2,021 HOURS
for the Planet
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Share and support local organizations, submit volunteer hours and track our progress!
About the Project
We all love the outdoors; it’s where we go to play, relax, escape, find creativity, and simply just be. Our presence, no matter the size, makes a huge impact, whether it’s general wear and tear on the trails or that accidental litter of a wrapper falling out of our pack while running or hiking.
Ideally, we should all be contributing time and energy to protecting our playgrounds daily. But since we can’t, for the month of April, we are asking for your concerted effort in volunteering time for trail maintenance and trail clean-up. Trail Sisters has teamed up with Altra Running to present our 2,021 Hours for the Planet project, with a goal to contribute (and hopefully surpass) 2,021 hours of collective trail work.
We’re asking for your help this month, and hopefully, every month. Join us, and help us surpass 2,021 hours of collective volunteer trail work and cleanup. We encourage all participants to share photos and tag @trailsisters and @altrarunning so we can help share the amazing work we are collectively doing.
Together, we can create a cleaner planet.
“We have a deep love for the trail, so we are equally excited to do our part to ensure it is clean and maintained for us all to use. Trail Sisters is an amazing group of women who feel the same as we do at Altra, and to be a part of the 2,021 Hours for the Planet completely aligns with our values of protecting and preserving the trails."
How to Participate
Any and everyone is able to participate in this project! You can volunteer time with a local trail organization, your local Trail Sisters group, or you can conduct your own solo adventure picking up trash along your favorite trails.
Here are few simple steps to get you started:
Step 1.
Decide if you want to volunteer with a local organization, or choose your own solo project!
Step 2.
If partnering with an organization, choose one from our list. If the organization is not listed, please add it!
Step 3.
Volunteer, and don't forget to snap a photo! (Tag: @altrarunning + @trailsisters!)
Step 4.
Submit your hours, activity, and photo.
Participate and Win Prizes
No good deed goes unnoticed or unrewarded! As a thank you for your time and for participating, you will receive discount codes from Altra and Trail Sisters, and will be automatically entered in gear giveaways for the Altra Timp and Trail Sisters Apparel.
Congratulations to our Giveaway Winners!
- Tammy K. in Dearborn, Michigan
- Mia D. in Easton, Pennsylvania
- Aneta Z in Centerville, Ohio
- Worth C. in Tallahassee, Florida
- Julie T in Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Vickie H. in Folsom, California
- Margaret A. in Half Moon Bay, California
- Laura J. in Brunswick, Maine
- Anna D. in Denver, Colorado
- Michelle R. in Dahlonega, Georgia
Project Tracker
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Recently Completed Projects
4 Hours
Madison Caldwell
Asheville NC
Built steps and drainage ditches on the MST
Trail Sisters WNC
4.5 Hours
Laurie Nakauchi
Lakewood, Co
Led trail maintenance on Jeffco Open Space Trails
Jeffco Open Space Trail Runner Volunteers
2.5 Hours
Narissa Ooraikul
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Picked up trash around the River Valley
Trail Sisters
2.5 Hours
Melissa Ireland
MALIBU
Beach Clean Up at Nicholas Canyon Beach
Nature Trust of the Santa Monica Mountains/Malibu Nature Preserve
2 Hours
Melissa Ireland
MALIBU
Trash pick up on highway 1 (PCH) in Malibu
Nature Trust of the Santa Monica Mountains/Malibu Nature Preserve
1.5 Hours
Margaret Abilla
Half Moon Bay, CA
Picked up trash while hiking in a local park.
Resources
Don't see any in your area? Add your local trail organizations!
Submit a Resource
This database of resources will live on our website forever, giving these wonderful organizations the visibility they deserve.
A "resource" is a public or private park organization or other entity that manages land use or access to lands. Only organizations that fit this description will be published.
Completed Projects
2 Hours
Lisa DeNardo
Dickson City, PA
Went out to clean up for a couple hours with my boys picking up trash along the Lackawanna Heritage Trail, a very used walking/running/biking path.
Altra RED Team
2 Hours
Kate McKee
Dryden, NY
Picked up roadside garbage
4 Hours
Kate Mckee
Dryden, NY
Picked up trash while running and walking each day for the week
2 Hours
Tammy Konarska
Dearborn, MI
Picked up trash on the Lower Rouge Gateway Trail
2 Hours
Sara Dzirnis
Dearborn, MI USA
Picked up trash on Lower Rouge Gateway trail
Trail Sisters
1.75 Hours
Laura Ranf
Beaverton, Oregon
Picked up trash along Forest Park trails
1.5 Hours
Shalana Gray
Boulder, CO
Picked up trash around the South Boulder Creek West trail! Pulled a lot of grocery bags, poop bags, and balloons out of the creek.
