Salt Creek 24

Salt Creek 24 Registration is OPEN and Big News for 2025!

Peninsula Adventure Sports is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Rain Bear Running Club to bring you this year's Salt Creek 24. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Rain Bear Running Club, a group known for its passion, expertise, and dedication to fostering a vibrant running community. The Salt Creek 24 has always been about celebrating endurance, adventure, and the stunning beauty of the Olympic Peninsula, and this partnership will take it to the next level.

With three event options, this all-day, all-night event has so much opportunity to get you on your feet, challenge you and provide you with scenery you won’t find anywhere else! Located at the Salt Creek Recreation Area in Port Angeles, Washington, runners and/or walkers will circle the park on a 1.3 mile route for 24 hours either solo, part of a relay team or as a Last Runner Standing (see event details for description of each event). While racing, individuals will be treated to expansive views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, towering evergreens, vivid green moss and ferns, along with a bit of World War II history! 

While the clock will be running for 24 hours, this event is designed to allow athletes to challenge themselves by their own design – they can lap the course when they want, as many times as they like. Run or walk the whole 24 hours? That’s fine. Any other number of hours is fine too, in any configuration. You can go on and off the course as you please. Have a certain mileage goal? Just do that! You may stop at any time if you decide you have had enough fun. Training for another race? Awesome!

What’s included in your race registration?

1. A fully stocked aide station, including special featured treats during the toughest night hours! Food to fill your belly and volunteers to cheer you on and fill your soul!
2. A first come, first serve area for runners who plan to circle the park continuously to set up their own aide station/canopy. (This area will be LIMITED and is intended only for those racers planning to take breaks of less than 1 hour.)
3. What is a race without SWAG?! We’ve got that part in the bag. Let us surprise you!

THERE WILL BE PRICE INCREASES AUGUST 1 AND OCTOBER 1, SO DON'T DELAY!

CAMPING

We recommend reserving a campsite at Salt Creek Recreation Area as soon as possible. If the campsites sell out, don't worry! We will be working with the park that all racers that want to come will get one of the First Come First Serve campsites, or an alternative camping space for the event. Also, if you do plan to be on the course for the entirety of the race (stops no more than an hour) - you do not need a campsite, you can stage out of your vehicle or set up a 10x10 pop up canopy to have as your staging area.

How to participate in Salt Creek 24 as a Fundraiser

Fundraising as a part of Salt Creek 24 is OPTIONAL, but we are excited to offer this opportunity for anyone who wants to participate. How does it work? Take a look at our Step-by-Step Guide to becoming a fundraiser. We have a number of established Charity Partners that you can choose from, or you can choose your own charity. If you want to choose your own charity, please contact us at rainbearrunning@gmail.com with the contact name and email address of your charity (you will need to contact them to see if they are interested first!) and we can get them set up as a choice before your register.

REFUND POLICY
* There are no refunds allowed and no deferrals to future years races.
* Transfers are allowed until 3 days before the race.
* If we are forced to cancel for any reason, runners will get a free transfer to the next year, or an 80% refund
* During the registration process, you will have the chance to purchase refund insurance (unavailable for Canadian racers
- rules of the insurance company and not us or RunSignUp), which will allow a full refund if you are unable to attend the event due to several covered reasons including accident, illness and family emergency. Full insurance information at: https://help.runsignup.com/support/solutions/articles/17000133083-what-is-protecht-regshield-

Fundraising as a part of Salt Creek 24 is OPTIONAL, but we are excited to offer this opportunity for anyone who wants to participate. How does it work? 

• During the registration process, choose the Fundraising option in the drop down for your chosen Event.
• When you get to the Fundraiser part of registration, choose a charity (more on that below) and customize your fundraiser information. You can also go back in after you finish registration and customize your fundraising page as much as you want!
• As you recruit donors, their donations will go directly into the bank account of your chosen charity - either right away if the donor gives an up-front donation, or later if they make a pledge per lap completed by you or your team.

We have a number of Charity Partners that you can choose from, or you can choose your own charity. Our current Charity Partners are:

• Peninsula Trails Coalition (Olympic Discovery Trail)
• North Olympic Land Trust
• North Olympic Healthcare Network
• 4PA
• Olympic Medical Center Foundation
• Seattle Children's Hospital
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
• Ainsley's Angels - West Sound Chapter
• Atlas Free
• Old Dog Haven
• Peninsula Dispute Resolution Center 

If you want to choose your own charity, please contact us at rainbearrunning@gmail.com with the contact name and email address of your charity (you will need to contact them to see if they are interested first!) and we can get them set up as a choice before your register.

After you have created your fundraiser, start sharing! Donors can give a set amount right away, or they can make a pledge per lap completed. If you want to collect pledges per lap, you will need to go into your registration, click on Fundraiser, then Pledges, then Enable Pledges before going out to collect pledges. With pledges, after the race we will enter your laps and an email will be sent to your donors for them to complete payment. You may want to estimate your number of laps for your donors, or your team laps if you are on a fundraising team. Each fundraising person and team captain will have a fundraiser dashboard in RunSignUp under their registration, and can monitor their progress!

You might find the following videos / articles from RunSignUp helpful (and their customer support is excellent as well - info@runsignup.com)

• Becoming a Fundraiser
• Manage Your Fundraiser
• Create / Join a Fundraising Team
• Manage Your Fundraising Team