The detailed "Quick Guide & Map" here follows the "non-standard" route, so I can see now why this would be why the fkt is using the route --follow the la county guide. https://trails.lacounty.gov/Files/QuickGuide/SanGabrielRiver.pdf ...so in… read more »

for any one doing this in the future. please take the standard route which follows the east side of santa fe dam. also, should be fine parking in azusa and running to seal beach..that would be my plan... wind will be coming out of azusa canyon in… read more »

I just looked at the files for Gordon Clark and Matt Siegfried... sadly neither of them took the traditional standard route at the beginning. These are not locals to this trail and their route does not really make sense --I don't know if Buzz Burell… read more »

I just noticed this thread--I ride this trail all the time and have for many years--the map posted here on the fkt site is wrong sorry to say--where the trail goes by santa fe dam is should follow the trail around the east side of santa fe dam...… read more »

It may be a bit far afield for the trail-running audience here, but the old Reel Rock documentary about Ueli Steck, "The Swiss Machine," (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUWBbepsdmY), captures the spirit of FKTs more broadly: "if you do something,… read more »