UPDATE – JUNE
Remote Challenges Announced!
Remote Challenges
Donate your efforts to a competitor and receive a chance to win a Rogue Rower, Rogue Echo Bike, or an Eberlestock Frame & Pack and entry to the Crooked Butterfly “Wicked & Wild” Event.
UPDATE – May
Athletes & Veteran Competitors Announced
Each year we provide a Peer to Peer fundraising opportunity to our competitors to help us raise essential programmatic funding while also increasing Big Fish awareness.
In return we offer points per every $50 raised to each competitor to go towards their overall event score and also a special gift.
Click on their unique portal link to help them reach our goal.
Donations to Individual Competitors will be eligible for our general prize give-away schedule.
Veterans
Brock Torre – USCG
Kevin Marshall – NAVY
Leif Lindstrum – USMC
Marshall Thompson -USCG
Steven Bell – ARMY
Zach Standeford – USMC
Special Celebrity Competitors
Kelly Murphy
Stefi Cohen (coming soon)
General Prize Give-Away Schedule
Our generous partners & sponsors make it possible to give away special prizes to random donors at various donation thresholds. Donations above a lower threshold are eligible for the lower threshold random give-away prizes. The number in ( ) is the number of gifts we have to randomly present.
$1000
Custom Big Fish Branded Half Face Blades throwing Hatchet (x2) ($1500 value)
Rogue Fitness Echo Bike (x1) ($950 value)
$500
Diesel Day event + 1 year subscription to The Hard Way Project (x1) ($2000 value)
Rogue Echo Rower (x1) ($900 value)
Big Fish Commemorative Bourbon + Leather Wrapped Whiskey Glasses (x1) ($250 value)
$250
Eberlestock Frame & Pack (x1) ($700 value)
Rogue Fitness Gift Card $500 (x2)
Rogue Fitness Fat Boy Sled (x1) ($200 value)
Ice Age Meals Gift Card $200 (x1)
$100
Eberlestock Frame & Pack (x1) ($700 value)
1 Year Subscription of O2 Hydration Drink (x1) ($500 value)
Entry to the Crooked Butterfly “Wicked & Wild” Event (x1) ($500 value)
Rogue Fitness Gift Card $250 (x2)
Ice Age Meals Gift Card $200 (x2)
$25
1 Year Subscription of O2 Hydration Drink (x2) ($500 value)
Entry to the Crooked Butterfly “Wicked & Wild” Event (x1) ($500 value)
Rogue Fitness Gift Card $250 (x2)
Ice Age Meals Gift Card $150 (x2)
Big Fish Annual Challenge t-shirt (many)
We’ll be updating more prizes in the short weeks to come. We will also be including prizes in this give-away that aren’t won by competitors & volunteers onsite.
Remote Challenges
Three opportunities to participate remotely and earn points for a competitor of your choosing:
#1 Rowing
Increments of 2500 meters & $25 will award a competitor points and enter you in a drawing for a Rogue Rower.
#2 Biking
Increments of 25 min & $25 will award a competitor points and enter you in a drawing for a Rogue Echo Bike.
#3 Rucking
Increments of 2.5 miles w/ 25+ lbs will award a competitor points and enter you in a drawing for an Eberlestock Frame & Pack and an entry to the Crooked Butterfly “Wicked & Wild” Event.
Remote Challenges will open up June 1st and run into the competition until Saturday June 20th 12p MDT.
Entries in the Remote Challenges will not be eligible for our general prize give-away schedule.
ANNOUNCEMENT – MARCH
7th Anniversary Challenge & Fundraiser
Registration /Application Now Closed
Each year we bring in 5-6 ‘celebrity’ athletes/personalities and pair them up with a Veteran from each branch of service to take on a 30 hour ‘Ordeal’ that challenges team work, camaraderie, perseverance, problem solving skills, adaptability… all the things we share in common that make us successful against the struggles of life.
We also bring in over 2 dozen Veteran volunteers to participate, support, and enhance the camaraderie during the event. Truly making it a community experience where we forge connections that last well beyond the weekend. Inevitably, the collective wisdom, work ethic, life lessons, and beauty that is shared during this event becomes a catalyst for growth & happiness for everyone and in ways that cannot be deliberately crafted.
The event also serves as the foundation’s primary fundraiser where we award prizes, and generate the majority of our annual revenue that will support the following year’s Veterans programs and events.
Starting Monday, June 15th we echelon in support, staff, & key volunteers. Thursday afternoon is an all hands brief and the event starts Friday the 19th at 9a, concluding on Saturday the 20th at 3p with a giant bbq and social. Departure starts Sunday late morning running into Monday and Tuesday during cleanup.
Participation / Applications
We’ll begin reaching out to ‘celebrity’ athletes/personalities early 2026 and open up the Veteran participation and volunteer applications in January.
Participants will host Peer-2-Peer fundraising through their professional & social networks to raise awareness and essential funding for the foundation. Donations generated through the competitors via P2P will go towards awarding them points during the competition.
Event Sponsors
Each year Rogue Fitness supports this event with incredible generosity and this year will be no different.
The Purpose BBQ will be cooking for us again in 2026.
Smith & Wesson is coming in new this year to bring back the pistol competition… big things coming!
Half Face Blades is customizing branded throwing axes for the competition and give-away prizes.
Nite Watches proud Big Fish Partner & Sponsor coming in from the UK with custom Big Fish Alpha Series Watches.
Harmon Leatherworks as a Big Fish Partner & Sponsor while providing branded merchandise.
Erg Centric provides equipment wrapping and Big Fish Branding.
O2 Hydration supporting event refreshments, product, and give-away prizes..
Crooked Butterfly Ranch for providing the venue and give-away prizes
SignsRx for providing banners and signage.
Signet as a Big Fish Partner providing apparel.
Updates will be posted as available.
Registration not available at this time.
Organized By
Big Fish Foundation
We were founded by Major Brian Chontosh, USMC (ret.). During OIF in 2003, he led the CAAT platoon for 3/5, and his radio call-sign was “Big Fish”.
