This event was a forty-mile relay foot race that began at Western Gateway Park in Penn Valley, routed the racers through North San Juan, over Purdon Crossing onto Lake Vera into Nevada City, through Grass Valley and finished at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Building 4.

A firefighter in helmet and gear holding a tool talks with a man in athletic wear on a roadside path, as runners pass in the background
Cal Fire fire engine number 2382 parked on a forest road
A runner carrying a baton jogs along a tree-lined road ahead of a fire truck

These firefighters need your support to make this a record year again. All donations go to Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation directly supporting the Barbara Schmidt Millar Fund.

Runner carrying a relay baton crosses a finish line tape near a parked fire truck
Back of a black tank top printed with a Smartsville Station 40 fire department emblem showing a skeleton firefighter sitting in a cart amid flames, flanked by a fire hydrant and ladder with an axe, with unit number E2354

Your donations will provide free mammograms & follow up cancer treatment for those in financial need.

A huge shout out to the three participating teams and if you can help them reach their fundraising goal, please donate here.