The Georgia Jewel
Jewel 35 · 35 miles
Ran · this year's race is done.
As checked in August 2026: the Jewel 18 was sold out with a waitlist; Jewel 100 (14 spots), Jewel 50 (10 spots) and Jewel 35 (14 spots) still showed availability. Registration for all distances closes 2026-09-13 at 11:59 PM ET.
Race dateSeptember 19, 2026
Start7:35am
When27 days ago
Who's going to The Georgia Jewel?
Free. You can start with nothing.
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Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.
Distance
35 miles
Climb
5,750 ft
Descent
not checked yet
High point
1,878 ft
Time limit
12:00:00
Aid stations
7
Started
not checked yet
Finished
not checked yet
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course
Where it goes
point to point · 7 aid stations
Point-to-point from the Dry Creek Equestrian Parking Lot to the Dalton Convention Center, sharing its start with the Jewel 50 and running the same return-leg stations as the Jewel 100's back half. Course page: "steady climbs, technical descents" across "runnable and rugged sections of the Pinhoti Trail", finishing through the Rock Garden.
Cut-off pace note: "Must keep at 19min: 57sec mile pace." Average race-day high/low temperature published as 83.3F/60.7F. CONFLICT: the 35 mile finish cut-off is 7:35 pm per the 35 Mile Handbook's own schedule and aid-station chart (and matches its 19:57/mi pace note exactly, 12h00m from a 7:35am start), and is confirmed again in the 18 Mile Handbook's shared schedule table. The 100 & 50 Mile Handbook's own Weekend Schedule table instead lists the 35 miler cut-off as 7:20 pm. The 7:35 pm figure was used as primary because two of three source documents agree with it and it reconciles with the published pace. The official Outdoor Active GPX for this course measures 33.98 mi versus the published 35 mi and 1,097 m (3,599 ft) of ascent versus the published ~5,750 ft, the same mapped-route shortfall pattern as the other three courses.
The race
What this one is
A trail race on the Pinhoti Trail through northwest Georgia, offering 100, 50, 35 and 18 mile distances that share one trail corridor and converge on a single finish in Dalton. Homepage: "The Georgia Jewel is a trail race built on care for the land, the miles, and the people who move through them."
Current race directors Franklin and Jenny Baker "took on" the race in 2016; the site does not state a founding year, and a runner's own 2018 race-recap video ("My Georgia Jewel 2018 Race Recap - First Ultra, First Ultra DNF") shows the race already existed by 2018. An old URL indexed by the Wayback Machine, georgiajewel.com/2019-utmb-qualifier, shows the race was a UTMB qualifier at least as of 2019; no current UTMB/ITRA status is published for 2026, so itra_points and utmb_running_stones is not recorded rather than assumed from that old page.
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
georgiajewel.com
- 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 The Georgia Jewel
Twelve hours, and two stations with a clock on each.
You are running it
You reach Snake Creek, mile 17.3, before its 12:48pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.
An arrival time for all 5 stations, worked out from your own training.
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You are deciding
You find out The Georgia Jewel 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.
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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
georgiajewel.com
- Vehicles per runner
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1
georgiajewel.com
- Pacers
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not checked yet
- Muling
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- Drop bags
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not checked yet
- Cupless
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Yes
docs.google.com
- Course marking
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Fully Marked
docs.google.com
- 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 rules: crew support only at designated aid stations, never at John's Mtn, Stover, or Powerlines. One car tag per runner, one vehicle per runner per crew spot. $5 parking fee at Dry Creek. Aid received anywhere outside a designated crew point is a disqualification: "if you receive aid anywhere other than our designated crew points you'll be disqualified... we mean this with our whole hearts."
georgiajewel.com
- Pacer rules
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not checked yet
- Drop bag rules
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- Cutoff philosophy
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"Runner health and safety is our first priority. Sometimes that means helping you make the choice of living to fight another day. We calculate aid station cut-offs differently than overall time. There are sections we know you'll need to run at a faster pace, to make-up for a tougher section. Please pay attention to the specific AS cut-offs and DO NOT average the overall allocated time."
docs.google.com
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 |
Dry Creek
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7:35am |
? |
? |
? |
? |
7.50 |
| 7.50 |
John's Mtn
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? |
○ |
○ |
? |
? |
3.30 |
| 10.80 |
Pocket Rd
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10:43am |
? |
? |
? |
? |
6.50 |
| 17.30 |
Snake Creek
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12:48pm |
? |
? |
? |
? |
7.20 |
| 24.50 |
Stover
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? |
○ |
○ |
? |
? |
8.40 |
| 32.90 |
Powerlines
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? |
○ |
○ |
? |
? |
3.20 |
| 36.10 |
Dalton Convention Center
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7:35pm |
? |
? |
? |
? |
? |
Same race, other lines
Other distances and other years
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.
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Where this came from.
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