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Ultras · CA · BC

Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run

37th Annual Knee Knacker
On the calendar
The date is set. Entry has not opened.
Race dateJuly 10, 2027
Duration1 day
Start6:00am
Whenin 257 days
First held1989

Who's going to Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run?

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
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Distance The race
30 miles
Climb The race
8,000 ft
Descent The race
8,300 ft
High point The race
4,000 ft
Time limit The race
10:00:00
Aid stations
11
Started
not checked yet
Finished Our math
191 The race says “Overall results: finish time listed for each finisher (count of rows with a final time)”. We worked this out from that.
Finish rate
not checked yet
The course

Where it goes point to point · 11 aid stations

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

Point-to-point on the Baden-Powell trail across the North Shore mountains, Westport Road start (West Vancouver) to Panorama Park finish (Deep Cove).

Eagle Bluffs, the first climb: 900m of elevation gain in under 5km. Very technical Pacific Northwest rain forest trail; roots slippery when wet; high point Black Mountain peak. Closed course: cutting switchbacks is disqualification.

The race

What this one is

30-mile point-to-point trail run along the Baden-Powell Centennial Trail from Horseshoe Bay area in West Vancouver to Deep Cove in North Vancouver, BC. Entry by random selection; run by volunteers for North Shore Rescue.

Started as a group run with eight participants in 1989. By 1994 the 125-runner limit filled five months out, and a lottery has been used since.

Getting in

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

Lottery
Yes raceroster.com
Lottery opens
not checked yet
Lottery draw
not checked yet
Field cap
not checked yet
Registration
Other raceroster.com
Qualifying
not checked yet
Minimum age
not checked yet
Transfers
No raceroster.com
Deferrals
No raceroster.com
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
not checked yet
Vehicles per runner
not checked yet
Pacers
No kneeknacker.com
Muling
not checked yet
Drop bags
Yes kneeknacker.com
Cupless
Yes raceroster.com
Course marking
Fully Marked kneeknacker.com
Night running
not checked yet
Dogs
Not allowed kneeknacker.com
Headphones
not checked yet
Crew rules
Aid may only be accepted within 30 meters of designated crew-accessible aid stations; stashing supplies on the course is a disqualification. kneeknacker.com
Pacer rules
not checked yet
Drop bag rules
Drop bag handed in at the start (truck by the check-in table), carried to Cleveland Dam for use, then to the finish for pick-up. Small bag. raceroster.com
Cutoff philosophy
Cut-offs are enforced from the first quarter-way mark onwards; Cleveland Dam captain and RD have discretion because it is primarily a safety/medical issue. kneeknacker.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
? Start: Westport Road
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Black Mountain
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Cypress Bowl
NoneSignal wrong?
 9:00am ? ? ? ? ?
? Hollyburn Lodge
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Cleveland Dam
NoneSignal wrong?
 11:00am ? ● ? ? ?
? Skyline Drive
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Mountain Highway
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve
NoneSignal wrong?
 1:30pm ? ? ? ? ?
? Hyannis Drive
NoneSignal wrong?
 ? ? ? ? ? ?
? Mt. Seymour Road
NoneSignal wrong?
 3:15pm ? ? ? ? ?
? Finish: Panorama Park
NoneSignal wrong?
 4:00pm ? ? ? ? ?
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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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.

The page or file on the race's own site.

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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.

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Tell us what is wrong, out of date, or missing on this page. We read every one of these and we will get back to you.

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So we know who we are writing back to.

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Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 143 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.
45% 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.

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.