The 2025 Virtual PCT Expedition

Each participant needs to be on a team of 8-12 people. Every team member needs to register and can do so by hitting the register button above (registration this year opens on January 6, 2025 and closes on January 27, 2025). 

NOTE: The team captain should be the first one to register as they will be automatically assigned the role of team captain and create your team name upon registering. Team captains will be notified of every person who registers under their team name!

 

TO REGISTER:

1. Click on the "REGISTER" button in the upper right corner of the page
2. If you already have an account with RunSignup, log in or select your profile to continue. If you do not have an account, select "add new registrant", fill out the required info along with the Race Registration Password (contact kiana.ramli@pepperdine.edu for this if you don't have the password) and proceed.
3. Review and agree to our acknowledgement and release form
4. Select/create your team
   1. If you are the team captain and creating a team for the first time, select "Create a New Group/Team" and create your team name agreed upon by your group.
   2. If you are a team member registering on an already existing team, select "Join an Existing Group/Team" and select your team name from the drop-down
5. Fill out demographic data questions
6. Select "Sign up for email" and confirm your timezone
7. Complete Registration!!

If you do not have a team organized and would like to be added to one, please hold off on registering and email kiana.ramli@pepperdine.edu to be added to an existing team.

While you are not ACTUALLY hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, you ARE "progressing along the trail" with your team by logging miles you've done by hiking, walking, running, swimming, working out, or cycling... anywhere!

 

Take on as few as 22 miles per week (3 miles per day with a full team of 12 members) to stay on track to complete the 2,650-mile challenge by April 14, 2025!

 

Check out our FAQs section under "Challenge Info" for guidance on how to log your activities!

New this year - we are limiting the types of activities that count for mileage towards the Virtual PCT to the following:

 

Run/Walk/Hike: 1 mile = 1 mile for the VPCT
Swim: 1 mile = 1 mile for the VPCT
Workout/Fitness Class: 1 hour = 3 miles for the VPCT
Cycling: 1 mile = 0.25 miles for the VPCT

 

When you go to log activities, select the activity type and enter in your time, elevation gain (if applicable), and mileage after converting it according to the conversion chart above. 

You will be able to see your progress along the route as you enter your mileage!  Our live map tracking feature will even allow you to see where your rivals are on the map compared to you - now that's some motivation! (see example below)

To view your team's progress on the live map...

1. Click on "TEAMS" in the main menu
2. Click on "Team Results" next to your team's name
3. Scroll all the way down and click on "View Progress on Map"

 

 

Every so often on the trail, we have selected a milestone that each team can reach by a certain date. If your team reaches that milestone by its deadline, your team will receive a custom digital badge (see below!) and be entered into a raffle for the chance to win a prize for that checkpoint (see "FAQs" under "Challenge Info" in the main menu). The more milestones you make it to, the better the prizes become. See below for each milestone's deadline!

1. 2/14 - Sand to Snow National Monument (226 miles)
2. 2/28 - L.A Aqueduct (519 miles)
3. 3/14 - Forester Pass(780 miles)
4. 3/21 - Lake Tahoe (1,080 miles)
5. 3/28 - Mt Shasta (1,500miles)
6. 4/4 - Crater Lake National Park (1,820 miles)
7. 4/11 - Washington Border (2,145 miles)
8. 4/13 - Glacier Peak Wilderness (2,492 miles)

Finish Line: 4/13 - Border of Canada (2,650 miles)

If you have any questions about this challenge, please contact the challenge director at

24255 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA US 90263