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

Our heartfelt thanks to all of the volunteers listed below who gave their time, energy and cheerfulness for hours on end while working checkpoints or roving SAG. Without each of them, these events couldn't happen. Special thanks to our most frequent volunteers: Jim Cook, Paul Haussler, John Long, Chuck Phillips, Jon Shellenbarger, Julie Stokes and Timmer Vadheim, who each worked three; Yvonne Hardt, who worked four, and Frank Neal, who worked six events.  What a spectacular team had in 2008!

Three cheers for our creative and talented artists, Jim Poppy, who created the Grand Slam art, Doug Smith, who does our print ads and Hoodoo art, and James Durbin, who designed the new and awesome Red Rock 200 logo. We look forward to taking advantage of their awesome talents again in 2009 (and for as long as they'll have us)! Thank you also to Charlie Irwin for custom printing our Grand Slam mugs, to Irene Reid of Hooray for creating our Hoodoo 500 medals and awards, to Ralph Juarez, Eric Snyder and Roman Gaslan at Voler, and John Handrick at Champion Systems for helping us make our cycling gear great.

As always, we're ever so thankful for the dedication and support of Chuck Bramwell - and for his cheerful enthusiasm for cycling and for his tireless efforts for the California Triple Crown.

Finally, we'd like to acknowledge our major sponsors who donated products for goodie bags, King of the Mountains and Hoodoo 500 winner prizes and raffle prizes in support of Challenged Athletes Foundation: Bicycle Johns, Bonk Breaker Bar, Camelbak, Detours, E-Caps/Hammer Nutrition, Ibex Sports/VDO and Road ID.

Here's the list of 2008 volunteers: