Trail Stewardship has always been a core value dear to our DPMR hearts – and the relentless winters of 2017 and 2019 have proven to be especially taxing on the trails we cherish. Join us for some upcoming trail work days – we promise, as always, it’ll be GOOD, DIRTY FUN! Our first DPMR 2019 […]
Trail Conditions
Burton Creek Half Marathon – June 18, 2017
The Burton Creek Trail Runs are part of the Tahoe Trail Running Series put on by Big Blue Adventure and include three distances which appeal to all abilities on the running spectrum – 6K, 12K and a Half Marathon. This year, Burton Creek took place on Father’s Day. I had signed up to run the […]
Trail Work Parties
Post written by Kevin Starr, Truckee Donner Land Trust* Winter 2016/17 was one for the record books that made for fantastic ski conditions, but the multiple atmospheric river events combined with above-average snowpack runoff have also contributed to excessive erosion on many of our area trails. With its steep nature and tender soils, one of the […]
Cold Feet!
11:54am ME: “Hi! What are you up to today, want to grab a coffee? Weather’s terrible but I’ve got to get out of the house! Cabin fever, man…” 11:56am JP: “I’m running on Donner Summit in 15, wanna join? It might be brutal rain & wind” 11:57am ME: “I haven’t run in months, got sick, […]
Train Tunnels Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday, August 10th 2015 Type: Out & Back Start/Finish: Dirt parking lot just to the West of Sugar Bowl Road. Click Here for map. Distance: 5ish miles – it’s hard to tell since the GPS signal is spotty in the tunnels. Elevation: 500 ft +/-, but again the GPS data is questionable. According to […]
Boreal to Old 40 Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday, August 3rd 2015 Type: Out & Back Start/Finish: Donner Summit California State Snopark – click here for map. Distance: 7.5 miles (options to run on to Mexico, or Canada for that matter) Elevation: 1,136 ft Special thanks: to Lesley Dellamonica for marking the trail & Jon Emis for always ensuring we all make it […]
Martis Valley Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday July 20th, 2015 Type: Loop Start/Finish: Parking Lot off of 267/N. Shore Road – see map below Distance: 4.2 miles Elevation: 392 ft SUMMARY: This run is a short and sweet 4 mile loop, but there are several options to increase mileage and add on with different routes. You can take a look […]
JPs Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday, July 13 2015 Type: Out & Back Start/Finish: Dead end of Cold Stream Road behind Donner Memorial State Park (click here for map) Distance: 3 miles (options to go further) Elevation: 571 ft SUMMARY: This unexpectedly beautiful trail begins and ends on the paved portion of Cold Stream Road, just behind Donner Memorial […]
Waddle Ranch Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday, July 6, 2015 Course Type: Lollypop Start/Finish: Gravel parking lot on the right just past the Northstar golf-course on Highway 267/N Shore Rd. Click here for more detailed map of start location. Distance: 5.5 miles Elevation: 587 ft SUMMARY: This Trail Teaser was in Waddle Ranch Wednesday territory! After parking in the gravel lot […]
5 Lakes Trail Teaser Wrap Up
Date: Monday, June 22, 2015 Course Type: Out & Back Start/Finish: Alpine Meadows Road & Deer Park Drive (the second Deer Park intersection – it’s a loop and intersects Alpine twice) Distance: 4 miles (option to run all the way to Mexico when you connect up with the PCT) Elevation: 1,034 ft (all concentrated in the […]
