Like a setup to a joke, “What do you call a guy who is always wearing a brightly colored hoodie and goes by the name of a bird?”… meet this month’s DPMR member Jaybird Vacca! Where are you from and where do you live now?I’m originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, and I currently live in […]
Ultrarunning
Hardrock 100 Interview with Betsy Nye
Introduction by Diane Frederic: Talk about habit-forming… DPMR founding member Betsy Nye has finished the Hardrock 100 race an audacious seventeen times! Renee recently interviewed Betsy to find out what’s behind all those summer trips to the San Juan mountains in Colorado and just exactly what keeps Betsy coming back year after year. Read on […]
Race Report by Angela Stark: Castle Peak 100K
In the winter of 2021, while there was still snow on the ground, I decided I needed a new challenge. I stumbled on the Castle Peak 100K website while looking for spring/summer ultras in California. I thought it was an auspicious sign when I saw the event was being held on my birthday and I […]
13+ Hours at Brockway BnB
13+ Hours at Brockway BnB on the 3rd night of Tahoe 200 (2017) #200isthenew100, everyone wants to do one. So much so that there were double the number of entrants (one for every mile) in the 4th go-round of the Tahoe 200 race this year. The runners start at Homewood on Friday morning, and end […]
Western States 100 – DPMR’s showed the Unafraid spirit!
The Western States 100-mile Endurance Run did not disappoint this year. The race always promises heat and competition, and it wasn’t short on either. Temperatures were in the 90’s in Auburn, which means the canyons were smoking, and the competition was fierce, especially on the women’s side. In the front of the women’s pack, first time WS […]
2015 Western States 100 Preview – UNAFRAID! edition
The buzz is in the air, the snow has melted from the trail (didn’t take much this year), and the tapers are on… it’s time for the Big Dance. Year after year the Western States 100-mile Endurance Run boasts arguably the deepest US field of female and male 100 mile runners. At 5:00 AM on Saturday morning the feeling in […]
An Evening of Adventure and Ultrarunning: Journey Film’s Unbreakable and The Long Haul
An Evening of Adventure and Ultrarunning: Journey Film’s Unbreakable and The Long Haul June Education Series with Alpenglow Sports and Journey Films Date: Thursday, June 25 at 7pm Location: Tahoe Art Haus & Cinema Price: $10 (tickets go on sale June 1 on Alpenglow’s website) Join Reno local JB Benna and the Donner Party Mountain Runners for an evening of […]
Miwok 100k
I decided to run this race mostly because it’s an iconic Bay Area race, and I’ve run many ultras in the Bay Area. We left Campbell at 2 AM because I never like to be late. At zero dark thirty it’s hard to see signs, so it took us a while to find parking and […]
DPMR Aid Station at Tahoe 200
I’m not exactly sure what it takes to run 200 miles (ultrarunners are sooo crazy), but I have a pretty good idea now of what it takes to handle a 48-hour aid station during a 100-hour race. It takes a solid group of enthusiastic, untiring, caring ultravolunteers and a kick-ass Aid Station Captain. The Donner Party […]
Overnight Trail Running Lake Tahoe
Philosophy and Preparation Distance running has never seemed all that appealing to me: monotony, pain, and a lack of grand scale (as a road cyclist, the ground you can cover in a single is much greater and, as a result, that undertaking has always taken preference with me). Living at Lake Tahoe, however, has redefined what possibilities […]
