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Our Charities

Giving back to the community

As a community minded organization, Trail Whisper Race Series believes in giving back to the community. Wherever our events are held, we do our best to support local businesses and local charities. Charities are supported through a presence on our website and through racer, volunteer and supporter donations on our race registration pages. We also run non-perishable food drives for local food banks and donate “unopened” food supplies from our events to local shelters.

Learn more about some of the charities we support.

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North Shore Rescue

North Shore Rescue is a volunteer-driven search and rescue team serving the public—24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Ready to respond when help is needed most.

North Shore Rescue was founded in September 1965, emerging as the Mountain Rescue Group disbanded. The team began as a heavy urban search and rescue unit, originally intended to support Civil Defense in the event of a nuclear attack. Early training covered building reinforcement, welding, nuclear fallout measurement, riot control, firefighting, auto extrication, and first aid.

Today, North Shore Rescue concentrates on mountain search and rescue, helicopter rescue, urban search and rescue, and public education—delivering a life-saving service to the community, 24 hours a day.

Check out the educational information on the 3 T’s of heading outside, outdoor safety, the essentials to bring with you and avalanche information. Try their interactive video to assess your knowledge of takin ga trip into the backcountry.

Please donate when registering for any of our North Shore events – Hallow’s Eve, The Phantom Run, Dirty Duo or Iron Knee/Tender Knee.

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Save Your Skin Foundation (SYSF) is a national patient-led not-for-profit group dedicated to the fight against non-melanoma skin cancers, melanoma and ocular melanoma through nationwide education, advocacy, and awareness initiatives. Save Your Skin Foundation is committed to playing an active role in reducing the incidence of skin cancer in Canada, and to providing compassionate support for all Canadians living with skin cancers.

SYSF was founded by North Vancouver resident and melanoma survivor Kathleen Barnard. In 2003, Kathleen was diagnosed with stage IV malignant melanoma, and by the time Save Your Skin Foundation was established in 2006, Kathleen’s cancer had spread to her vital organs, and her treatment options were limited. Fortunately, one of her sons discovered a trial treatment taking place in Alberta; this trial saved Kathleen’s life.

It started at Dirty Duo… read the story of how the foundation started.

Save Your Skin Foundation is committed to ensuring equal, timely, affordable, and appropriate access to skin cancer treatment for all Canadians, by engaging in public and private industry, health policy, and systemic treatment access issues with cancer agencies, government, and drug-approval bodies across the country.

Look for the Save Your Skin tent at Trail Whisperer events.

Please donate when registering for any of our events.

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Whistler Off Road Cycling Association (WORCA) is Whistler’s mountain bike advocacy group, working with local and regional governments, First Nations, developers, utility operators, private landowners, the community forest and other stakeholders to keep our non-motorized trails open and accessible.

WORCA’s Vision is, “A passionate community connected by sustainable trails and pedal powered good times.”

To meet their Mission, “To foster mountain bike experiences and deliver world-class trails” WORCA as set the following purposes:

  1. Construct and maintain public mountain bike trails in the Whistler area. 
  2. Educate cyclists and others in the safe and responsible use of mountain bikes and of public lands. 
  3. Represent the interests of mountain bikers to governments, business, industry and the news media. 
  4. Provide competitions, training, workshops, courses and other services and activities. 
  5. Undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above purposes. 

Check out their website for more information and watch their video (scroll down the page) about WORCA.

Please donate when registering for our Tenderfoot Boogie trail race in Whistler.

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Empowering Youth to Thrive. ZeroCeiling is all about “creating a Whistler where all youth belong”.

Zero Ceiling work with at-risk youth, using the power of the mountains to empower and support youth in their journey.  Zero Ceiling believes that all youth deserve a safe home, access to opportunities, and a place to belong. Zero Ceiling give youth stable housing, a job, mountain adventures, and the support to sustain it all.

ZeroCeiling is a community of opportunity where youth are given the support they deserve including:

  • Learning, adventure, freedom to export the outdoors.
  • A safe, stable place to call home.
  • Real jobs (employment) with support to help youths build a future.
  • A community with rad people supporting each other to thrive.

Check out the ZeroCeiling website for more information on their programs and the work they do for the youth of Whistler, BC.

Please donate when registering for our Tenderfoot Boogie trail race in Whistler.

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The Canadian Ski Patrol (CSP), a non-profit, charitable organization, is comprised of more than 4,500 volunteers from coast to coast to coast in Canada in 56 zones and nine divisions. The CSP provides first-aid services at 230 alpine and Nordic ski areas across Canada. Last year they provided 40,000 hours of first-aid services at off-snow events including running events, mountain bike races, concerts, etc.

Each year more than one million hours are spent by CSP volunteers patrolling both on and off snow, teaching first aid, developing training materials, keeping our manual current and state-of-the-art and managing the operation of the Canadian Ski Patrol from coast to coast to coast. 

The CSP is about education and safety promotion and industry involvement. They offer an advanced first-aid course which is a minimum of 60 hours in length and includes CPR, AED, and WHMIS training. They also provide on-snow and accident site management training as well as safety education to members. As part of industry involvement, the CSP has members on both national and international ski, first-aid, and rescue bodies.

Check out their website for additional information on the CSP organization.