Date: July 17-18, 2010 Time: 4:00 a.m. - 30 Hour Limit Entry Fee: $200.00 ( NOTE: Entries limited to the first 300 received ) Entrants: Must have completed one (1) 50 mile race in under 12 hours. Service Requirement: All entrants must have completed 8 hours of volunteer work at an ultra run or other event approved by the race director of the Vermont 100 Endurance Race within 14 months prior to the race they enter. Start & Finish: Silver Hill Meadow, West Windsor, Vermont. (all race activities are centered here). Aid Stations: There will be 29 aid stations with a variety of food and drinks. There is good access for handlers at designated stations. Pacers will be allowed the last 30 miles. Pacers are allowed anytime throughout the course for those 60 years and above. Awards: Buckles to finishers under 24 hours. Plaques to finishers between 24 and 30 hours. Lodging: There is a limited amount of free camping right at Silver Hill Meadow from Friday morning through Monday noon. The first 100 applications received requesting camping spots will get them. A list of local camping and lodging facilities will be sent on request. Course: The course starts and finishes at Silver Hill Meadow. It is a "shamrock" loop, consisting of 70% dirt or jeep roads with the rest on woods trails (there are a couple miles of pavement). The course both climbs and descends 14000 - 15000 feet. The normal temperature in Vermont in July is 80-85 during the day and 55-65 at night (but anything can happen). Vermont 100 Mile Course Description - 2009By Zeke Zucker In a nutshell (Executive Summary, if you will), the course is going up or down most of the time with only a few stretches that are flat. Equal ascent/descent of approximately 14,000'. Some of those hills, primarily on the 70% which is smooth gravel road, are quite steep. 27% of the course is on single track trail or jeep road, with only a small amount of that being lumpy. Basically the footing is quite good overall. About 3% is on 5 segments of paved road, with the longest of those being 1.0 mile long. The last 30 miles are rather challenging. Now, for those who crave more detail, here's a run-on sentence description: In the first few miles you have some early trail up then down leading to an extended climb up Densmore Hill Rd. The gravel roads continue to Taftsville (at 15+ mi.) except for a paved chunk coming down to cross the Taftsville Covered Bridge. Then it's more gravel roads and a trail section that climbs gradually with a little undulation. After Pretty House handler station at 21.1, it's paved, then gravel, then jeep roads up to Sound-of-Music Hill at 27 miles. The view up there is fantastic at one of the highest points of the course (1,946')!. Then across meadows, down trails and more meadows to Wild Apple Rd. (700' elev. loss) and a long easy downgrade gravel road to Stage Rd. handler station at 30. A very short paved part then up a steep grassy trail for a half mile and onto wooded single track behind Suicide Six Ski Area. Cross Rte. 12, some gravel roads, dirt roads and trail sections down to a pavement 1/3 mile on Rte. 4 and cross Lincoln Covered Bridge. One of the toughest hills takes you 2.5 miles up Fletcher Hill Rd., then hill & dale roads until you get to Rte. 106 at 43.5 mi. The 100k racers join in here. Exactly a mile of paved moderate uphill, then back onto some climbing single track/horse trails until you get to Jenne Rd. Up some, then a sweeping down and up and soon a nice downhill stretch into Camp Ten Bear (the first time) at 47.2. Out of T/B there's a half mile hump that connects you to a 22 mile-long loop. Some road, then meandering trail and Agony Hill – a lumpy steady uphill grind to the halfway point, then on gravel again to Pinky's. Cross Tyson Rd. and it's class 4 dirt road for 2 miles of easy upgrade to Birminghams at 54.1. Cross a big field into the woods and snowmobile trails, up and down and out onto gravel for a nice 2 mile downhill breather to Tracer Brook. Hairpin turn and now facing mostly uphill for 9 miles. First 3 are the steepest and only a few level sections. 1.3 miles after Brown School House (65.1) there's a rewarding 3.5 miles of downhill, then that hump again and Ten Bear again, where pacers join up. In your planning keep in mind that the last 30 mile chunk is challenging, with a number of trail sections and short, steep uphills. Just out of Ten Bear, there's a half mile level trail then ¾ mi. fairly steep up Heartbreak Hill on bumpy, usually wet jeep road. A mile of easy grade gravel and then up and down on 2 miles of trail, then back on road at Seabrook at 74.7. Road then single track up and down and up a steep gravel driveway to West Winds/Spirit-of-'76 handler station. Head out onto 1.5 mi. of up and down trail, then 10 miles of uninterrupted road, more than half of it down, and then a couple of steep roller coaster ups in the last mile to Bill's at 88.6 mi.. Single track in woods up, then down, and out onto a long , somewhat bumpy grassy downhill on the edge of a big meadow. At the bottom enter onto Hewitt Hill Rd. for a good mile of uphill, then Hunt Rd. shorter and steeper up and then down and flat. At 92+ you hit Marton Rd., which is very steep up for the first ¼, then not quite so steep, then better before Pond Rd. and Pond trail, somewhat up and lumpy for another ¾ mi. Exit onto gravel for ¾ mile to Polly's (95.5) handler station. Short down then pretty steady up on smooth roads for 2.2 mi. Back on trail up for 0.9, hump road for 0.4, trail and meadow again around top of Blood Hill. Cross the road with just a half mile more of undulating trail. It then goes down and levels out to the finish at Silver Hill Meadow. When folks ask me how hard this course is, I tell them it doesn't have the high elevation or rough footing like other 100's out west or down in the southeast, but it certainly does have hills. In the words of Devon Crosby-Helms, the 2008 women's winner: "Vermont ain't no joke!" Vermont 100 FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) Copyright © 1996-2010 Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports. All rights reserved. | 
