Explore Truckee/Tahoe trails all July with the Tahoe Mountain Trail Experience, organized by Tahoe Mountain Sports! 🥾 Complete as many segments as you can between July 1–31. Free to join, open to all levels, with fun prizes from local partners (and a community raffle at the After-Party 🎉). Find people to explore trails and post […]
Group Runs
Newbies 2026 Recap
Article by Dana Powers, DPMR Board Member and Newbies organizer Another great Newbies Run season is behind us, and I want to take a moment to reflect on the season, how much fun we had (!!), and all of the people that helped make it a success. For anyone who missed it, the Newbies Run […]
Let Me Run Club: How a Boys’ Run Club United Our Community
Article by Bruna Bradford, DPMR President I am a wellness specialist at Kings Beach Elementary and a Girls on the Run coach. For seasons, whenever I visited classrooms to announce Girls on the Run registration, the boys would get legitimately upset that there wasn’t a program for them. Driven to find a similar curriculum for […]
2026 Summer Group Runs
The trail season has started early and it is now time to grow our chances to connect on the trails. Tuesday morning, Tuesday evening, Thursday evening, Friday morning… pick and choose, or don’t choose and do ’em all!! We’ll also connect for runs of various distances before the picnic and some long weekend runs. Check […]
DPMR Newbies 2026 start April 21st
Mark your calendars for the 2026 Edition of the Newbies Group Run Series! This is a group run for ALL running levels, each week located at a different trail in the Truckee/Tahoe area. The Newbies Group Runs will get new runners, old runners, and everywhere-in-between runners, stoked for the running season. Co-hosted by Tahoe Mountain […]
DPMR’s 2025 Mountain Running Fest in Truckee-Tahoe
Over the last few years, we’ve noticed a build-up of trail running activity in June in the Truckee-Tahoe area. It so happens that we are incredibly fortunate to have two world-class mountain/trail/ultra running events on back-to-back weekends, and many of us are regular participants and volunteers at these two events: the Broken Arrow Skyrace and […]
2025 Summer Group Runs
Article by Martin Benes, DPMR President One of the pillars of DPMR as a running club is to connect mountain runners in the Truckee-Tahoe area. With that in mind, we continually look to offer a wide slate of group runs. This summer we’ve got quite a few regular occurring runs on the horizon. In addition, […]
2025 DPMR Newbies Run Club co-hosted by Tahoe Mountain Sports
DATES: Tuesday evenings for 6 weeks, April 15th – May 20th, 2025TIME: 5:15 pm on for demos, 6 pm run, followed by socializing after!WHERE: Locations to vary each week (see below, updated based on conditions)COST: FreeCONTACT: Krissi Polentz, 415-518-4632, krissi@donnerpartymountainrunners.com Some of our most fun events every year, the Newbies Runs in partnership with Tahoe Mountain Sports return for another […]
2024 Pub-to-Pub Run Recap
On Saturday, October 19th, at 8:00 a.m. 25 hardy runners gathered at the Pioneer Monument at Donner Memorial State Park to kick off the 2024 edition of the DPMR Pub Run. It was a chilly fall morning and some were dressed for winter and others for the beach, but everyone warmed up on the gentle […]
Summer Speedwork Recap
One of the best ways to improve cruising speed on the trail is by hitting the track, particularly the Truckee High School Track at 6000(ish) ft above sea level. That’s exactly what a hardy group of DPMR runners did every Tuesday morning at 6:30am from April through September. I’d say we did it rain or […]
