Start at Orange Trail Head. Loop Includes in Order:
Orange Trail, Purple Trail, Blue Upper Trail, Blue Trail, Yellow Trail, Green Trail, and Grass along road back to Orange Trail head. From the Orange trail to the Purple trail you have to run along the road.
I see why this route hasn’t had a time posted. I expected to be hopping trees due to storm damage, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as severe. The park is closed and looks like ground zero for an atomic bomb. Nearly every tree is down. The trails have been decimated by hurricane damage, flooding and a recent fire. I toughed it out and bushwhacked 6 miles of best approximation of the route following the GPX track. The brush and trees finally hit a point I was having to crawl through the damage. I finally bailed out on the pipeline after only doing 5 miles in 5 hours.
The park still appears abandoned except for the caretakers that live inside it. There are still campers and vehicles stuck under fallen trees. I don’t know the plans, but I don’t expect the trails here to come back for many many years.
Also, my phone had fallen out of my vest. Having gone the last 3 miles off trail I assumed it would be impossible to find and the brush was so dense that memory and backtracking my watch gpx wouldn’t be accurate. It was a pure million to one chance I walked right back into it perfectly visible on the ground.
I think the general consensus among local runners was to wait for cooler weather to post a fast time. Prior to the Double Hurricanes I personally had never run it as a time trial. If you want to know the time to beat, you could look up the Danimal Ultra that followed the course (it had an added out and back). I know I've run the course in a little over an hour before, so I expect an FKT with clear trails to be close to an hour as a starting point.
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I see why this route hasn’t had a time posted. I expected to be hopping trees due to storm damage, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as severe. The park is closed and looks like ground zero for an atomic bomb. Nearly every tree is down. The trails have been decimated by hurricane damage, flooding and a recent fire. I toughed it out and bushwhacked 6 miles of best approximation of the route following the GPX track. The brush and trees finally hit a point I was having to crawl through the damage. I finally bailed out on the pipeline after only doing 5 miles in 5 hours.
The park still appears abandoned except for the caretakers that live inside it. There are still campers and vehicles stuck under fallen trees. I don’t know the plans, but I don’t expect the trails here to come back for many many years.
Also, my phone had fallen out of my vest. Having gone the last 3 miles off trail I assumed it would be impossible to find and the brush was so dense that memory and backtracking my watch gpx wouldn’t be accurate. It was a pure million to one chance I walked right back into it perfectly visible on the ground.
I think the general consensus among local runners was to wait for cooler weather to post a fast time. Prior to the Double Hurricanes I personally had never run it as a time trial. If you want to know the time to beat, you could look up the Danimal Ultra that followed the course (it had an added out and back). I know I've run the course in a little over an hour before, so I expect an FKT with clear trails to be close to an hour as a starting point.
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When a time comes for the park to be cleared this route may not even be the same. So I expect that we will have to revise it when that time comes.