ObnoxiousTrail Monkey 100 mile, 100k, or 40 mile "Bandit" Ultra-Marathon.
Four Courses. One Race.
Join us as we run our annual bandit 100 miler on one of four rotating courses.
2017 - OTM 100-B: Uinta Highline Trailhead south to Mill Hollow
2018 - OTM 100-A: Ogden Perry Canyon to Beus Canyon and Back
2019 - OTM 100-C: Strawberry Reservoir
2020 - OTM 100-D: TBD
2017 Date: August 4-5, 2017, 6:00am
Join us August 4-5 for the fourth annual OTM 100 along the OTM 100-B course. This year we will be doing things a little differently. With Sam running the Wasatch 100, and Steve being pretty piss-poor at quitting 100 mile races early, the plan is for Steve to run 60 miles on Friday, camp for 7 hours or so, and then get up and Sam will join Steve for the last 40 miles.
The official 100k will start at the same time and location as the 100. Anyone is welcome to run any distance with us. The first day will end up being about 100k if you complete the loop to the Duschene Canyon overlook.
We will create a Facebook event for this, so if you would like an invitation for that, please let us know.
This is not an official or sponsored race. There are no costs associated with it other than what you pay for your own support
Course B Description (August 4-5 2017): 99.66 miles and 15,551' total ascent
This course begins at the west end of the Uinta highline trail, and breaks south along the Duchesne River bordering the Uinta Wilderness area. After looping back north for a bit to oversee the river from above, you cross the highway to begin running the trail system up and around Notch Mountain and back to Trial Lake to the 1/3 mark. From there, you travel the single track trail south along the many small lakes to the get back to the Soapstone campground. After running a couple miles on miserable pavement, you climb back up above Mirror Lake highway and head east out to the phenomenal Duchesne River Gorge overlook to finish off the 2/3 mark, where we will camp at either mile 60 or mile 64, which at the same location. At this point, you then run on top of the plateau along the dirt roads to work your way south in order to drop down to hwy 40 and climb back up to the beautiful Wolf Creek Ridge for 4 miles. Dropping off the ridge and running down past Mill Hollow, you follow the dirt road back to the mouth of Mill Hollow canyon. Running another mile and half on pavement, you then use the dirt roads to climb back up on the plateau to finish the course once again near the Duchesne River Gorge Overlook where we camped.Course A Description (October 2018):
This course goes from Perry Canyon Water Collector to Beus Canyon and back. The total vertical climb of the course is approximately 25,000' The route covers about 88 miles of single track, with a dozen or so miles covering four-wheeler trail, dirt roads, and a tiny amount of pavement. .The first 12 miles climb the winding switchbacks up Perry Canyon to meet up with the dirt road in Willard Basin. After a couple miles of the beauty of that basin you jump back to the single track trail near the summit of Willard Peak. Running the ridge between Willard and Ben Lomond, you then drop down to the North Ogden Divide. Three miles of steep incline await you there as you summit Eyrie Peak before again dropping down to Pineview Reservoir. Then a slow, 14 mile climb takes you across the Pineview Dam, through Wheeler Creek and up the trails of Snow Basin. Reaching the saddle immediately below Mt. Ogden, you then drop down five miles and cross through the famous fern valley of Beus Canyon to 46th street in Ogden for the halfway point. Then, turn around and run back to complete the full 100.
2017 Logistics:
Who is running?: We invite all. We will reasonably assist anyone that wishes to join us. Experience has shown that only Sam, Steve, Chris, and maybe one or two others will end up trying the whole course. But we really don't care if no one else shows up. We'll still do it anyway.
Distance: Assuming you stay on the route outlined below, this is a full 100 miles, measured as meticulously as we have been able using Google Earth, Strava, and Garmen.
Shuttle This depends on who is coming. With Sam crewing the first day, we likely won't need to shuttle people around after Sam drops us off at the start line.
Aid stations: Generally, the aid stations are no farther than 10 miles apart. Most of them are right around 10 miles from each other. The longest distance between aid stations is 13.6 miles (the first leg), and the shortest is 4.18. Sam will be crewing the first 60-64 miles. The remaining 3 aid stations will be drop bags that Sam stashes in the bushes along the side of the road. Sam will generally be keeping tabs on everyone at each aid station, waiting till everyone has gone through before driving to the next one.
Drop bags: We will provide water at the aid stations, but as far as everything else, you're on your own. You will want a drop bag at each aid station (or a large one for Sam's car).
Pre-Race Meeting: In the car on the way out there.
Course Markings: We will promise nothing in terms of course markings, so take some time to learn the recommended route. There are a ton of dirt roads along some of the plateaus, so you will need to have a route loaded on your GPS device.
Bathrooms: Don't plan on any real bathrooms. Be ready to go in the bushes and take care of it properly.
Think it through: Being a bandit run, you should plan on having a running partner or tracking app. Bring a couple battery packs for your cell phone.. There are no check-ins and check-outs at aid stations, and no one will be keeping tabs on your location. Don't show up expecting anyone to show you the way, or to keep tabs on you. We are not responsible for you. There are no cut-off times. This is a bandit run! Have we made that clear enough?
