The course starts/finishes at R.H.T's South Shelter (in the cabin area past the Park Office). After a thin-out segment on the park drive including fjordway crossing (you can opt for the catwalk and keep your feet dry but fellow entrants will be encouraged to boo/hiss your softness) before rounding up to the Gorge Trail. A few hundred uphill stairs, several beautiful waterfalls (including the namesake Lucifer's Falls), and a couple pretty sweet historic stone bridge crossings later you'll emerge in the upper park. After a back loop w/ second water crossing you'll cut through to the Finger Lakes Trail for a beautiful rolling single-track descent before a hairpin utility road turn to the finish. One water stop about halfway, though, it being the devil in the details…it's possible the water will be hot.
Turn Cue Sheet | |
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Start | North Shelter Lower Treman S.P. |
0.05 | Left on access drive |
0.1 | Left onto main park drive |
0.5 | Left onto old access road |
0.63 | Left at gate onto grass path |
0.65 | Left at gate on grass rd |
1.15 | Right merger w/ Gorge Tr |
3.05 | Emerge at Old Mill AS |
3.15 | Left at Old Mill onto Orange |
3.45 | Cross grassy utility rd |
3.65 | Cross Butternut Creek |
3.75 | Water Stop / Aid |
3.75 | Left then Rt onto White |
4.05 | Left on end Thomas Rd at Gate |
4.25 | Right onto FLT |
6.3 | Cross then hard left on gravel road |
6.5 | Cross grassy field to finish at shelter |
6.66 | Finish at South Shelter |