This rugged, remote and challenging 50K+ course is run entirely on single-track trails, circumnavigating Mt St Helens. All but 4.5 miles are run on the Loowit Trail. Racers will travel over lava and pumice fields, cross rivers, run through the blast zone as well as through dense forest. In all, the course involves ~6700 ft of elevation gain and loss. This race is part of the Northwest Mountain Trail Series.
Check out videos of the course HERE and HERE
Race Fee: $125 (includes a day NW Forest Service parking pass & Patagonia t-shirt)
Date of Race: Saturday, September 7, 2013
Start Time/Location: 7 a.m. at Marble Mountain Sno-Park
PLEASE NOTE: No transfers to other runners are permitted. Registration can be cancelled for a 50% refund prior to March 1, 2013. No refunds are permitted on or after March 1, 2013.
Registration:
The race is full, but get on the wait list HERE
Packet Pick-up:
You can pick up your bib and t-shirt at the Start/Finish line the morning of the race, starting at 5:30 am.
Post-Race Festivities and Awards:
There will be a BBQ for all participants, families and volunteers. We hope you will stay and enjoy the fun.
The top 3 male/female finishers will receive some very nice products from a few of our sponsors. The male/female winners will also receive free entrance into next year’s race.
Finishers will receive some very nice stuff. There will also be many random prizes that will be given away at the post-race festivities by our great sponsors.
Travel Time to Start/Finish:
Allow 2 hours from Portland and 4 hours from Seattle to get to the Start/Finish at the Marble Mountain Sno Park in the Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument.
Included in the participants race fee is the $5 daily NW Forest Service Pass.
Directions to the Start/Finish HERE
Mt St Helens Volcanic Monument Area Map
Accommodations:
Camping at Start/Finish – The Monument has allowed participants to car-camp the night (Friday) before the race.
City of Cougar (about 30 minutes from Start/Finish and nearest place for buying last minute items)
http://www.lonefirresort.com/
City of Woodland (about 1 hr 15 mins from Start/Finish)
Volunteers:
If you or if you know of someone who would be interested in volunteering, please contact the race directors – Trevor & Todd – at volcanic50@gmail.com
