Sea-to-Sky Rally Raises Funds for ALS

Deviating from our normal fare of ridiculing the decisions of automakers and skewering bad product choices, we would like to highlight a good news story – a car rally that is raising money for those suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Taking place midway through June, the Sea-to-Sky ALS Rally is an annual multi-day event, taking off from Vancouver and wending its way up the tremendous Highway 99 through places like Kamloops and Lillooet before arriving in the resort town of Whistler. Far from the Bullrun-type rallies which tend to attract crypto bros and assorted hangers-on, the ALS Rally is open to all hands and doesn’t care if you drive a supercar, classic muscle, or JDM icon. There appears to have been a riot of makes and models on tap in past years, from Gulf-liveried Porsches to Audis and the scattered Lambo.

The ALS Rally was founded by Aidan Bate-Smith, a 25-year-old gearhead from Vancouver. His dad was diagnosed with ALS in 2019 and sadly passed away a couple of years later. Now, the Rally is a project for him and others to celebrate the life of his father and create funding for ALS research and treatment. To date, they’ve raised nearly a quarter million bucks and hope to double that amount this year.

Their goal is to continue the expansion of awareness for ALS – wide swaths of the public learned of the illness through that Ice Bucket Challenge about ten years ago – through this annual rally plus other various and sundry automotive activities. Registration is open for this particular event until a couple of weeks prior to the June 10th rally, with participants encouraged to sign up as a team and then seek some donations from their buddies. Hey, there are far worse ways to spend a few bucks.

None of us here have any skin in this game, nor are we tied to the event in any way. We just thought it a car-related good news story, the type which we can all use after a day spent doomscrolling on our devices. 

[Image: Sea-to-Sky ALS Rally]

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