B4BC 2019 Snow Season
Winter Wrap Up
We are thrilled to announce B4BC’s most successful and busiest Snow Season to date! In the past 6 months, we produced 8 Shred The Love events at mountains nationwide, hosted 2 Chasing Sunshine Mountain Wellness Retreats for 20 beautiful young survivors and our outreach booth educated tens of thousands of women and men at 10 major snow events. We are invigorated and inspired by the record number of people we were able to reach and educate over the past few months and the amount of funds we raised. Check out our highlights below!
The Stats
We are so excited to announce that the Shred the Love Series Presented by Suja Organic raised over $70K and our overall winter snow season raised over $100K!
The Series is not only a fundraising tool, but a way to further our mission of peer-to-peer prevention education. This season B4BC educated over 100K on the hill, teaching how to do self Breast Exams and what a potentially cancerous lump may feel like and spreading the word that EARLY DETECTION and a HEALTHY ACTIVE LIFESTYLE is the BEST PREVENTION.
B4BC feels a strong need to give back to local breast cancer organizations in the mountain communities we fundraise in. This year we were able to give back $9K collectively to The Anita Salas Memorial Fund (Taos, NM) and The Breasties (Camelback,PA/Waterville Valley,NH).
Highlights
Taos Ski Valley l February 23rd
$22K Raised
7K Educated
B4BC was once again welcomed into the tight knit Taos Ski Valley community for the 7th annual Bumps Challenge and Paint for Peaks Art Auction. Taos Ski Valley was once again our top fundraising event of the season and we were thrilled to donate 40% of the proceeds back into the community to the Anita Salas Memorial Fund.
Taos Bump Challenge Participants, Photo: Kathleen Harrison Photography
Sierra-at-Tahoe l April 6th
$12,293.21 Raised
8K Educated
B4BC was pleased to be back at our home mountain and partner with 10 Barrel Brewing’s Hella Big Air for the final stop of our Shred the Love Tour. Our largest attended event of the season included a killer park jam, an amazing big air competition and touching tribute ride.
B4BC Team showing self exams at the B4BC Tent, Photo: Andrew Sergeant
Alpine Meadows l March 30th
$11,070 Raised
8K Educated
B4BC teamed up with Sports Basement, the largest outdoor retailer in the Bay Area for a breast cancer awareness day at Alpine Meadows Resort. The day consisted of ski and board demos, a Shred-A-Thon with Suja focused obstacles and a Tribute Ride honoring those who couldn’t be with us that day.
Shred-A-Thon participant hitting a “boob jump” at Alpine Meadows, Photo: Andrea Sergeant
SHOUT OUTS
Big thanks to Copper Mountain for hosting the first Shred the Love of the season and always including us in the Copper community, to Camelback for turning the mountain pink and exceeding fundraising expectations, Waterville Valley- our longest standing east coast event for taking the reigns and hosting a weekend-long awareness event, Mountain High for encouraging a fun filled women’s focused progression session and Grand Targhee for hosting their first Shred the Love event with a super fun pink poker run.
Riding in honor for those who couldn’t be with us at the Copper Mountain Tribute Ride
A participant helping turn the mountain pink at Camelback Mountain
Team B4BC + Mountain Vibes at Mountain High
Choosing the best card at the Grand Targhee 1st ever Pink Poker Run
Winter Outreach Education Events
Education is what its all about and thanks to the support and generosity of our event partners, B4BC’s Check One, Two outreach booth was able to educate an additional +50k people this season at major snow events nationwide. We taught thousands of women and men how to do a self breast exam, what potentially cancerous lumps feel like and the importance of a healthy active lifestyle. A few of our winter partner highlights include:
// Dew Tour Breckenridge
// YES. On Breast Fundraiser
// Mt. Baker LBS
// Burton US Open of Snowboarding
// Super Girl Pro Snow
// International Women’s Day at Copper Mountain
// Pink Vail
// IT’S TITS! At Timberline
IT’S TITS! TIMBERLINE
B4BC joined forces with Snowboy Productions, Jess Kimura and Barrett Cummins for the 2nd annual spring ladies shred, dedicated to having fun and being creative on big mounds of snow shaped like boobs. Krush and his Snowboy Team built a phenomenal park to showcase some of the best and upcoming females in snowboarding and people of all ages and abilities showed up to ride with their favorite ladies and support the cause.
Over $9000 was raised to support B4BC’s education, prevention and survivorship programs.
Photo:Tim Zimmerman
Rider: Kailey Bogart | Photo: Tim Zimmerman
Big Hugs and Thanks!
THANK YOU to our Shred the Love Mountain Partners!
THANK YOU to our Winter Event Partners!
And our Supporting Sponsors!
Yeti
GoPro
The North Face
Enso Rings
Thank you to our many Series Partners for all of your support!
Vans, Union, ThirtyTwo, Coal ,Pow Gloves, Dakine, Wend, Mountain Vibez, Smith, Nixon, Roxy, Growing Young Snowboards, Stance, 686, Nikita, Armada Skis and VonZipper
If you thought this year was big, wait until next year! Thanks to all that supported us throughout the 2018/2019 Winter Snow Season!
