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Outdoor adventure event management and promotion company

02/01/2025

Happy New Year from all of us at DK 🎆 Wishing you more cat-like energy and riding dirty in 2025 🥂

30/12/2024

Welcome to the Dirty Kitten Winter Training Series 5.0 Prologue!December 30, 2024 - January 5, 2025*NOTE: All Prologue challenges & activities are optional. Think of this as a "warm-up" before the real shenanigans begin. No points will be awarded...or maybe they will...we'll see (TBA). Snowy can be....

25/12/2024

Happy Howellidays & Meowy Everything from all of us at Dirty Kitten HQ 🐾🎁🎄🕎❄️🎉

11/12/2024

We know this is belated…

CONGRATS to Jody Fleming our 2024 Ride For It x HiFi Wheel Giveaway Winner 🥳 You are the recipient of a new, custom DK Hootenanny23 gravel wheelset from our friends at HIFI Cycling 🎉 Check your email for deets!

Thank you to everyone who donated to our Ride For it fundraising campaign to support To Write Love On Her Arms. 💙 We raised a little over $2K in donations this year for the cause.

01/12/2024

reg is open!!!!!!!!!! Don’t miss out on early bird reg ($35) today only 🙀

Let’s do this ➡️ www.bikereg.com/dirty-kitten-winter-training-series

29/11/2024

THANK YOU from Dirty Kitten 💜 Take $5 OFF all DK merchandise in our online store (including pre-order items)

Use code: DKTHANKYOU24

'Tis the season of gratitude. We want to take a minute to THANK YOU all for the love & support you've shown us over the years. Dirty Kitten is more than just a brand, a business, a team, and events. It’s a community; a family of people who lift each other up. We want to continue that mission into next year and hope you will join us. As a small token of our appreciation, we are offering $5 OFF any merchandise in our online store (including pre-order items) through Monday, December 2, 2024.

Shop Now: https://www.dirtykittengravel.com/merch

25/11/2024

20/11/2024

Got questions about DKWTS and Strava? 🙋 Stay tuned for an email (going out to past participants) and a post in our group on FB with info about important updates and changes coming 🔜

07/11/2024

2024 Grand Fondue Tees are available in our online store 👕 Grab one: If you didn’t get it at the event, weren’t able to attend but still want to show your support, or just need another t-shirt (you can never have too many tees!). Proceeds will be donated to Heartly House 💙

Super soft, cotton-poly blend, unisex sizing (XS - XXL) by Special Tees. Artwork by local Frederick artist, Louanne Welgoss. Shipping included. Select "Local Pick-Up" at check-out) if you live in the Frederick, MD area for pick-up at Bike Doctor Frederick.

ORDER HERE 👉 www.dirtykittengravel.com/product-page/2024-grand-fondue-tee

01/10/2024

Introducing DK 🎉 FUN FRIDAYS 🎉 through October!!! Why? Because it sounds like a cool idea and this is the month of dressing up in ridiculous outfits (Halloween, duh!!) 👻

Here’s the deal: Post or send in a photo every FRIDAY this month of you in your “Fun Shirt” of the week and enter a chance to win a free entry into our upcoming Winter Training Series (DKWTS) 😺

All info is in the graphic below along with a weekly theme schedule because you know we LOVE a theme 👇

🌺 10/4 - Hawaiian Shirt Day
🐾 10/11 - Pawsitive Shirt Day
🐱 10/18 - Animal Shirt Day
🍁 10/25 - Flannel Shirt Day

ℹ️ Post your look each Friday in October, tag and use

06/05/2024

Basecamp Frederick Lodge is open and ready to book for Spring, Summer, and Fall 2024 🏡

Basecamp Frederick Lodge

18/03/2024

Word on the gravel is that DKGR reg opens tonight and we’ve got something new in the works: Deluxe Supreme Purrito Adventure 🙀

www.bikereg.com/dirty-kitten-gravel-race

25/02/2024

“Welcome to the ultimate gravel cycling experience, brought to you by Mid-Atlantic Gravel, Travel & Dirt. Join us for a gravel lover’s dream ride through the beautiful countryside and green forests of northern Pennsylvania. This five-day tour includes four days of supported riding, plus catered meals shared with fellow cyclists and plenty of opportunities to relax and explore local history and culture.”

✔️Women’s Weekend: May 30th - June 3rd
✔️GRUSK Takeover: June 5th - June 9th

https://graveltraveldirt.com/index.php/gtd-pennsylvania-gravel-adventure

🚨Early bird pricing ends March 1, 2024

25/02/2024

06/01/2024

Every year, we contribute to various organizations, groups, and non-profits in our area, where we host events, and around the country that we believe do good things to support people in the community 💜

This past year in 2023, we were able to make donations to a number of groups thanks to our event participants, team members, and supporters 🙏

💟 To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) To Write Love On Her Arms.

