Races
Bighorn 100
Dayton, Wyoming. Out and back through the Bighorn National Forest. Thirty-five hours. Mud when it wants.
The mountain
Little Bighorn and Tongue River country. Out and back. Seventy-six miles of technical single-track, sixteen of jeep, eight of gravel. Twenty thousand five hundred feet up. Twenty thousand seven hundred fifty down. Long remote stretches, some around eighteen miles. Shoe-sucking mud is not folklore. It is on the welcome page.
The work
You train wet, steep, and self-supported between crew points that are scarce. Thirty-five hours is a two-point-nine-four mile-per-hour average. Elk eat the markings. You still have to follow the course.
Race morning
June in the Bighorns. Packet in Sheridan. Drop bags at the hotel. Finish party in Dayton. Aid is stocked. Crew is limited. Carry what the next eighteen miles need.
Watch outs
Mud. Snow leftover. Heat in the low drainages and a freeze on the ridge in the same day. Wildlife. A well-marked trail that an elk rearranged overnight.