Is crew access allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course. Runners are allowed to see their crew only at aid stations #3 and #5. No outside assistance is allowed at any other aid station, and runners will be disqualified for receiving outside assistance at any other point in the race. Crew can only assist runners within 30 metres of an aid station.

Are drop bags allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course. One drop bag, at aid station #3. Label it with your bib number and name at the start line on race morning; it is taken out to aid station #3 and back to the finish afterwards. No larger than a shoebox or a very small backpack. Bags must be picked up on site on race day.

Are pacers allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course?

No, pacers are not allowed on the Diez Vista 50K course.

Ultras · CA · BC

Diez Vista

Diez Vista 50K · 50K

On the calendar

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Race dateApril 10, 2027

Duration1 day

Start8:00am

Whenin 166 days

First held1997

Who's going to Diez Vista?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Results Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

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

50K

Climb Our math

4,323 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

Descent Our math

4,531 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

High point

not checked yet

Time limit

not checked yet

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 8 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Year of this file not known.

The start and finish are at White Pine Beach on Sasamat Lake. The route climbs to the Diez Vista ridge, crosses the suspension bridge and floating bridge at Buntzen Lake, runs out to Eagle Mountain Drive and back, and finishes with the Sasamat lakeside trail and the FUG stairs. There is no mandatory gear list.

Roughly 2000 metres of climb and descent on west coast rainforest trails and gravel service roads, with some roots, some rocks, some mud and some nice trail.

The race

What this one is

West coast rainforest trails and gravel service roads around Buntzen Lake, starting and finishing at White Pine Beach on Sasamat Lake in Belcarra Regional Park near Port Moody. The 50K climbs and descends about 2000 metres over roots, rocks, mud and some nice trail, including the Diez Vistas trail it is named for. A 1 km kids race runs the same morning.

Diez Vista is one of the most historic ultras in the country, running since 1997. It was founded by local trail runners to showcase the trails and terrain around Port Moody, BC, and has drawn some of the biggest names in ultra running over its history. Many volunteers have been involved since 1997.

Getting in

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

Lottery: No trailrunning.ca

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: 575 trailrunning.ca

Registration: Other trailrunning.ca

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: No trailrunning.ca

Deferrals: not checked yet

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 trailrunning.ca

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: No trailrunning.ca

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes trailrunning.ca

Cupless: Yes trailrunning.ca

Course marking: Fully Marked trailrunning.ca

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: Allowed trailrunning.ca

Crew rules: Runners are allowed to see their crew only at aid stations #3 and #5. No outside assistance is allowed at any other aid station, and runners will be disqualified for receiving outside assistance at any other point in the race. Crew can only assist runners within 30 metres of an aid station. trailrunning.ca

Pacer rules: Pacers are not permitted. trailrunning.ca

Drop bag rules: One drop bag, at aid station #3. Label it with your bib number and name at the start line on race morning; it is taken out to aid station #3 and back to the finish afterwards. No larger than a shoebox or a very small backpack. Bags must be picked up on site on race day. trailrunning.ca

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
?	Start: White Pine Beach NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?
?	DV Saddle NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	?
?	Buntzen North NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	?
?	Buntzen South Gazebo NoneSignal wrong?	12:35pm	●	●	?	?	?
?	Equestrian Lot NoneSignal wrong?	1:50pm	○	○	?	?	?
?	Eagle Mtn Rd NoneSignal wrong?	3:00pm	●	○	?	?	?
?	Pumphouse Rd NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	?
?	Finish: White Pine Beach NoneSignal wrong?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: Diez Vista Kids Race (1K)

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.

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.

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.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 96 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

32% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
Anything else: [email protected]

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.