Below are the Ski to Sea Race efforts to decrease it's impact on our local environment. The Green Team of the Ski to Sea Race will work to improve these numbers in 2012. Note: F+ FoodPlus! Recycling is SSC's all-in-one Toter™ service for recycling yard debris, compostable/biodegradable/food-soiled paper.
Shuttle Up!!
Try the newly expanded Ski to Sea shuttle system in Bellingham this year. Two separate routes:
- WWU (C lot by the Rec Center) to Fairhaven;
- Downtown (Boundary Bay) goes to Zuanich (Coho/Roeder Dr.) or Fairhaven (12th & McKenzie).
Shuttle departs from each location every 15 minutes from 11:00am - 8:00pm (Except Zuanich, last shuttle leaves at 6 pm). Last shuttle departs Fairhaven at 8:00pm to WWU & Downtown.
Link to Shuttle Up! stops in Google Maps >>>
$2 for an unlimited ride ticket for the day. Exact change only please. Tickets can be purchased in advance at Boundary Bay, Whatcom Events, Downtown Partnership, and Village Books starting May 16th. Tickets will be sold day of at these shuttle stop locations: WWU C Lot, AND Downtown (in front of Boundary Bay)
Shuttle Up! service provided by Airporter Shuttle/Bellair Charters and The Baker Bus


What Happens to the Green Fee Funds?
The Green Fee helps offset the environmental cost of carbon emissions by putting resources back into our local area. The Ski to Sea is working towards a Zero Waste event. All Green Fee funds will be donated to local groups working toward environmental health. In 2010, racers contributed over $3,000 toward the Green Fee which is a phenomenal response. Thank you racers for helping to keep Whatcom County a great place to live and recreate. Please see notes below on how the Green Fee will be allocated in 2011.
This year the funds raised be being "green" will be distributed as follows:
- 1/3 of Green Fee funds will be given to the Whatcom Land Trust for land acquisition along the Nooksack River; as a recipient of the 2010 Green Fee, $1,200 was allocated toward land acquisition along the Nooksack River.
- 1/3 will be given to Whatcom Sustainable Recreation for the promotion of sustainable events.
- 1/3 will be given to the Girl Scouts of Whatcom County who greatly contribute to the success of event recycling by serving as the Recycle Monitors on race day; as a recipient of the 2010 Green Fee, $1,200 was allocated to participating troops and they used these funds to help promote their programs.
Thank you for helping this event and our community stay green!
As of April 27, 2011, the teams below
have donated to the Green Fee. Thanks!
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Adventures NW--the Borgias Kids Race, Play, Experience
Ain't No Mountain High Enough!
Alcoa Inc
Alpha Dogs
Amazing Race Application Attempt No. 1
Amorous Lahars
An Old Guy and Friends
Anchor Steamrollers
Are We There Yet?
Asses to Ashes
Athletic Deficit Disorder
Aw-Shucks Son, I Up Chucked a Nut
Bad Czechs
BAGELRY
Bank of the Pacific
Barleans
Be Local Bee Team
Beamer Family
Beartrax!
bellingham ultimate frisbee team
Betty Rockers
BI Toe Jammers #1
BI Toe Jammers #2
Bio Bug
Blitz
Boats and Hose
Boomer's Drive-In
Boomer's Drive-In Mixed
Boss Construction
Boss Construction II
BOUNDARY BAY BREWERY
Bring Back WWU Football.Com
Brit. line for Vietnamese noodles
Build Me Up
Bullpasture
Burning Bunions
Car Free-- Banana Sluggs
Cascade Flyers
Certin to be Hurtin
Checkmate Pawn Loaners
Cheeses of Nazareth
Chuckanut Valley Vet Clinic (THE NUT)
City Gym
Click Go
clippercanoes.com
Coast to Coast
Colossal Ambition
Cool Canucks
Covert Ops
Criterion Athletic
CrossFit X
Crowd of Cynics
C-Sweet
Dalynators
DBOM Squad
Deep Cove Outdoors
Depends on Marty
Desolation Angels
Don't Panic Dads!
Dot's Happy Hikers
Drug Court
Dudeasaurus Rex
Egregious Eagles
Eight is enough
Enger Management
EPIC!
Erin Baker's
Escape from Orcatraz 4000S Quattro
Essential Ten
Everett Pulp and Tissue - We're on a roll
Evolve
Exxel Pacific
Exxel Pacific Rec
Fairhaven Bike & Ski
Fairhaven Fitness Ferocious Females
Fairhaven Runners
Family Circus
Family Thing 2
Fanatik hot-Flashes
Fasterest
Floundering Salmon
Fluttering By
Flying Squirrels
ForestEthics
Fractured Hiker
FreightTrainofFun
Full Nelson
FUNion
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Fustercluck
Gang Greene
Gardner Mountain Goats
Gigador
GRUBS PAIN PARADE
Heath Tecna 2
Here 4 Beer
Hertz So Good $#@!
High Expectations
Higher Plane Cabinets
Hilarious
Hoka Hey
Hot Pockets
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Immanuel Lutherans: Race by Grace
In Health Seattle
Interfaith Healers
It Only Hurts the First Time
It's the Water
JHS Founders
Jiminy Crockett
John Elway Express
Katie's Cupcakes
Kevin LaFleur Memorial Team
Kicked in the Nooksack
Kiewit-General
Kings of B-ham
Klicks Running & Walking
KPFF Black
Late n See
Law & Disorder
LEEEEROY JEEEENKINS!!
Mac & Mac Electric
Made in the Methow-Mazama Store
Madigan Rehab Warriors
Mamma Mia!
