The Crow Pass Crossing is a foot race through the backcountry of the Chugach Mountains. It starts south of Anchorage, near Girdwood, and travels up and over Crow Pass, down to Eagle River which is about halfway through the race. You then ford Eagle River, which the race entry form describes as a ‘quarter-mile wide, glacier-fed, thigh-deep, torrent’ (its not quite a quarter-mile wide). From there the ‘trail’ (and I used that term loosely) follows Eagle River, with a couple more smaller river crossings, out to the Eagle River Nature Center, which is north of Anchorage and is the finish line. The whole race is between 24 and 28 miles (no one really knows because it is too hard to measure).
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For the six years that I lived in Park City, my training partners (Erik Stange and Scott Loomis) and I always talked about riding the White Rim mountain bike trail in Canyonlands National Park near Moab. It is 103 miles, and though most people ride it over the course of a long weekend, we wanted to do it in a day.