Mt. Hood Trail Games

Welcome to the Mt. Hood Trail Games, featuring super fun and beautiful trail running races up high on the slopes of Oregon’s most famous volcano! Trail Games offers a different spin on trail racing formats, featuring two exciting relay team options, a squad race we like to call the “Wolfpack”, as well as the “Lone Wolf”, a traditional individual trail race.

For the Trail Games course, we’ve assembled a cool “three-leafed clover” consisting of three unique trail loops that all start and finish on the Sun Deck at Mt. Hood Meadows, adding up to 25K (15.5 miles)! No need for vans, gas or managing large teams…it’s just you and your trail besties cheering each other on under the mountain summit the whole time!

Race Options include:

Mountain Relay:
Teams of 3 runners. Each teammate takes turns running every loop, one teammate at a time, until all team members complete all 3 loops to finish. Each teammate’s three loops totals 15.5 miles (25K), for an overall Mountain Relay race distance of 46.5 miles (75K)! The course loops can be run in any order and teammates can run in any order, as long as only one teammate is out running at any given time during the race.

Sprint Relay:
Teams of 3 runners. Each teammate chooses to run one of the 3 loops, with each teammate running a different loop, one teammate at a time. To finish, teammate 1 runs the first loop, teammate 2 runs the second loop, teammate 3 runs the third loop to finish. Total Sprint Relay race distance is 15.5 miles (25K). The course loops can be run in any order.

Wolfpack Race:
Teams of 3 runners. All teammates start, run and finish all three loops together at the same time to finish— your pack is as fast as your slowest wolf! Total race distance of the three loop course is 15.5 miles (25K). The course loops can be run together in any order.

Lone Wolf 25K:
Traditional individual 25K trail race— a single runner completes all three loops to finish the 15.5 mile (25K) distance. The course loops can be run in any order.

Land Acknowledgement: We honor and recognize that we gather for this event on the traditional lands of the Molalla, Kalapuyan, Chinookan Clackamas, Wasco and Wishram, and Northern Paiute peoples and other Sahaptin speakers who have occupied and stewarded these lands for countless generations.