Format

These are Hybrid events (aka DIY or Self-Guided). Essentially, what this means is you'll go out and complete the course on your own, with friends if you like, and/or with aid provided by friends.

Afterward, submit your results here with your activity link (be sure its privacy is set to public) for proof of completion, and you'll be ranked in the results and receive a Yuba Gold sticker. Note that you must submit your results within one week of the close of this event.

You will have the entire month of October to complete it. In other words, you choose when to run the course - it just has to be run continuously (all in one go) and within the specified time period.

Details

Sadly, Yuba Gold Trail Runs is no longer running, but you can still run the courses!

50K (2019): This is essentially the original Yuba Gold 50K point-to-point course from South Yuba Campground to Bear Valley.

Start at the South Yuba Trail sign at the trailhead and east end of the upper parking lot at S Yuba Campground.

Finish by tagging the PG&E Group Campground sign by the entrance to the campground on Bowman Lake Rd.

Please be aware that this is more than a 50K (32+ miles).

There are public restrooms at the start and at the finish (at the adjacent Sierra Discovery Trailhead), as well as at the Poorman Creek lot at S Yuba Trail's eastern terminus (roughly halfway through).

Half Marathon (2025): This was to be the new distance addition in 2025.

Start and finish in the historic hydraulic mining town of North Bloomfield by tagging the street sign at the junction of North Bloomfield-Graniteville Rd and Relief Hill Rd.

When you get to the little northeastern lollipop out-and-back, if the northwest side of the pond is too overgrown (traveling counter-clockwise), turning around to make it a straight out-and-back is acceptable. Just be sure you make it to the NE side of the pond before turning back.

There are public restrooms in North Bloomfield.

We would love to offer the 2023 point-to-point 50K and the 2024-2025 35K and 50K as well, but without trail work, these course routes are sure to be seriously overgrown with lots of blowdowns.

Trail Conditions: Please be aware that some parts of these courses don't always get the annual trail work that they need. Primitive Camp on South Yuba Trail, in particular, tends to get pretty overgrown without it.

Feel free to coordinate with others in the Facebook group or Strava club.

More Hybrid Events from Skybreaker Racing

50K Course Route

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Half Marathon Course Route

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Event's current local time: 12:00 AM PT