2 Hours
Jordan Maki-Richards
Tumut, NSW, Australia
Cleaned up illegally dumped rubbish on local shared use trails
Tumut MTB
1.5 Hours
Andrea Love
Glen mills, PA
neighborhood trash sweep
0.5 Hours
Wade Litsety
Denver, CO/USA
Picked up a grocery bag full of trash at Sloans Lake
1 Hours
Richard Kennedy
Denver CO
Picked up trash along the Golden Bike Path
Altra Running
0.5 Hours
Wade Litsey
Denver, CO/USA
Picked up trash at Sloans Lake
2 Hours
Michael Burch
Golden, CO
Altra team pickup!
Altra
1 Hours
Abbey Charles
Indian Hills, CO
Joined a group from work to clean up a local trail!
Altra Running
4.5 Hours
Amanda Roe
Gisborne New Zealand
I picked up trash on the beach and dune trails of my town twice a week in April.
1.25 Hours
Marlene Todd
LAKEWOOD, CO
Organized our Altra Marketing team to pick up trash along the Clear Creek bike path in Golden, CO.
1.5 Hours
Mary Horowitz
Norwell, MA
Picked up trash on our town’s walking pathway
Altra Red Team
1.75 Hours
Marina Rudolph
Superior, CO
Picked up trash and dog poop along Coal Creek Dr dirt road and along Singletree/Mayhoffer trails
2 Hours
Valerie Sanders
Lehi, UT
Picked up trash on Hidden Hollow trails
10 Hours
Amy Egan
US
Pick up trash at Settlers Cabin park
Trail sisters pittsburgh
0.75 Hours
Suzanne Natter
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
We plugged a 3 mile trail loop at South Park and collected about 30 gallons of trash!
Trail Sisters Pittsburgh & South Park Trail Runners
9 Hours
Jen Warolin
Bellingham, WA
Lead 3 work parties removing invasive species along a local in town trail.
City of Bellingham Parks and Rec
6 Hours
Ali Ekman
Milwaukee Wi
Cleaned up one of my favorite local trails with my husband. Then out doing regular pick up in the neighbor road running!
1 Hours
Adelina Zylker
Wrightwood, Ca
Picked up trash on our walk home from school.
1 Hours
Apryl Thunberg
Mooresville, NC
Picked up trash at a local park while running! Mtn bikers often lose stuff without noticing.
4.5 Hours
Bernadette Hurst
Pittsburgh
picked up trash on Mt. Washington
Explorers Club of Pittsburgh
2.5 Hours
Derya Deane
Sterling, MA
Took my kids to clean up around the neighborhood, where we run often.
3 Hours
Laura Hall
Eagle Mountain Utah
Hosted a trail cleanup with 130 people, picked up 3000 lbs of trash. Total hours for all 130 people is 390 hours.
2.5 Hours
Alex Dusseau
Springfield, MO
Local trail pick up day with the Trail Sisters.
Trail Sisters
1.5 Hours
Travis McWhorter
Albuquerque
Picked up trash along a local multi-use paved path in the city!
SWCA Environmental Consultants
1.75 Hours
Sarah Mankowski
Chicago
Picked up trash in the lakefront
Oiselle Volée (Illinois)
0.75 Hours
Margaret Abilla
Half Moon Bay, CA
Today was plastic wrap and bubble wrap day! Yes, I did pop the bubble wrap before disposing of it.
10 Hours
Thea Gavin
Orange, CA
Picked up trash on the first (or last) 20 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.
3 Hours
Sarah Bush
Eagle Mountain, UT
We organized a trail cleanup day for our local trail system. We called it Trail Therapy Day, giving therapy back to the trails that we find therapy on. With over 120 participants, we logged a collective 350 hours!
Lake Mountain Flyers (MTB Club)
9 Hours
Trail Sisters Pittsburgh Members
Pittsburgh, PA
Six TS Pittsburgh members picked up trash at Settlers Cabin on April 26th!
9 Hours
Trail Sisters Pittsburgh Members
Pittsburgh, PA
Six members picked up trash at Frick Park in Pittsburgh on Earth Day!
3 Hours
Janet Canfield
Asheville
Picked up trash
Trail Sisters
3 Hours
Suzanne Byers
Pisgah Forest, NC
Picked up trash in Pisgah National Forest
Trail Sisters Asheville (WNC)
1.25 Hours
Casey Quinn
Chicago
picked up trash on the North Branch Trail! with IL Volee!
Oiselle Volee IL
1.5 Hours
Caitlin Broton
Muskegon, MI
Picked up trash along a mile stretch of Lake Michigan
