Buck 50
Ran · this year's race is done.
Race dateOctober 3, 2026
Start6:30am
When21 days ago
Who's going to Buck 50?
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.
High point
not checked yet
Time limit
The race
12:00:00
Finish rate
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The course
Where it goes
loop · 5 aid stations
The course starts at Camp Chingachgook and follows a dirt path to the Buck Mountain trail, goes over Buck Mountain, then Sleeping Beauty via Shelving Rock/Dacy Clearing Rd, then Black Mountain via Fishbrook Pond, drops to Black Mountain Point on the shore of Lake George, climbs over the shoulder of Erebus Mountain back to Dacy Clearing Rd, and returns over Buck Mountain to finish at Camp Chingachgook.
Four of Lake George's tallest peaks on rugged, remote trails, with 9000 ft of climbing.
The race
What this one is
A 50 kilometer ultra on the shores of Lake George in the southern Adirondacks. The course goes over four of Lake George's tallest peaks on rugged, remote trails, with 9000 ft of climbing, and starts and finishes at Camp Chingachgook.
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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UltraSignup
ultrasignup.com
- Qualifying
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Prior ultra-trail experience is asked of all participants. Relevant experience: recent finishes at ultra distance trail races, or impressive performances at sub ultra or non-trail races.
ultrasignup.com
- 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 Buck 50
Twelve hours.
You are running it
You reach AS 2, mile 14.2, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.
An arrival time for all 4 stations, worked out from your own training.
Start free →
You are deciding
You find out Buck 50 is months of work away, not years, and you go and get the qualifier.
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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- Vehicles per runner
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- Pacers
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- Muling
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- Drop bags
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- Cupless
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- Course marking
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- Night running
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- Dogs
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- Headphones
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- Crew rules
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- Pacer rules
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- Drop bag rules
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- Cutoff philosophy
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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 |
| 6.60 |
AS 1
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7.60 |
| 14.20 |
AS 2
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4.40 |
| 18.60 |
AS 3
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6.70 |
| 25.30 |
AS 4
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| ? |
Finish
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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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Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.
Have the GPX? Send us the link.
We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.
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: 56 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
20% 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.
