EXTREME RELAY DIRTAILS Note: Same Runner Does Leg 8 & 9. Satan has parking conflict in Hell this year! Vehicles You must have a Michigan Recreation Passport to enter the park. Either you signed up for it when you renewed you MI license plates or it’ll cost you $11 (2013 price). OUT OF STATE cars will need to pick up out-of-state park passes at packet pick up. Make sure you let us know who you are or you will be ticketed! Yikes! Official Vehicle Signs must be visible in rear window of all vehicles on the course and to park! Meet and car pool to the start. One vehicle per team on the course. DWD Vehicle Sign on the back and Park Pass on Front. No motor homes, rickshaws, busses or PT Cruisers (too ugly). Drive Route Detail drive instructions to each exchange point are provided. The routes are fairly direct and provide sufficient time to travel to the next exchange point. You will notice that we have not always chosen the most direct route. We have tried to avoid roads where runners cross (Warning: The drive route will still cross the course several times). This will allow the runners to avoid your exhaust/insults and some danger. It is also designed to allow for responsive medical emergencies and management of the race. We do understand that sometimes you may miss a turn because the stench in the vehicle gets intolerable and you have your head out the window and not on the map. Team Membership Visit dwdhell.com to update your team information. Team members must be human even if you’re dog follows trails better than Grant. You can run with less than 5 people on a team but not more than 5; Heck, you paid for 5. All team members must sign a waiver & turn it in! Did we say this? Handicap Women receive a 12.5 % sex handicap in addition to age handicap. Masters receive a 1.0% handicap for each year over 40 and 1.5% handicap for each year over 50. Age and sex handicap for each team member will be added together for the team handicap. This % will be deducted from the total finishing time to determine YOUR ADJUSTED HANDICAP TIME. Example: A 52-year-old woman would get a 23.5% handicap. If everyone else on the team was male and under 41 the team would get a 4.7% handicap (23.5/5) Confused? You should be! Injury Substitution Another team member may complete the leg of an injured teammate from the point of injury. An injured member is out of the race. An injury substitution is the only allowed non-exchange point exchange. Each team member must run a minimum of 3 legs for the team to be eligible for the handicappedadjusted championship. Good Samaritan Act Please help the injured. As a participant, you are first on the scene. Keep track of any lost time in assisting the injured on Cheat Sheet. We will deduct the time. Finish Cut Off Time 7:30 PM but 6:30 PM is much preferable. Use concurrent running (cheating); see Cheat Sheet. It’s important to finish before we eat all the pizza! Qualification for Handicap Awards: Teams that have finished and turned in their correctly completed cheat cards by 5:30 pm will be included in the handicap awards. Teams finishing after 5:30 pm will be included in the official results but will not be eligible for awards. Other Rules Race Numbers on your Front: each team will have 5 identical numbers. All legs must be run in the order presented and to completion, (No improvised shortcuts). Determine the strategy to best suit your talents. Each team runner is required to run a minimum of 3 legs unless injury occurs. Only one runner per team runs a leg unless injury occurs. See Injury Substitution below. Each leg begins from one exchange point and ends at the next exchange point. While you run, your team drives to the next exchange in a timely fashion. Sometimes the leg is a loop and the team does not drive. There is plenty of time to drive to each exchange point. Exchange Etiquette: o At the exchange, alert your teammate by screaming and yelling team name. o Allow adequate space to execute the exchange. No pushing, no crowding, no peeing in the pool. “Huh, wrong list.” o Exchange is usually made by making physical contact with the next runner in the exchange zone. Some exchanges may be Air Touch to avoid traffic and danger situations. Lost & Found: If you arrive and no teammate can be found, let the exchange captain know and chill out. We will start a search and usually will find your directionally challenged teammate. “Head Goat, what if our next/replacement runner isn’t at the exchange?” We won’t punish you for being unable to get your next runner to an exchange. If by chance your runner arrives at the exchange before your next runner gets there, have the arriving runner start a watch when they get there and stop it when the next runner starts. Put this on your cheat card as a negative number. 