Is crew access allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 50 Miler course. Crew can meet runners at Hogback (mile 20.3), Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37) and the start and finish line at Spainhower Park. Use the race's directions to reach the aid stations, so crew do not congest the course or dust out runners.

Are drop bags allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 50 Miler course. Mark drop bags with your name, bib number and aid station location. Drop bags go to Mother Hill (mile 25.8) and Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37) and must be dropped off at the start location race morning. They are returned to the finish line when the aid station closes and are not mailed out.

Are pacers allowed on the 50 Miler course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 50 Miler course. A pacer may join starting at mile 37. 50-mile runners are permitted one safety pacer beginning at Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37). Pacers need their own ride to Horseshoe Meadows and must complete the remaining 13 miles with their runner. Rides are not provided to pacers who drop.

What is the cutoff time for the 50 Miler course?

The overall time limit for the 50 Miler course is 14 hours from the start.

Ultras · US · CA

Wild Wild West Marathon & Ultra

50 Miler · 50.4 miles

Registration open

Registration is open and closes April 26, 2027.

Race dateMay 1, 2027

Start5:00am

Whenin 189 days

First held1979

Who's going to Wild Wild West Marathon & Ultra?

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 Entry Aid stations Crew access Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance The race

50.4 miles

Climb

not checked yet

Descent

not checked yet

High point The race

6,600 ft

Time limit The race

14:00:00

Aid stations

Started

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Finished

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Finish rate

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The course

Where it goes · 13 aid stations · rust marks a stop your crew can reach

The 50 mile starts at Spainhower Park in Lone Pine at 3,700 feet, runs rugged high desert trails and climbs into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada with views of the Alabama Hills and Mt. Whitney. Steep climbs, rocky descents, a high point of 6,600 feet.

Steep climbs and rocky descents, with a high point of 6,600 feet.

The race

What this one is

The Wild Wild West Marathon & Ultra runs out of Lone Pine, California, through the Alabama Hills and the foothills of Mt. Whitney. Four distances start at Spainhower Park: a 50 mile, a 50K, a trail marathon and a 10 mile. The Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce hosts it.

The race has run in Lone Pine since 1979.

Getting in

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

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup ultrasignup.com

Qualifying: not checked yet

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Wild Wild West Marathon & Ultra Fourteen hours, and four stations with a clock on each.

You are running it

You reach Hogback, mile 20.3, before its 12:27pm cutoff, and you already knew that this morning.

An arrival time for all 11 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are crewing it

You park at Hogback, and you are standing there when they come in.

One link from your runner, with the stop and the window they arrive in.

You are pacing

You are at Horseshoe Meadows Road, mile 37, warm and fed, and you know you have 13 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Wild Wild West Marathon & Ultra is months of work away, not years, and you enter.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

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: Yes drive.google.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 37.00 drive.google.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes drive.google.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Fully Marked drive.google.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: not checked yet

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew can meet runners at Hogback (mile 20.3), Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37) and the start and finish line at Spainhower Park. Use the race's directions to reach the aid stations, so crew do not congest the course or dust out runners. drive.google.com

Pacer rules: 50-mile runners are permitted one safety pacer beginning at Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37). Pacers need their own ride to Horseshoe Meadows and must complete the remaining 13 miles with their runner. Rides are not provided to pacers who drop. drive.google.com

Drop bag rules: Mark drop bags with your name, bib number and aid station location. Drop bags go to Mother Hill (mile 25.8) and Horseshoe Meadows Road (mile 37) and must be dropped off at the start location race morning. They are returned to the finish line when the aid station closes and are not mailed out. drive.google.com

Cutoff philosophy: not checked yet

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	Start (Spainhower Park) NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	6.40
6.40	Horseshoe Meadows Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	5.90
12.30	10 Miler Split NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	3.50
15.80	Portal Road River Crossing NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	4.50
20.30	Hogback NoneSignal wrong?	12:27pm	●	○	?	?	5.50
25.80	Mother Hill NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	●	?	?	1.70
27.50	Horse Trailhead NoneSignal wrong?	12:47pm	○	○	?	?	7.40
34.90	Portal Preserve NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	2.10
37.00	Horseshoe Meadows Road NoneSignal wrong?	3:30pm	●	●	●	?	3.80
40.80	Water Box (water jugs) NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	1.70
42.50	Alabama Hills Trailhead NoneSignal wrong?	5:10pm	○	○	?	?	3.50
46.00	Horse Trailhead NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	4.40
50.40	Finish (Spainhower Park) NoneSignal wrong?	7:00pm	●	●	?	?	?

Driving your crew

Getting your people there 2 stops with directions the race published.

Hogback mile 20.30 12 min drive from the stop before cutoff 12:27pm

5.8 miles north on US-395 to Moffat Road, turn left. 0.2 miles on Moffat Road to Moffat Ranch Road, turn left. 2.6 miles on Moffat Ranch Road then turn right on Hogback road. 2.0 miles on Hogback rd to aid station, park off the road, do not impede traffic please. Walk the few hundred yards to the aid station. Directions are from Spainhower Park.

Parking. Park off the road. Do not impede traffic. Walk the few hundred yards to the aid station.

drive.google.com

Horseshoe Meadows Road mile 37.00 cutoff 3:30pm

0.3 miles south on Main Street (US-395) to Whitney Portal Road, turn right. 3.1 miles on Whitney Portal Road to Horseshoe Meadows Road, turn left. 0.8 miles on Horseshoe Meadows Road, park on the dirt lot on left. Directions are from Spainhower Park.

Parking. Park on the dirt lot on the left.

drive.google.com

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 50K (31.9 miles)
Marathon (26.6 miles)
10 Miler (9.7 miles)

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.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Social account

Wild Wild West Marathon

Social account

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

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.

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.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 105 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

32% 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.