Register for races individually by visiting the race website: Kids can run alongside Smokey in the kids 1km event, September 20 in Gardiner, while competitive sports can race our own Wilderness Ranger, dressed in full garb and receive a special prize if they beat her. Forest Service personnel along with Woodsy Owl and Smokey Bear will be making appearances at local races. Races are put on by local committees as non-profit fundraisers. All work is done by packing in and utilizing leave no trace and minimum impact trail skills such as cross-cut saws. One trail crew focused on the Sixmile drainage this summer, affected by the 2013 Emigrant Fire, clearing trails, cutting hazard trees, and bringing the trails accessing Monitor Peak from the Sixmile drainage, back to standard. Leave No Trace education and wilderness contacts are also made with thousands of National Forest visitors,” Barker continued. “Across the districts, the wilderness and trail crews clear hundreds of miles of trails, pack in for 5 to 16 day hitches and bring wilderness trails back to standard. “Wilderness means many things to folks, but the fall race series is about coming together as a community, giving back to local non-profits and celebrating this vast expanse of Absaorka-Bearooth Wilderness that we are fortunate enough to have in our backyards,” said Kat Barker, Trails and Wilderness Lead, Yellowstone Ranger District. Run two races and receive a commemorative Wilderness 50 th Anniversary T-shirt. Now you can run and challenge yourself in one of the five communities surrounding the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness including: September 5 in Livingston September 20 in Gardiner September 21 in Red Lodge October 4 in Absarokee and October 11 in McLeod. This 943,377-acre track of wilderness covers portions of three states, boasts over 20 peaks greater than 12,000 feet in elevation and is dotted with more than 950 alpine lakes. Run with Smokey, Race a Wilderness Ranger Run Around Absaroka-Beartooth Countryīozeman & Billings, MT– Run in one, run all five the Custer Gallatin National Forests are hosting a fall fun run series around five rural communities, with the Absaroka Beartooth as their backdrop.
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