💟 Boys & Girls Club of Central Virginia Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia

💟 SAFE - Services to Abused Families (Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange, and Rappahannock Counties)

💟 Culpeper Area Mountain Bike Organization (CAMBO)

💟 MidAtlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts (MORE) Mid Atlantic Off Road Enthusiasts - MORE

💟 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

💟 Heartly House - Frederick Heartly House

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We know this is belated… CONGRATS to Jody Fleming our 2024 Ride For It x HiFi Wheel Giveaway Winner 🥳 You are the recipient of a new, custom DK Hootenanny23 gravel wheelset from our friends at HIFI Cycling 🎉 Check your email for deets! Thank you to everyone who donated to our Ride For it fundraising campaign to support To Write Love On Her Arms. 💙 We raised a little over $2K in donations this year for the cause. #twloha #rideforit #rideforhope #youarenotalone

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“Go where you feel most alive” - Unknown

OUR STORY: Dirty Kitten Productions (a division of CFH Adventures & Events, LLC) is an event management and promotion company owned by wife-husband duo, Alex Forte and Chris Howell (Frederick, Maryland). It began with a joint dream--“We wanted to create a business around the things that we love: cycling, traveling, community, and adventure.”

Parent company, CFH Adventures & Events, was born out of this concept: “It’s not just a business; it’s a lifestyle.” Alex (a former middle and high school teacher) handles the day-to-day operations of the business and works part-time as a sales associate at a local bike shop, as well as races for and manages an elite women’s cycling team while Chris has a full-time job as a software engineer and does his own racing. The two began their business as an “experimental side-gig” when Alex started considering options outside of her teaching profession. Having grown up with a father who owns his own music talent agency, she had both experience with and knowledge of the business. Meanwhile, Chris wanted to use his software expertise to do something different and interesting outside of his usual work environment. The couple put their heads together and came up with a plan.

Everything came to fruition in late 2018 and started with a single, marquee event: The Dirty Kitten Gravel Race (DKGR) set for the following August in Rapidan, Virginia. What began as a car trip discussion turned into a “crazy” idea that morphed into something real. DKGR was launched in early 2019 with registration opening February 1st and the inaugural event selling out 3 weeks in advance. That was just the beginning...

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.” - Jon Krakauer

“We thought it would be a hit, but we didn’t realize it was going to be that popular. It was promoted as a gravel road race with multiple 20-mile laps along gravel farm roads on private property in Central Virginia. Our main focus in promoting the event was sharing the experience with our participants. DKGR isn’t just a gravel race; it is an adventure, a journey, a quest. That’s what makes it so enticing. As human beings, we long for adventure. Life is really just one adventure after another. We wanted to create an event that would allow people to share in that adventure, that experience, with one another.”

Following the success of DKGR, other folks started reaching out to Alex and Chris for help with their events. The business couple soon realized that people needed and wanted help so they decided to expand their business to include event management and promotion services. The purpose, goal, and mission of Dirty Kitten Productions is to assist people in finding their own adventures. “Our events are always going to be 100% us. What that means is we put 100% of ourselves into the planning, management, and ex*****on of our events. That’s what makes CFH Adventures and Dirty Kitten Productions so unique. We won’t create or assist with an event that we don’t believe in and wouldn’t do ourselves. In fact, one of our guiding principles is to only be involved with events that incite joy and excitement. If something doesn’t excite us, it’s going to be hard to get others amped on it.”

Looking ahead, Alex and Chris have many ideas and goals for their business. This year (2020), Dirty Kitten Productions will be hosting 2 major events:

Cat Camp: Women’s MidAtlantic Spring Cycling Weekend (April 2-5, 2020)

Dirty Kitten Gravel Race 2.0 (July 25, 2020)

As well as the possibility of a few other, smaller events and assisting with some in the area. “We would like to get more involved with our community here in Frederick, as well as in the MidAtlantic Region as a whole. There are so many great cycling and adventure events that could use help, and we are definitely interested in offering our services. There are also some ideas that we have been throwing around for other, new events and it would be cool if we could get some of those off the ground in the next couple of years. Who knows, maybe we will start a race series. There are so many options! The sky is the limit!” For now, they aren’t sharing any of their ideas so stay tuned for more #ridedirty endeavors.

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Dirty Kitten Productions

“Go where you feel most alive” - Unknown

“The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.” - Jon Krakauer

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” - Jack Kerouac

AND RIDE THAT GODDAMN BIKE!!