Aid Stations
Long stretches between aid stations
The Wyoming Range 100 has 11 aid stations, including the finish. The longest stretch is 15.2 miles, from Box Canyon (mile 17.1) to Roaring Fork Lakes (mile 32.3).
The race has seven sections that are ten miles or longer.
Aid station captains have the final and only say
Just it case it doesn’t go without say, while the Wyoming Range 100 only has two “official” cutoffs, we fully empower our aid station captains to pull runners who are not fit to continue. Our captains are seasoned ultra-runners and outdoorspeople. They know the course and the challenges it presents.
If a captain says you cannot continue, there is no negotiation — you are done. Please, respect their decision and come back next year to get the job done. If you “sneak” out of an aid station, we will disqualify you and ban you from the race permanently. This is a guarantee from your RD.
Aid station chart
Cutoffs
Two manageable (but sneaky) cutoffs
Although we designed the Wyoming Range 100 to be tough, we did not design it to have a low finishing rate. We want every runner who starts the race to finish the race. To help make this happen, we only have two cutoffs on the course:
McDougal Gap (54.6) — 5:00am Saturday (22 hours). This is a change from 2023. We added four miles to the “first half” of the course, so we extended the McDougal Gap cutoff by two hours
Finish (105.0) — 7:00am Sunday (48 hours)
Do not be fooled by the seemingly generous cutoffs! We’ve had plenty of runners who got behind the first cutoff because they started a bit too conservatively.
If you arrive at the finish after the cutoff, you’ll be the proud recipient of a Langford Unofficial Finisher award. (John Langford treated himself to a four-hour nap on top of Pickle Pass in 2022 and missed the finish cutoff. John and our sweeper got to spend a lot of quality time together.)
Enforcement
We will enforce the McDougal Gap cutoff on the “exit” side of an aid station. This means you must leave McDougal Gap by 5:00am. If you enter McDougal Gap at 4:58am and sit for five minutes, you will not be allowed to continue. The aid station captain is solely responsible for enforcing the cutoff and will go by their watch and their watch alone, which will be synchronized with the race time.
In the same vein, an aid station captain may pull a runner from the course at any time, if the captain believes it is unsafe for the runner to continue. Keep in mind, we do not want to pull anyone from the course. Again, we want everyone to finish. Our volunteers will do everything in their power to keep you moving – up to and including throwing you out of an aid station.
The finish line cutoff will similarly be enforced against the race time. This means that, if we start the race at 7:03:32am on Friday, the 48-hour cutoff will be 7:03:32am on Sunday. The finish line race clock will be the official device (with the RD’s watch as a backup).
Returning to an aid station
If a runner leaves an aid station and comes back to it after more than 30 minutes or so (except in the event of inclement weather), the aid station captain may pull the runner from the race. In our experience, runners who do this are generally disoriented and highly unlikely to finish. We pull these runners for their safety.
An exception to this policy is waiting on a storm. If the weather looks back, please seek shelter in an aid station.
Food and Drinks
Food
All aid stations will have an assortment of “quick” sweet and salty foods — chips, pickles, cookies, bananas, gummy bears, PB&Js, potatoes, etc. Aside from the first aid station, our aid stations will also have “real” and hot foods, like quesadillas, burgers, soups, and bacon.
If you have significant dietary restrictions, PLEASE pack your own food in your drop bags and/or backpack. While we do our best to accommodate a range of appetites and diets, we simply cannot meet everyone’s needs. Our volunteers are awesome but don’t have the wherewithal to definitively say if a given food has certain ingredients or was prepared in a particular way.
You can view our food/nutrition plan here — an actual look at what will be in each aid station.
Drinks
Every aid station will have potable water and Tailwind. If you’re concerned about the particular Tailwind flavor, pack your own. Most aid stations will have soda, too.