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The 50K starts up Free Knob on the Benton MacKaye Trail and drops back down to Old Dial Road, then climbs to Garland Mountain Gap and Brawley Mountain. It stays on the Benton MacKaye Trail over Bald Top and Tipton mountains to Wilscot Gap on Highway 60, then over Wilscot and Deadennen mountains to Skeenah Gap Road. From there it goes up to the Duncan Ridge Trail and left to the summit of Rhodes Mountain, where runners turn and come back down. A long rolling clay stretch on Forest Service Road 640 gives a break from singletrack. Runners then take the Benton MacKaye Trail back to Wilscot Gap, Forest Service Road 45 to the first aid station, and the trail back to the finish.
Tough, sometimes technical singletrack, small creek crossings, steep climbs and fast descents. The race describes the 50K as 23 miles of the Benton MacKaye Trail, 2 miles of hidden paths and 6 miles of forest service roads. Use caution crossing Highway 60.
A fall trail race in the Chattahoochee National Forest near Blue Ridge, Georgia, with 50K, 30K and 15K distances on the same trails. Runners start and finish at the historic Shallowford iron bridge over the Toccoa River and spend most of the day on the Benton MacKaye Trail: sometimes technical singletrack, creek crossings, steep climbs and fast descents under changing leaves.
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