DNFs: Don't plan on any cell service in this area around Mirror Lake Highway and Mill Hollow. So if you have to drop for any reason DO IT AT AN AID STATION where we can find you. If you have a SPOT tracker, that's even better. But please don't plan on any accomodations. And if you drop along the course, stay on the course so we can find you.
Protect our National Forest: All four of our courses are, with very tiny exception, entirely on National Forest Service land. As such, we will follow all rules and regulations for non-commercial group events.
For details on the Forest Service regulations, you can read more here.
Click here to see a map of the National Forest Service and BLM lands in the area.
Why?
Early in 2014, Sam and I (Steve) decided that we really wanted to run our first hundred miler. Unfortunately for us, we both had tight budgets that didn't allow for us to pay the hefty price tag required to run an official one. Not content to just patiently save and wait what might be an entire year away, and inspired by Fast Cory running his makeshift 100 miler right down state street in Salt Lake, we began tossing around the idea to just run our own. We even affectionately started calling it the "Poor Man's 100." After all, if there is one thing the trail monkeys pride ourselves on, is that we tend to do things a little differently.Fully realizing that we couldn't call this anything other than a bandit run, and not expecting anyone to give us any accolades, pats on the back, or endless "you killed it out there" posts on Facebook for accomplishing what is essentially a wanna-be 100 miler, we set out to make it as official in our own minds as possible. After all, the actual glory of finishing a hundred miler doesn't come from the finely crafted belt buckle or fading Facebook posts, but from the pride of knowing what you have accomplished.
After finally deciding to pull the trigger on this unorthodox endeavor, we asked if any of the additional Trail Monkeys would be willing to go along with this. Chris immediately jumped in and was our first and only finisher that year. Last year we garnered more interest, but on race day only one additional runner actually joined us for the whole course (Nice job Tony!). We have had numerous people who have supported us and wish to thank each of them for supporting our mentally irregular idea.
After "the incident of 2015," where Steve dropped out at mile 78 with blood in his stomach, provoking Sam's race-rage, we decided that if we are going to make this sustainable for us to keep doing each year, we needed to expand the race concept to include four rotating courses with one per year. In an effort for us to avoid burnout on any one, single course, we began the effort to find other great places to run over the next few years in Utah's beautiful National Forests.
Finishers Awards
Even though this is a bandit run for which we collect no money, we still like to have some sort of keepsake for our finishers, so we order and engrave a belt buckle in the shape of our symbol. Yup, a Barrel of Monkey belt buckle. This year, there will probably be few enough people that we can still afford to give everyone that finishes an engraved buckle. As for the 100k finishers, we have an engraved monkey carabiner.
Segment and Aid Stations:
Anyone who gets from Perry to Beus Canyon and back is considered a finisher. Generally, the trail and which way to go are pretty obvious. If you want to keep it as close to 100 miles (or 100k) as possible, spend a little time going over the route. Especially on section 2 going up Willard Basin and section 5 going up Snow Basin.
Segment 1: Highline Trailhead to Murdock Basin
Miles: 13.62
Average Elevation: 9,069'
Elevation Gain: 1,615'
Elevation Loss: 2,668'
Segment 2: Murdock Basin to MooseHorn Lake
Miles: 10.17
Total: 23.79
Average Elevation: 9717
Elevation Gain: 1,988'
Elevation Loss: 905'
Segment 3: MooseHorn Lake to Washington Lake
Miles: 10.0
Total: 33.79
Average Elevation: 10,304'
Elevation Gain: 1989
Elevation Loss: 2332
Segment 4: Washington Lake to Shady Dell
Miles: 10.06
Total: 43.85
Average Elevation: 9735
Elevation Gain: 485
Elevation Loss: 2405
Segment 5: Shady Dell to Iron Mine
Miles: 6.15
Total: 50.00
Average Elevation: 8909
Elevation Gain: 1267
Elevation Loss: 581
Segment 6: Iron Mine to Overlook Aid
Miles: 10.36
Total: 60.36
Average Elevation: 9647
Elevation Gain: 1841
Elevation Loss: 887
Segment 7: Duschene River Overlook Loop
Miles: 4.18
Total: 64.54
Average Elevation: 9801
Elevation Gain: 885
Elevation Loss: 885
Segment 8: Overlook Aid to Wolf Creek
Miles: 9.36
Total: 78.87
Average Elevation: 9692
Elevation Gain: 909
Elevation Loss: 2046
Segment 9: Wolf Creek to Mill Hollow
Miles: 10.8
Total: 84.7
Average Elevation: 9378
Elevation Gain: 1666
Elevation Loss: 1522
Segment 10: Mill Hollow to Soapstone Pass
Miles: 5.67
Total: 90.37
Average Elevation: 8389
Elevation Gain: 1224
Elevation Loss: 953
Segment 11: Soapstone Pass to Overlook Aid/Finish
Miles: 9.29
Total: 99.66
Average Elevation: 9515
Elevation Gain: 1712
Elevation Loss: 988
GPX files and maps can be downloaded from here:
Interactive Map: https://spotwalla.com/trackViewer.php?id=4982
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