Hungry Bear 2025 Giving Back
As organizers of the Hungry Bear, we charge a minimal fee to cover permits, porta-potties, insurance, and other event expenses. The remaining funds are donated back to promote the community that hosts us, as well as other causes that fit with our support of cycling now and into the future. For 2025, we will again support the Cable Volunteer Fire Department and other community-based organizations like CAMBA, The Steve Tilford Foundation, Regional Hospice, LCO Schools Scholarship, Unruly Women and other local non-profits and worthy causes.
We are very grateful to everyone in our extended Hungry Bear family for their support by paying the fee to race/ride, for embracing the Spirit of the Hungry Bear, and for coming up north. This shoulder season event gives local businesses a nice bump to start the summer.
Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Association (CAMBA) is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit organization, and is responsible for the development and management of a regional mountain bike trail system of over 130 miles, and over 200+ miles of gravel routes. CAMBA grooms over 70 miles of trails for winter riding. The CAMBA trails lie in and around the beautiful Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest as well as Bayfield and northern Sawyer County Forests – nearly a million acres in which to ride your mountain bike or your gravel bike. Trails are based in the towns of Bayfield, Cable, Hayward, Namakagon and Seeley.
The Cable Fire Department is an all-volunteer department that provides 24 hours a day, 7 days a week fire and rescue services to the Town of Cable. The fire department’s primary jurisdiction is the 72 square miles that make up the Town of Cable. Cable Fire Department also provides mutual aid assistance to its neighboring fire departments.
Unruly Women believes that when we are empowered in outdoor spaces, the independence and confidence gained will inevitably trickle into all areas of our lives, giving us the courage to pursue whatever our heart desires. So many of us are disconnected from ourselves and nature.
By participating in different adventures, you’ll learn a variety of wilderness and sport-specific skills in an environment where you can feel safe to discover your most authentic self and embrace all of it.
FLCF envisions the Lincoln Community Forest and Marengo River within as a community asset that is rigorously managed throughout to ensure a healthy, sustainable and scenic forest, to protect its natural and historic character that provides in the South Unit a small network of primitive trails where the visitor general public can enjoy nature-based recreation and education, and that preserves the North Unit in a largely undeveloped state.
Regional Hospice Services & Palliative Care offers programs to support patients where they live. Our care team supports the patient’s individual wishes for physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Hospice is an approach to care that emphasizes quality of life for patients with a terminal illness, where the goal of treatment is pain management and symptom control.
The Steve Tilford Foundation was created to honor the life and legacy of cyclist Steve Tilford. We exist to pay Steve’s passion for cycling forward. Our mission is to help young people of all backgrounds find and chase their passion through the sport of cycling by promoting education, mentorship, and access to quality cycling opportunities.
“I just like riding my bike. I like riding it with friends, meeting other riders, or just alone, checking out the surroundings. There is no better speed to absorb your surroundings than on a bicycle.” -- Steve Tilford
It’s great to have events like this to help us raise money for new uniforms and equipment. Our mission is to enable students to enter the global society with the knowledge, skills, habits, and attitudes required to be contributing citizens.
Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School shall endeavor to provide its students a comprehensive, bilingual, and bicultural community-based educational environment. This environment is designed to incorporate the wisdom and beauty of the Ojibwe heritage along with the knowledge and skills to succeed in our modern technological society.The Midewiwin Code for Long Life and Wisdom is the cornerstone on which our educational system is built and shall serve as the guiding light as we move toward the future.
The Cable Recreation Park, located west ½ mile west of downtown Cable, includes ball fields, a basketball court, a skate park, tennis and pickleball courts, a bicycle skills course, and a concrete pump track. Other amenities include a picnic shelter, playground, and a walk-in, tent-only campground.