for Lutheran Campus Ministry
- Follow my socials to see daily, live updates along the journey, along with updatse on when the *new* film about the experience is coming to a theater near you!
- Get your own Outside Safe Space symbol (click here or image)
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See my route above!
1. 32 miles from the Alabama border to Elvis' Birthplace in Tupelo
2. 60 miles to Ole Miss University in historic Oxford
3. 78 miles through northwest Mississippi past the Tunica Casinos, ending in Arkansas on the banks of the Mississippi River
4. Celebrate the completion just up river while "Walking In Memphis" with my college home and community
