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The Looking Glass 100k is one large loop through Pisgah, around Looking Glass Rock, starting and finishing at the field across from Davidson River Campground near the Pisgah Ranger Station. It is about 62 miles with roughly 10,500 feet of climbing and the same again down, over several summits above 6,000 feet including Black Balsam Knob and Tennent Mountain. Underfoot is smooth singletrack, technical singletrack, grassy double track, gravel and a short bit of pavement, past waterfalls and moss-covered streams that runners cross. The gun goes at 4:00 AM and the day is 20 hours long.
Pisgah Forest hosted the first Looking Glass 100k in November 2023. The race was run before that as a 50 mile event, most recently in 2019, and Tanawha Adventures brought it back after a few years of absence.
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I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.