100K Relay Course Mostly trail with some stupid spots and a bit of road. Designed as a separate race from the other events but shares many sections. Course is a series of sections - “legs” - between Exchange Points. All legs must be completed in the order presented. Details about the legs are elsewhere in this packet. Legs are from 2.4 to 6.95 miles in length if you do not get lost. Each team member is to run 3 legs. Decide how to best utilize or torture each runner. Leg 8 & 9 are run consecutively by the same team member this year for a total of 5.7 miles. Otherwise back to back legs are not recommended. Come up with a plan to start with and be ready to change once the whining starts. We advertise DWD as a trail run with "Stupid Spots"; several legs are stupid runs with "Trail Spots". Don’t get hung up on the mileage, sometimes a 3 mile leg will take longer and will be more work than a 4 mile leg! Actually, it will all seem like twice as long as it is. You may find it worse than it sounds … but in the end, you will miss it! Exchange Points Some exchange points are aid stations for the Ultra runners. The food and drinks are for the Ultra runners. H2O & First Aid is for all. Course Summary: Note: Same Runner does Leg 8 & 9. Satan has parking conflict in Hell this year! # Name Start End Leng th Total Color Hills Issues Ivy 1 The Stampede Half Moon Half Moon 4.80 4.80 White 4.2 Rock-Rips Min 2 Buttslider Half Moon Silver Lake 4.54 9.34 Yellow 3.3 Modest 3 Rave Run Silver Lake Silver Lake 2.40 11.74 Blue 3.1 Crash & Burn Road Crossings 4 Potto Silver Lake Half Moon 6.08 17.82 Pink 4.5 Rocks Light 5 Purgatory Half Moon Hell Ranch 5.93 23.75 White 2.0 Horse Drops Mod 6 This Sucks 29.50 Blue 3.2 4.68 34.18 Pink 3.5 Excess 8 Hell 3.15 37.33 Pink 1.5 Swamps Chutes & Ladder Maximum Moist High Stripper Pole Styx River of Death Pinckney School Hell Creek Ranch 5.75 7 Hell Ranch Pinckney School Hell Creek Ranch 9 Bad out of Hell Hell Silver Lake 2.55 39.88 Pink 2.9 Butt Slide High 10 Pure Michigan Silver Lake Half Moon 2.73 42.61 Orange 2.8 What the Hell Mild 11 Vertigo Everything’s Bovine That’s the Bridge? Don't Get No Better Hell Hath No Fury Half Moon Farmer John’s Farmer John’s Farmer John’s Farmer John’s 6.95 49.56 Pink 4.2 Slammers High Farmer John’s 3.73 53.29 Blue 2.6 High Farmer John’s 1.80 55.09 White 1.5 Surprise Shoe Sucking Muck Bartell Rd 2.82 57.91 Pink 2.2 Pickers Low Bartell Rd Half Moon 4.09 62.00 Pink 4.0 Rocks Low 12 13 14 15 62 Relay Finish Half Moon Beach 62.00 3.2 Light High Mod Extreme Relay Course Dirtails Note: Same Runner Does Leg 8 & 9. Satan has parking conflict in Hell this year! 1: The Stampede Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Half Moon Beach Half Moon Beach 4.80 mi WHITE +466/-466 2.6 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 2 Rocks & Rips Dry Minimum Road safety crossing method, watch the yellow caution tape & volunteers. Generally clockwise Crooked Lake Trail with wee bit of alternative section in the middle. Fast and crowded with plenty of rock & roll. 2: Buttslider Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Half Moon Beach Silver Lake Beach 4.54 YELLOW +512/-522 2.8 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 1 Crash & Burn Moist Medium The Abyss and Death by Mosquitoes areas are good opportunities to sprain an ankle. Revisions in the Butt Slider and Settlers Grave areas, more rocks. Exchange 2-3 on beach side of concession. 3: Rave Run Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Silver Lake Beach Silver Lake Mound 2.40 BLUE +230/-230 1.6 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 2 Clean Dry Minimum Beginning and End are out and back so opposing runners present. A face to face meeting in blind turn could take an eye out. A beautiful trail run. Some say harder than advertised. Watch Road Crossings. 4: Potto Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Silver Lake Mound Half Moon Beach 6.08 PINK +577/-587 2.9 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 2 Rocks Dry Minimum Long, steady power run. Trail mix of hills, rocks, roots and pickers. Watch out for bikes at your back. Miles of hilly rugged trails on the famous Pottawatomi trail. Geo-web danger. 5: Purgatory Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Half Moon Beach Hell Creek Ranch 5.93 WHITE +430/-400 2.2 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 3 Horse Drops Dry Moderate Abandon Potto at Kelly Rd. Be Mindful: tough turn. How long will you be in Purgatory? End runs in opposition of Leg 8, Pink. Dual exchange in Hell Creek Ranch. 6: This Sucks! Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Hell Creek Ranch Pinckney School 5.75 BLUE +407/-423 2.4 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 1 Swamps Wet & icky Extreme . Exit runs opposite of Leg 7 from exchange to Post 5. Hard left turn at Post 5, someone will screw this up, will it be you? Horse trails before the swamp. Race day reroute may be in place. Do not take Ultra by-pass, we will be watching. Use buddy system. Swamp skull with bullet holes is 2007 Team 48 runner! 