Behind the scenes, Deborah and Brian Bowling made it all happen, and worked at all thirteen Planet Ultra events.

A HUGE round of applause to all of the volunteers listed below who gave their time, energy and cheerfulness for hours on end while working checkpoints or roving SAG. Special thanks to our most frequent helpers - Frank Neal and Doug Patterson, who worked three events, and Judith Gustafson and Lynn Katano, who each worked four. What a team we had in 2005!!!

We also want to thank Steve Born at E-CAPS/Hammer Nutrition, Rick Wilson at Clif Bar, and Eric Gilsenan at CytoSports.

Our heartfelt thanks also go to Janeene Nagaoka for the Heartbreak and Mulholland logos and t-shirt designs; to Jim Poppy for the Solvang and Eastern Sierra t-shirts, the Grand Slam mugs and jerseys, and the King of the Mountains jersey artwork, and to Doug Smith for the Butterfield art, our print ads and website art.

We're forever grateful to Chuck Bramwell for his cheerful enthusiasm for cycling and for his tireless efforts for the California Triple Crown. But most of all, we owe him big time for the many lessons and helpful hints about working with FrontPage and maintaining the Planet Ultra website.

Last, but surely not least, our endless gratitude goes to Charlie Irwin for being incredibly patient and constantly available to help and advise us and share his limitless computer expertise while we continue to learn to work with the website, bulletin boards, slideshows and email newsletters. Charlie also printed all our custom t-shirts and Grand Slam mugs. He's amazing - and we couldn't have managed without him.

Here's the list of 2005 volunteers: