Run Rabbit Run 100 (2022)

Race - Sep 16, 2022

Dogs No Dogs

Seeing all that Steamboat and the surrounding areas have to offer. Starting with the impressive ascent of Steamboat Resort, out to the scenic Fish Creek Falls Trail (down & back up) along the Wyoming Trail out to Buff Pass. Through the stunning Spring Creek Trail and off to the legendary Howelsen Hill / Mt. Emerald, then all the way back again!

Follow the Thunderhead Hiking Trail to the ski run known as Heavenly Daze and from there to the Why Not Road. Then join the Chisholm Trail to Four Points Lodge. Take Storm Peak Challenge Trail to the top of the Mount Werner. There will be opportunities to filter water shortly after you descend down Fish Creek Falls Trail. We suggest you have some means of purifying that water.

Join Mountain View Trail (FS Trail 1032). About 6.3 miles from Mt Werner a short steep descent will bring you to the trail junction with the Fish Creek Falls Trail (FS Trail 1102) coming in from the left. Take it. Then proceed down the canyon. Go down through the canyon. It can be very rough and rocky and steep with 25% gradient. Use caution. Go back up it!

Turn around and go back the way you came. Go past the junction where you turned down and follow the signs to Long Lake. From Long Lake continue onward to the Continental Divide Road, which you'll take to the Summit Lake. This is a rolling dirt road with some pretty views. There's lots more up than down. Make your way to Summit Lake. Take Buffalo Pass Road 2.8 mi to Flash of Gold. There are several stretches on Flash of Gold where the trail is marked by rocks and cairns. Then you'll turn left onto a singletrack; proceed down Flash of Gold, along some power lines. Eventually you'll reach a short bushwacking section which will connect you to Buff Pass Road and then a short ways to the Dry Lake Camp Ground.

Head down Spring Creek Trail, which is very nice singletrack, through some very pretty and interesting flora, with wildflowers and jungle-like plants with big leaves. Fifteen bridges take you across bubbling Spring Creek lovely! Near the bottom of the trail you might get a little wet, but after about 5-½ pleasant miles you emerge at Spring Creek Trail and Amethyst Road. Cross the road and join the trail to your left and follow this trail through town and emerge at the intersection of Fish Creek Falls Road and Third Street. Pay attention as you'll be crossing Lincoln.

Find your way to Olympian Hall, you're just about half way!

Find your way to Blackmere and continue up turning left uphill on Little Moab to the Lane of Pain to Ridge Road. Turn right on Stairway to Heaven, descend and turn right on Blair Witch then turn right on to Quarry Mountain Trail, which will take you back to Lane of Pain. From there take Morning Gloria and descend to Lupine then turn left on to Emerald Meadows back to Olympian Hall. This section is the reverse of Section 7 to the Dry Lake Aid Station, up Spring Creek.

From Dry Lake, join the Ditch Trail above the Soda Creek Drainage, turning right at the junction with Grouse Trail 1.3 mi. You're going up, up, up. Pay attention to white painted dash marks and cairns that mark the sections of trail that cross over large sections of granite. Also note that sections of this trail through Grouse Trail are very steep, and there are blind spots for descending bikers.

At about 4.5 miles you'll reach Buff Pass Road; turn LEFT on Buff Pass Road for a very short ways 0.2 mi to Flash of Gold where you'll turn LEFT. After approximately 4.2 miles you'll reach Summit Lake. From Summit Lake head east to the Wyoming Trail (FS Trail 1101), aka the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail. The access on to it is small and a bit vague. Go south on the Wyoming Trail. Stay on the rolling trail, passing through high elevation forests and meadows. After about 7 or 8 mi, you'll reach a 4-way junction take the right back to Long Lake on to Fish Creek Falls Trail, (FS Trail 1102). Veer left when you reach the junction with the Mountain View Trail (FS Trail 1032) and that beautiful Mountain View singletrack up to Mt. Werner.

This is it! About 6 downhill miles to the finish. Down Storm Peak Challenge, past Four Points Lodge, to the Why Not Road, to some singletrack and then to the finish.