Latest Patch News & Updates
2023 Race, Trek & Event Schedule
7:00- TREKKERS Start starts at Camp Pok-O Pillars 8:30 or 9:30- RUNNERS Start at Camp Pok-O Pillars 9:00- HALF-SPRINT Start at Camp Pok-O Pillars 10:30- KINDER-SPRINT Start at Poke-O-Moonshine (See full schedule)
Guardians, Chaperones & Parents
Guardians, Chaperones & Parents: Please see an important letter, outlining event policies regarding racing, trekking and visiting minors.
"WOW" Volunteer Day
Patch Sprint Weekend is more than a great race and fundraiser on Saturday. It also is an opportunity to give back to our generous hosts at Camp Pok-O-MacCready...
May Day for Participants
The end of April deadline has passed for Patch Sprint participants to receive refunds. Should anyone need to drop out between now, and event weekend, they may request for their race fee to be added to their donations, for which they will be receipted...
BEAST 2023: Listen to the Music
t’s another year for BEAST (Best Ever Awesome Sprint Training) and for 2023, we celebrate music. Each week will see a different genre of music, So, slap on your earbuds, punch in your playlist, and find out all about BEAST 2023...
Five Successful Winter Finishers
In late December, five Patch veterans - Katie Moffett, Pam Gonzalez, Dave Durant, Ken Ryba and Tom Moffett successfully completed the winter Patch. Hikers had until March 21 to...
Over $14k Raised for ADK Scholarship
Our 188 racers, trekkers, volunteers and friends contributed a total of $11,222 to our beneficiary, Adirondack Scholarship Foundation. And once expenses for the event were factored in, an additional $3000+ was also allocated, making for a total of $14,570!
Remarkable Rookie Racers
For the second consecutive year, a pair of first-time Patch Sprinters captured top honors in the men's and women's open racing divisions. (Watch video)
2022 Patch Sprint Predictions
"With more and more elite and unknown racers entering the Patch Sprint every year, projecting the winners is tougher than calling the Kentucky Derby! This is the 23rd year that USA oddsmaker...
Mandated Routes
With ever-changing topography, trail re-routing, logging and unpredictable weather, the traditional Patch course has changed many times in the past 35 years.
The BEERS went DOWN easily!
Elite runners and race rookies A.J. Beers (Manlius, NY) and Pandora Down (Willsboro, NY) took the overall championships. Both completed an impressive double, as Beers captured last year’s Pond Sprint, while Down set a women’s course record in the winter sprint, earlier in 2021.