Being organised by the Cascade Mountain Runners:
From their about the trail page:
BELLINGHAM-MT. BAKER TRAIL
The Trail
The Bellingham-Mount Baker trail is envisioned to be a non motorized hut to hut multi use trail system. Leaving the sidewalks of downtown and following the Whatcom creek trail out of the city, the trail will turn to single track as it makes it’s way to the mountain. When completed the trail will span over 50 miles from Bellingham bay to the edge of the Easton glacier. The trail will be open year round to hiker’s, runners, backcountry horsemen and mountain bikes.
The Route
The trail connects a string of public lands together and uses several miles of the remaining Deming-Mt. Baker trail, now the Ridley creek trail built in 1909. This trail was the inspiration for, and hosted the Mount Baker Marathon from 1911-1913. Starting at Cornwall beach, Bellingham’s new waterfront development the trail will leave the built environment within just a few miles as it makes it’s way to Mt. Baker. Newly planned trails will take you around the north side of Lake Whatcom and up and over Stewart mountain to the town of Acme. Leaving Acme through the new South fork park the trail will traverse Blue and Bowman mountains to reach the Middle fork of the Nooksack river. The trail will follow the river valley up and link into the Ridley Creek and Railroad grade trails, where the dirt trail ends. For the mountaineers who opt climb to the summit, 4 miles of glacier travel remain.
They ran this route earlier this year:
2016 MOUNT BAKER ULTRA RUN
On Sunday June 5th 2016, 11 of the 12 runners returned to Cornwall beach after completing the 108 mile journey to the summit of Mount Baker and back in 41 hours and 30 minutes.
This years run was the 6th run since the first attempt in 2013 in an effort to bring attention to the newly planned Bellingham-Mt. Baker trail and revive the original spirit of the 1911 Mt. Baker Marathon. Two successful runs were completed in 2014 and 2015 with a time of 48 hours and 17 minutes followed up by a 40 hour finish last year. The group run is non competitive, with each runner completing the entire 108 mile distance as part of the team. This year runners came in from Oregon and as far away as Australia. The 2016 team was made up of 3 women and 9 men, with 3 runners returning from previous runs.
The fun thing is that the Bellingham Chamber of Commerce sponsored a similar race back in 1911 - there is a great story about the winner and #2.
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