The board of the Mount Baker Bike Club selected new car-free Ski-to-Sea team, Huckleberry Femme, and returning team Carless Whisper to receive support.

The club wants to highlight the role of cycling and encourage more teams to drop the cars in the historic Ski-to-Sea competition. The competition takes place each Memorial Day Weekend and draws participants from local, regional, and national athletes.

Team Name

Carless Whisper

Team Captain

Casey Griesemer

Team members and roles

• XC Ski -Sam Biskup
• DH Ski - Andy Leveto
• Run - Kurt Keller
• Road Bike - Evan Walker
• Canoe - Casey Griesemer/Crystal Williams
• Cyclocross - TBD
• Sea Kayak - Brent Hartwig

Why Carless Whisper is car-free

2024 was our first year going car free, and most of our teams first year doing ski-to-sea. We're hooked. It was cold, rainy, challenging and everything we could have wanted for a shared adventure.

Getting the boat trailer together was hectic, but our design proved worthy enough to transport our boats over 50-miles throughout the county over the course of the weekend. We ended up finishing 3rd in car-free and top 30 overall.

Notably we are one of the few car-free teams that is 100% self-supported. No sherpas, no help from outside sources. We leave no trace and we haul everything we need to complete our leg.

In 2025, our goal is to win the car-free division and come top ten overall. Every athlete on our team lives in Whatcom County.

Read more about Carless Whisper's car-free 2024 Ski-to-Sea run in the Cascadia Daily News

Stay tuned to learn more about our next sponsored team: Huckleberry Femme - an all-women, Bellingham-based car-free Ski-to-Sea Team! It doesn't get more hyphenated than that!