Kachemak Bay Mountain Classic
RUGGED TRAIL ADVENTURE RACE SERIES FROM OCEAN TO PEAK TO OCEAN - FUNDRAISER
START AND FINISH ONLY ACCESSIBLE BY BOAT
2023 Sadie Knob Trail 8.5+ mile race sign up before august 12th. Limited to 50 racers. Click for 2023 Race Registration
Email: kachemakbaymountainclassic@gmail.com
OUr unique CHALLENGE IS TO MOVE THE RACE EVERY 3-4 YEARS TO A NEW TRAIL THAT HAS BEEN CLEARED! Sadie knob was not even hikeable 5 years ago but is now runnable thanks to fkbsp volunteers!
This race series is a fundraiser for Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks. The hopes & dreams of this series is for Friends to continue clearing existing trails enough that every 3 or 4 years, we can move the race to a new location and rotate around to different amazing trails in Kachemak Bay State Park that had not been accessible before. Many Park trails have been lost to brush, due to zero State funding. All the trails cleared in this race series are cleared by Volunteers of Friends of Kachemak Bay State Parks. When this race gets moved to a new location (like this event moved to Sadie Knob from Grace Ridge) - it means the dream is being realized and there's more cleared stunning trails in the Park for ALL to use! 3 years ago we could not imagine having a race on Sadie Knob but now it is do-able! When we had the Grace Ridge race for 3 years, the first 2 years were very brushy and you could still get lost, but now Grace Ridge is very hike-able! There's 84 miles of trails in KBSP that were created with Exxon oil spill money years ago, but no funding is provided by State of Alaska for maintaining them. Friends has helped clear and open up about 25 miles of those trails. Our goal is to get more miles of existing trails open and to stay open. You can help support Friends by donating or volunteering find out more here: https://www.friendsofkachemakbay.org/support
Other trails we HOPE to move the race to: Alpine Ridge, Emerald Lake Loop, possibly Goat Rope & Poot Peak, although these trails are not great for hiking let alone a race. But we have hope because we didn’t think we could ever move it to Sadie knob either-But the race series is now there and happening!
email: kachemakbaymountainclassic@gmail.com
If you like adventure and are an experienced trail runner, sign up for 2023 Sadie Knob rugged trail Race on August 12 here:
