Team Pressed Hamms — Racing for Native Trout
Picture this: the green flag drops at Staunton State Park, the crowd roars (okay, it's mostly our friends and some confused hikers), and team Pressed Hamms rockets off the line — on foot, fly rod in hand, cold beverage at the ready. Welcome to NASCARP, the Davis Ponds Cup, where two "drivers" take turns running two-mile laps through the Colorado foothills, stopping mid-lap to catch and release a fish at the Davis Ponds before refueling with their beverage of choice. It is exactly as unhinged as it sounds. Beneath the pit-shirt and the NASCAR theatrics is a genuinely important mission: every dollar raised goes directly to native trout conservation projects through Running Rivers, a Colorado-based nonprofit that has raised over $650,000 for native fish and their habitat since 2014. Colorado's native trout need people willing to fight for them, and it turns out that some of those people also want to run uphill in a NASCAR pit shirt while drinking a cold one. We're those people. Team Pressed Hamms would be deeply grateful for your support. .