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A high mountain race out of the Gould Community Center in Colorado's State Forest State Park, run between the Never Summer Mountains on the northern edge of Rocky Mountain National Park and the Medicine Bow Mountains north of Cameron Pass. There are two distances on two days: 39.2 miles on the Friday and 65.7 miles on the Saturday, and runners who want both can enter the Dirty Double and run them back to back. Long stretches sit above timberline between 10,000 and 12,000 feet, taking in two alpine peaks and four alpine lakes, and the ground runs from jeep and logging roads to bomber alpine trail to boulder fields and shin-deep mud. A 100km finish inside 24 hours qualifies for the Western States 100 lottery.
Gnar Runners first ran Never Summer in 2015, and 2026 was the twelfth running. The course has been tweaked several times, most significantly in 2020 and 2021, and has been essentially back on the original line since then. In 2024 the first cut-off was moved off the Diamond Aid Station and up to the North Diamond Summit so every runner would get more guaranteed time on course.
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