June 27, 3:50am This is it. The culmination of more than 18 months of anticipation and preparation. I can’t quite believe it but I’m climbing out from Robie Point and feeling strong. 18 days earlier I had run this section, visualizing this moment with 3 main hopes: that it will still be dark, that I […]
Member News
Lucas Horan Memorial Run: Full Moon Howl and Whiskey Toast on Tinker
On Saturday, August 21, 2021, at 6:00 pm, Donner Party Mountain Runners will honor our friend Lucas Horan with a Full Moon Howl and Whiskey Toast on Tinkers Knob, preceding a party in the parking lot at the Old 40 Bar and Grill on Donner Summit. This run is a self-supported fat-ass-style adventure outing on […]
DPMR Members Only Newbies Run Club Co-hosted by Tahoe Mountain Sports
WHEN: Tuesday evenings for 4 weeks, 5:15 pm – 7:15 pm, starting April 20th, 2021 (may be extended to 8 sessions, TBD)WHERE: locations vary each week, TBDCOST: FreeCONTACT: Steve Buelna (530) 414-4264 We are all excited to announce that group runs are coming back! Come out and join Steve Buelna and crew for introductory running […]
Getting back to Racing during COVID
It is exciting to see trail races returning to our area after so many cancellations due to the COVID pandemic. Over the past few months, race directors and medical directors are working with public health officials to figure out ways to bring racing back without creating superspreader events. While numbers are looking good in Nevada […]
Milking the Options
When you venture down the milk aisle of any grocery store, you will likely notice an overwhelming number of options. And those are just the dairy options! For those of us that avoid dairy for any reason, the alt mylks are nearly as overwhelming: sweetened or unsweetened, vanilla, coconut, chocolate, stabilized, natural… it is dizzying. […]
Thank you new and renewing members!
“We exist to inform, inspire and connect mountain runners in Truckee-Tahoe.”With your membership, you are joining hundreds of like-minded runners to come together in our community to share our love of the trails. Together, we are creating this legacy and we thank you for your support. We welcome this year’s newest members and old friends […]
Missing Lucas
The DPMR family lost one of our own on Christmas Eve. Lucas Horan (39) was taken from this life far too soon and has left a deep void in our hearts and on the trails. We send our deepest condolences to Lucas’s family and loved ones in the wake of this devastating loss. Lucas embodied […]
Member Highlight- Kathy Slocum
I had no idea what my new friend looked like. I met her somewhere between the Cal2 and Cal1 Aid Stations as the climbing becomes relentless on the way back out of the Canyon. She was chipper and chatty I was just thankful for someone else to do the talking and keep my mind off […]
2020 Halloween Hill Climb
Holy Hill Climb Batman- that’s a whole lot of vert! DPMR members racked up an amazing 150,000 collective vertical feet of climbing at the 2020 Halloween Hill Climb! Congratulations to the woman’s winner Dia Davis with an impressive gain of 9,193 feet and men’s winner Caleb Armstrong, the true monster of climb, with an amazing […]
The Sunshine Vitamin
Many of us know that getting out for our daily run in the sun is good for our health (and sanity!). But how does the sunshine vitamin help us as athletes? This is the closest that we humans get to plants’ photosynthesis, converting UVB rays to Vitamin D in our liver. However, our skin and […]
