The Orcas Island 200 mile race explores Moran State Park’s many mountain lakes, forested single track trails, and the 2,409 foot Mount Constitution on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The trails offer views of the Cascade Mountain range to the east, surrounding islands, and American …
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The Orcas Island 200 mile race explores Moran State Park’s many mountain lakes, forested single track trails, and the 2,409 foot Mount Constitution on Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. The trails offer views of the Cascade Mountain range to the east, surrounding islands, and American and Canadian cities. You can see Mount Baker dominating the skyline with its snow capped top rising out of the Cascades. A bank of clouds below the rocky cliff as you summit Mt. Constitution and green islands rising through the clouds like rocks in a wild sea make this race one of the most stunning trail races in the Pacific Northwest. On the summit, there stands a stone observation tower built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. The tower offers panoramic views of the sea, islands, mainland, and the Cascades. The 200 mile race will be plenty challenging with 60,132ft of elevation gain! The course is seven repeats of the marathon route finishing with one final summit of Mt. Pickett to conclude at 205 miles. Runners will have 104 hours to complete this beast!
The course is a sort of figure 8 with runners summiting Mt. Pickett then returning to the Camp Moran aid (mile 13.7) then climbing Mt. Constitution (mile 21.2), then descending to Lodge Aid (mile 27.2) as the first figure 8. Runners do this 7 times then finish with a final 13.7 miles up and around Mt. Pickett to finish at the Lodge for a total of 206.3 miles. Camp Moran has bunk camping cabins and tent camping as well as bathrooms, showers and commercial kitchen so we can keep you well fed! At night (dusk/when it gets dark until dawn) the Constitution Aid will be “no crew allowed” but crew can access the Lodge Aid 24/7. This is because the park locks the gate to the top of the mountain at night.
There will be aid stations every 13.7 miles, 7.5 miles, 6.3 miles apart. Aid stations will offer hot food, lots of real food, soup, wraps, vegan and GF options. We will also have Tailwind Nutrition at drink calorie mix and Spring Energy gels at the aid stations.
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