Managing to Maintain
Mas Margaritas
Mass Wasting
MBBC-Drinkers with a Cycling Problem
MCC N ROck
Mighty Rulers
Moomba
Moore Sharp Heckrodts On the Way
MorningWood
Moss Adams
MOUNT BAKER CLUB
MRSAnaries
MRSAnary (Mostly) Men
Muscle Confusion
Nitropaced
No Frills
NOLS PNW
Nomads
Nooksackulous
Not Our First Hill
Not the Team to Beat
Odin's Army
Off Constantly
Old Farts Young Tarts
Oly Roller and the Bremelos
OOO-UM-GOW-AH
Orange Drink
Our Fathers
Out For A Wicked Good Time
Pepper Sisters
Phosphorescence (Team AQ)
Pickle on a Stick
Pioneer Post Frame, Inc.
Pleiades Nebulosity
Proof is in the Puddin'
Prototype NUS
Puddle Jumpers
Qantas Airways
quattro
Ralf's Pretzel Bakery - Car Free
RAMROD
Ringo Death Starrs
Rip Chicks
Rock Hoar
Roosevelt Mathletes
SACRED HEARTS
Saggy Bottom Girls
Sasquatch Athletic Club
Scrambled Leggs & Achin'
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time....
Sehome Diner
Seven Broken Legs
Shake and Bake
Shhh...it's the Librarians
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Sisterhood of the Traveling Ibuprofen
Skagit All Stars
Ski to Seaman
Skizzy to Seaazy fo Reaazy
Sleepy Cheetahs
Slow Cookers
Slow Kids at Play
SODOlicious
Something Clever
South Whatcom Fire Authority
Spaceman Spiff and the Wild Zontars
Sparflies
SSC You Call, We Haul
Still looking for a sponsor
Sub Prime
Surfrider
Sweep The Leg
Team Arryve
Team Awesome
Team Bongstrong
Team Deinonychus
Team Eclectica
Team Janicki
Team Jogo Crossfit
Team Lagom
Team Liquid Bread
Team Univera
Tesoro's Finest
The An-villains
The Barelies
THE BIG STICKY DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS
The Conquerors
The Costco Dogs
The Dream Team
The Dukes of Haphazard
The Hangovers
The Iron Maidens
The Joneses
The Locust Rundgrave Band Ski to Sea Race Team
THE MOO CREW
The Real Housewives of Whatcom County
The Snowline Fighting Snails
Theme Team
This Won't Hurt a Bit
Throng of Champions
Tiger Bloods
Tippy Canoe and Tyler 2
To Be Determined
Tony's Demons
Toplinx One
Trailhead BHAGs Don't Need Nooksacks
Tri-Lambs
Trotting Wild
troutsmen international
Two Cubed To Finish
Unmitigated Badassery
Unorthodocs
VanDammage
Venus Envy
W.D.F.A.
walkonwater skimboards
We are Family
We Used to Be Good
Well Hung Jury
We've Got Wood
When's Dessert?
Wicked Pickett
Wild Women of Whatcom
Wood Stone
Zooming Zebras
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Waste Reduction
Improved Recycling
We are offering recycling and composting at ALL our Ski to Sea racing events. That means you’ll find the distinctive recycling and composting containers at all locations on Race Day. We’ll have "Roving Recycling Toters” throughout the crowds—so if you’re confused where to put your plastic bottle or paper cup, you have someone to ask!
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You can see our success in reducing the waste generated in 2009 by 2/3 on recycle & garbage bin pictures.
Thank you Girl Scouts for monitoring stations and making our recycling efforts a success! Most of your Race and Festival waste will be recycled or composted, reducing the amount of waste racing to a landfill.
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Best Way to Carpool Up The Mountain
One Team Scenario - MOST COMMON
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Vehicle #1
X-C Skier, Downhill, Runner & Road Bike
1.X-C skier, downhill, runner & road bike all ride up to the mountain in Vehicle #1 driven, by support staff.
2.Road bike is dropped off @ DOT w/ a comfy chair and book and snacks.
3.After snow events Vehicle #1 comes down mtn w/ x-c skier, downhill & picks up runner @ DOT w/ all biker’s stuff left @ DOT.
4.Drive to the next race station to cheer on team.
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Vehicle #2
Canoers, Road Biker
1.Vehicle #2 drives canoe & canoers to start line in Everson.
2.Vehicle #2 is driven back from Everson by road biker.
3.Road bike drives to Hovander to pick up canoe & canoers when they arrive.
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Vehicle #3
Kaykers
1.Vehicle #3 drops Kayaker at Taylor Dock or Boulevard (paddle to start), then parks car near Finish Line in Fairhaven. Or paddler could park in Fairhaven, paddle leisurely to start at Squalicum. Or paddler could park car in Fairhaven and take the shuttle from Fairhaven to Zuanich Park.
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No Vehicle Needed
Mt. Biker
1.Mtn. bike rides to Hovander to get their "warm up" in.
2.Mtn. biker rides from Squalicum to Marine Park, rendezvous with team.
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Find Carpool Buddies Online
Click Here to Post a Carpool Message
You can also find carpooling buddies online with the help of our "Ski to Sea Message Board.” Once you are registered for the Message Board, you can go straight to our CARPOOL topic, and type in what you are looking for in terms of ride. It's that easy. Folks who are also looking for carpools will see your message. Remember to leave a way for readers of the Message Board to contact you.
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Extreme Carpooling
If you're into Extreme Carpooling, download the PDF document and get some tips from the Green Team.
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