Sasquatch Skedaddle by Backcountry Squatters

Backcountry Squatters Nonprofit will be hosting their 7th annual community run event remotely, from September 17, 2025 to September 21, 2025. This event is completely VIRTUAL this year so that you can run from ANYWHERE while supporting satellite events and board member teams! 

Sign Up Closes September 16th at 10 am.

Sign up for a team! 

We aim to create awareness of this organization within our nation-wide community and further our mission of creating and cultivating a community network dedicated to supporting college-aged women and nonbinary folks in the outdoors.

Our nonprofit board members are hosting satellite run events across the country. Whether you can run with them or support them from afar make sure to sign up for your board members team when you register!

Buy a T-Shirt!

Commemorate the 2025 Skedaddle and support Backcountry Squatters Nonprofit with a custom t-shirt, long sleeve, or hoodie! We are proud to share that this year our designs were created by Backcountry Squatters member and Artist, Sarah, from Cal Poly. Click the link above or search Backcountry Squatters on Bonfire to find our store front.

Who We Are

In 2015, Backcountry Squatters began as a club at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. Dedicated to supporting women in the outdoors, the success of the club was immediate and requests began coming in from college campuses nationwide wanting to start their own Backcountry Squatters club. In order to serve more communities, some of the original members of Backcountry Squatters created the non-profit organization (501c-3) in order to facilitate and continue growing a network of college communities. Since the nonprofit’s founding in November of 2018, Backcountry Squatters has spread to seven other college campuses across the United States.

Why does it matter?

Backcountry Squatters chapters are an inclusive environment where members can explore their own strengths and the power that comes from adventuring with other women. These communities allow women to freely push the boundaries of what they perceive as possible for themselves. They are rewriting the discourse so that women don’t feel bound by their size, background, or ability.