Is crew access allowed on the 100k course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100k course. Crew can reach only the aid stations marked for crew in the athlete guide; check its Aid Stations section for directions. Keep support to the areas around the aid station, and do not block access to it or limit how other runners get aid. Spectators: as many people as you like at the finish.

Are drop bags allowed on the 100k course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100k course. Race gear bags at Sibley and Valle Vista only. No bigger than 14 liters and no heavier than 10 pounds. Marked with name and bib number. Race gear bags return to the finish after Valle Vista closes at 6:15pm (not back before 8pm). A separate Finish gear bag of any size can be left in the Start/Finish area.

Are pacers allowed on the 100k course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100k course. A pacer may join starting at mile 41.07. Pacers are free and must register through UltraSignup; only registered pacers are allowed on the course and they get bibs at packet pickup. Your pacer can join you at Valle Vista (either direction) or Bort Staging Area. Pacers may not mule (carry all your gear and food). Pacers arrange their own transport; no shuttles.

What is the cutoff time for the 100k course?

The overall time limit for the 100k course is 16 hours 30 minutes from the start.

Dick Collins Firetrails 100k 2026: Cutoffs

The course

Where it goes out and back · 18 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Recorded 2026.

The 100k starts and finishes at Lake Chabot's Cove Picnic Area and follows much of the original Firetrails course: out to Lone Oak in Tilden Regional Park and back, with an extension out and back to Rancho Laguna Park. 16 aid station stops; Valle Vista and Sibley support race gear bags.

The race

What this one is

Dick Collins Firetrails is an East Bay trail race with a 100k, a 50 mile and a marathon, held in September through the East Bay Regional Parks around Lake Chabot, Anthony Chabot and Tilden. It is named for Dick Collins, a founder of Bay Area ultrarunning. All three races are UTMB Index events and the 50 mile is part of the Pacific USATF Grand Prix. It is now part of the Bay Area 100 series.

Results go back to 1983. The guide calls it 43 years old. The race was not held in 2020. Ann Trason, a former race director, holds the women's course record.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup firetrailsultra.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No drive.google.com

Deferrals: Yes drive.google.com

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Dick Collins Firetrails Seven stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Steam Trains, mile 31.2, before its 1:45pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 16 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Valle Vista, mile 41.1, warm and fed, and you know you have 22 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Dick Collins Firetrails 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: Yes drive.google.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 41.07 drive.google.com

Muling: Not allowed drive.google.com

Drop bags: Yes drive.google.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Fully Marked drive.google.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: Allowed drive.google.com

Crew rules: Crew can reach only the aid stations marked for crew in the athlete guide; check its Aid Stations section for directions. Keep support to the areas around the aid station, and do not block access to it or limit how other runners get aid. Spectators: as many people as you like at the finish. drive.google.com

Pacer rules: Pacers are free and must register through UltraSignup; only registered pacers are allowed on the course and they get bibs at packet pickup. Your pacer can join you at Valle Vista (either direction) or Bort Staging Area. Pacers may not mule (carry all your gear and food). Pacers arrange their own transport; no shuttles. drive.google.com

Drop bag rules: Race gear bags at Sibley and Valle Vista only. No bigger than 14 liters and no heavier than 10 pounds. Marked with name and bib number. Race gear bags return to the finish after Valle Vista closes at 6:15pm (not back before 8pm). A separate Finish gear bag of any size can be left in the Start/Finish area. drive.google.com

Cutoff philosophy: 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	Lake Chabot Cove Picnic Area NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	3.12
3.12	Marciel Gate None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	○	○	●	4.78
7.90	Bort Staging None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	○	○	●	2.75
10.65	Big Bear None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	○	○	●	5.80
16.45	Pinehurst None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	○	○	●	2.40
18.85	Sibley None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	10:45am	○	●	○	●	3.35
22.20	Steam Trains None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	11:45am	●	○	○	●	4.48
26.68	Lone Oak None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	●	○	○	●	4.47
31.15	Steam Trains None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	1:45pm	●	○	○	●	3.35
34.50	Sibley None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	●	○	●	2.40
36.90	Pinehurst None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	○	○	○	●	4.17
41.07	Valle Vista None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	4:00pm	●	●	●	●	4.56
45.63	Rancho Laguna None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	●	○	○	●	4.57
50.20	Valle Vista None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	6:30pm	●	●	●	●	3.80
54.00	Big Bear None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	7:30pm	○	○	○	●	2.75
56.75	Bort Staging None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	?	●	○	●	●	2.10
58.85	Clyde Woolridge None · basic first aid · Signal wrong?	8:45pm	●	○	○	●	4.00
62.85	Chabot Marina (Finish) NoneSignal wrong?	9:45pm	●	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50 Miler (50.77 miles)
Marathon (26.41 miles)

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.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Official channel

Bay Area 100 YouTube channel (2026 live stream and digital briefing)

Official channel

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

What year? Were you there?

Optional, and it decides nothing.

Your phone company:

Which stops did a text get out from?

Leave a stop blank if you did not try, or do not remember.

100k

50 Miler

Marathon

Your email:

Optional. Never shown.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

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.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

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.

Dick Collins Firetrails

Who's going to Dick Collins Firetrails?

Where it goes out and back · 18 aid stations

What this one is

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

How NavRun helps with Dick Collins Firetrails Seven stations with a clock on each.

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Other distances and other years

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Which stops did a text get out from?

100k

50 Miler

Marathon

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.