The
Sunshine Coast Trail is a 180 kilometer
(118 mile) hiking trail. Located
approximately 100 kilometers up the coast
from Vancouver near Powell River, British
Columbia, Canada, the Sunshine Coast
Trail offers some of the most spectacular
scenery on the planet.
The trail is not well known and it's natural beauty threatened by logging. To raise awareness of the trail, raise funds for trail maintenance and as part of a "boys weekend on the road" four Vancouver Ultra Runner attempted to run the full lenght of the trail non-stop in 2003. The trail won. They came back in 2004 and one runner completed the distance.
They envisioned the run as an open Club Fat Ass Event, inviting experienced ultra runners to use the information they compiled and plan their own
STC 180 Adventure!
Runners can expect to enjoy rocky coastline, flat and fast trails through old growth forests of Douglas fir and red cedar, nasty, rooty climbs up steep mountains and equally challenging descents. The trail passes through several communities including Powell River. Total vertical gain and loss over the course of the trail is approximately 8,300 meters. In perspective, that is like climbing to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and back twice from sea level.
