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 […]
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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 […]
Give Back to the Dirt: Trail Maintenance Day!
May 30th | 9:00 AM Donner Party Mountain Runners + Truckee Donner Land Trust. Sign the waiver here. And then sign up to volunteer here. We all love that feeling of perfect, flowing singletrack, but the reality is that trails aren’t “set and forget.” In our rugged Sierra Nevada climate, the trails we run every day […]
Canyons 100M Volunteering and upcoming opportunities
What’s a better way to get excited about the trail season than to volunteer at a 100Miler?? The DPMR Aid Station at Deadwood brought all the energy and community one can hope for. And on top of that… Ryan got an entry to next year’s race which was raffled among all the volunteers, and everyone […]
Race Report – Rio Del Lago 100 Miler by Angela Stark
Article by Angela Stark, Donner Party Mountain Runners Vice President Rio Del Lago round two. Hundred miler number three. You would think I’d feel like an expert by now, but nope. Still a solid novice with strong opinions about blisters and the meat grinder. What was different this time is that I finally showed up with a […]
Race Report – Grand Traverse 2025
Article by Julie McGee The Grand Traverse trail run is one of three point to point races between Crested Butte and Aspen, CO. The other modes of racing include skiing in the winter, and mountain biking the day after the trail run. On August 31, myself and some other unafraid souls from DPMR (Aude Hoflietner, […]
DPMR at UTMB
Six members of DPMR competed at UTMB during an exciting week of racing.
DPMR Leadership updates
A few weeks ago, the Donner Party Mountain Runners Board of Directors received the news that Martin decided to step down from his role as President. I thought it would be valuable for everyone to hear from him as well as from Bruna, who is now serving as acting/interim President while nominations are pending for […]
Lesley Dellamonica’s Western States
Introduction by Lynn Tsai Lesley was the first friend I made through running, and that comes with some pros and one con. The con is that if you follow along with her running adventures, your perception of “normal” running is vastly skewed. I think it took at least a year to realize that crushing Black […]
