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Out-and-back from the ski area base over Mount Werner, along Mountain View and Fish Creek Falls trails to Long Lake, on to Base Camp Trailhead and Dumont Lake, then up Grizzly Creek Road to a card-punch turnaround at the base of the Rabbit Ears rock formation on Rabbit Ears Pass, before retracing the entire route back to the finish at the ski area base. One start wave (plus an over-60/over-50 Early Bird option); no Hare/Tortoise split and no prize money on this distance.
A genuine out-and-back: every aid station except the Rabbit Ears turnaround (no aid, card-punch only) is visited twice, and 'sequence' rather than station name is the identity for the outbound/return pairs. Section-by-section leg mileages in the manual's prose (e.g. '6.0 miles' Start-to-Werner, '6.8 miles' Long Lake-to-Werner-return) do not always sum exactly to the official mile chart's cumulative figures embedded in the same manual (6.4 mi and 5.8 mi respectively for those same legs). First climb to Mount Werner gains ~3,500+ ft in about 6 miles. No total elevation gain/loss figure for the 50-mile course was found published anywhere (unlike the 100 mile, which publishes 20,391/20,391); not recorded rather than estimated.
Two ultramarathons (50 mile and 100 mile) starting and finishing at the base of the Steamboat Ski Area in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, on trails of the Routt National Forest crossing Buffalo Pass and running past Fish Creek Falls, Long Lake and (100 mile only) Emerald Mountain and downtown Steamboat. The 100 mile race runs two divisions from different start times: Hares (competing for prize money, 1 PM start, 30-hour cutoff, no pacers) and Tortoises (9 AM start, 36-hour cutoff, pacers allowed from designated points).
The Run Rabbit Run 50 began in 2007, started by Fred Abramowitz as a charity run benefiting northern Colorado kids and causes; Betsy Kalmeyer designed the original 50 mile course (since changed). Paul Sachs became co-race director in 2008. The 100 mile race, run in Hare/Tortoise divisions and offering the highest purse of any 100-mile trail ultra in the world, began in 2012. Since 2012 the race has donated almost $700,000 to northern Colorado non-profits.
| Mile | Station | Cutoff | Crew access | Bag | Pacer | Med | To next |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.00 |
Start/Finish (Ski Area Base)
6,900 ft
|
? | ● | ● | ○ | ? | 6.40 |
| 6.40 |
Mount Werner
10,372 ft
|
? | ○ | ○ | ○ | ? | 6.80 |
| 13.20 |
Long Lake
9,850 ft
|
? | ○ | ○ | ○ | ? | 5.20 |
| 18.40 | Base Camp Trailhead | ? | ○ | ● | ○ | ? | 3.90 |
| 22.30 | Dumont | ? | ● | ○ | ○ | ? | 2.70 |
| 25.00 |
Rabbit Ears Turnaround
10,500 ft
|
2:30pm | ○ | ○ | ○ | ? | 2.70 |
| 27.70 | Dumont | 2:30pm | ● | ○ | ○ | ? | 3.90 |
| 31.60 | Base Camp Trailhead | 4:00pm | ○ | ● | ○ | ? | 5.20 |
| 36.80 |
Long Lake
9,850 ft
|
5:30pm | ○ | ○ | ○ | ? | 5.80 |
| 42.60 |
Mount Werner
10,372 ft
|
7:45pm | ○ | ○ | ○ | ? | 7.40 |
| 50.00 |
Finish (Ski Area Base)
6,900 ft
|
9:00pm | ● | ● | ● | ? | ? |
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