Bachelor Ascent
50K · 31 miles
Ran · this year's race is done.
Race dateSeptember 12, 2026
Start8:00am
When42 days ago
Who's going to Bachelor Ascent?
Free. You can start with nothing.
Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this.
Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.
Distance
The race
31 miles
High point
not checked yet
Time limit
not checked yet
Finish rate
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The course
Where it goes
loop · 7 aid stations
Three clockwise loops on Mt. Bachelor, each starting and finishing at the West Village staging area. Loop 1 summits the 9000' peak, up the east side and down the west side. Loop 2 circumnavigates the volcano. Loop 3 is a mid-mountain loop up to Pine Marten Lodge.
Broad and smooth dirt singletrack, steep punchy doubletrack, and exposed, sometimes scrambly, technical volcanic rock trails. Trekking poles are allowed, with cautious and courteous use.
The race
What this one is
A trail running event at Mt. Bachelor Ski Area in the Deschutes National Forest, 20 minutes west of Bend, Oregon. Three loop courses of 50K, 28K and 16K and a Vertical 5K all start at West Village and climb on Mt. Bachelor's volcanic alpine terrain, with each distance ascending to the 9000' summit.
Getting in
Getting in
Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.
- Lottery
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- Lottery opens
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- Lottery draw
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- Field cap
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- Registration
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- Qualifying
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- Minimum age
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- Transfers
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- Deferrals
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Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding
How NavRun helps with Bachelor Ascent
Two stations with a clock on each.
You are running it
You reach West Village, mile 10.2, before its 11:00am cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.
An arrival time for all 5 stations, worked out from your own training.
Start free →
You are deciding
You find out Bachelor Ascent is months of work away, not years, and you start.
Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.
No account needed →
Crew access, pacers and drop bags
The rules that shape your day
Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.
- Crew allowed
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Yes
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- Vehicles per runner
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not checked yet
- Pacers
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No
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- Muling
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not checked yet
- Drop bags
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Yes
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- Cupless
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Yes
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- Course marking
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Fully Marked
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- Night running
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not checked yet
- Dogs
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not checked yet
- Headphones
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not checked yet
- Crew rules
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Crew are welcome at Aid Stations #1, 2, 4 and 5 and the finish area. Pine Marten (#1 and #5) is reached by hiking up the course or by buying a lift ticket for the Pine Marten lift. West Village (#2 and #4) is the staging area. Crew and spectators must follow race rules and directions from event officials, Mt. Bachelor staff, medical personnel and aid station captains.
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- Pacer rules
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not checked yet
- Drop bag rules
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Drop bags are available at West Village aid stations #2 and #4, and it must be the same single bag. Smaller than a 20L day bag (shoe box size), durable water-resistant material, under 5 lbs. Label with name, race, bib number and aid station location. Forgotten bags are not shipped or delivered.
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- Cutoff philosophy
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not checked yet
Aid stations
Every stop, and what you get there
● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race
| Mile |
Station |
Cutoff |
Crew access |
Bag |
Pacer |
Med |
To next |
| 0.00 |
Start - West Village
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? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
5.70 |
| 5.70 |
Pine Marten
|
? |
● |
○ |
? |
? |
4.50 |
| 10.20 |
West Village
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11:00am |
● |
● |
? |
? |
8.10 |
| 18.30 |
Outback
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? |
? |
○ |
? |
? |
5.00 |
| 23.30 |
West Village
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2:45pm |
● |
● |
? |
? |
3.20 |
| 26.50 |
Pine Marten
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? |
● |
○ |
? |
? |
4.50 |
| 31.00 |
Finish - West Village
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5:00pm |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
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What it looks like out there
Somebody has been out there with a camera
the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.
Nobody has been out there with a camera or a microphone yet. A gap means nobody has found it, not that it is not out there. Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send us the link.
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What you know
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Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.
Where this came from.
Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 53 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
27% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.
Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.
Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.
No account, and nothing to cancel.
What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.
I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.