7: Stripper Pole Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Pinckney School Hell Creek Ranch 4.68 PINK +502/-486 2.8 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 1 Chutes & Ladder Moist Extreme Make momma proud as you slide down the Stripper Pole. Dirt Ladder climb will be forgotten when you get whiplash in the zig zags. Runs opposite of Leg 6 Blue from Horse Trail Post 5 to Hell Creek Ranch. 8: Styx, the River of Death (Combo run with Leg 9 total 5.7) Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Hell Creek Ranch Hell 3.15 PINK +259/-295 1.5 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 0 River Maximum High The path to Hell is the river of death, Styx. Your tormented soul is ours. Multiple river crossings and river run with dangerous river rocks and deep holes. Life jacket or swim wings optional Keep moving there is NO EXCHANGE - you are running Leg 9 also! No parking. 9: Bad Out of Hell(Combo run with Leg 8 total 5.7) Start at Finish at Length Color Hell Silver Lake 2.55 PINK Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge 0 Butt Slider; Rocks Keep moving, Get OUT of HELL fast. You are running leg 8 and 9. Lots of see saw, butt sliding and rock & roll. Climb +325/-331 Wetness Dry Difficulty 1.9 Poison Ivy High 10: Pure Michigan Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Silver Lake Mound Half Moon Beach 2.73 ORANGE +407/-423 2.7 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 1 Extreme Nature Maybe Medium Splits from Leg 4 pink just after SilverHill road on Old Potto. New lunacy wanders over to Crooked Lake Trail. Lots of ankle busting rocks and couple surprises. New map forthcoming. 11: Vertigo Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty The Farm Half Moon Beach 6.95 PINK +643/-617 3.4 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 4 Slammers Dry High Potto & the Vertigo we all know & love. Nasty downhills that may give you vertigo. Portions of nice trail, road, and hill climb, off trail running and flat ending. 12: Everything’s Bovine Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty The Farm The Farm 3.73 Blue +269/-249 1.9 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy None but be careful on the gravel roads Crappy Mud Hole Wet High No stupid lake. Don’t have a cow! It will still be udderly ridiculous. We would not steer you wrong. Really milking this one. Avoid Ultra By-Pass yellow. Leg 13: That’s the Bridge? Start at Finish at The Farm The Farm Dangerous Road Crossings 2 Length Color 1.80 WHITE Grunge Nasty Climb +141/-141 Wetness Wet Difficulty 1.6 Poison Ivy Moderate You’ve been wondering where the bridge is? We finally found it! Too bad for you, you don’t get it until after the swamp run/walk/crawl. Tie your shoes real tight, this stuff pulls back real hard. Team work is necessary, help each other out. Other than that, it’s quite a nice run. Please, use your experience to write the summary for next year. Winner will be blazed in glory. 14: Don’t Get No Better Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty The Farm Bartell Road 2.82 PINK +213/-184 1.2 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 2 Raspberries Dry Low Good story on name, ask Head Goat or Trail Dog. Hide ripping but tasty raspberries. Slow if overgrown, fast if prisoners cut the grass. Even faster if they are still out there with switch blades! 15: Hell Hath No Fury Start at Finish at Length Color Climb Difficulty Bartell Road Half Moon Beach 4.09 PINK +364/-446 2.2 Dangerous Road Crossings Grunge Wetness Poison Ivy 2 Rocks Dry Low When marking the trail, Hell's heat had reached a scouring sizzle, when one dog exclaimed, "Hell's Bells, I could sure go for a cold one!" Another dog barked," I think I have over-run, I'd sell my soul for an Oberon". The Head Goat bleated, "My cardiac output would be enhanced by a Bell's Two Hearted Ale". We ran over hill and over dale (Sorry, Dale). We ran ever searching for the elusive nectar. Alas, we found no beer. No Amber, no Pale, no Porter and no Stout. The cruelty of misfortune tormented our minds and parched our palates. Satan ruled that day and somehow the course got harder. There it is, "Hell Hath No Fury" had risen. The course and the beer were crafted for your enjoyment. Careful attention to turns as they are sharp and technical. Bad time to get off course. Dead Sprint down the Hill to the Finish. Stay to the right-parking lot side. Ultra stays left- lake side. Team members meet final runner to cross finish together. Note: “Difficulty” is a combination of length & climb. Flat & short is low number, steep and long is high number. It does not include the interesting features of a leg: swamps/rivers/off-trail (who, us?). Note: Descriptions & Comments brought to you by people who will not use their real names. If you disagree, it is okay and we really, really care. Have a nice day. Relay Team Worksheet Note: Same Runner Does Leg 8 & 9. Satan has parking conflict in Hell this year! # Name Start Site End Site Color Leng th 1 The Stampede Half Moon Beach Half Moon Beach White 4.80 2 Buttslider 4.54 Rave Run Silver Lake Silver Lake Mound Yellow 3 Blue 2.40 4 Potto Half Moon Beach Silver Lake Beach Silver Lake Mound Half Moon Beach Pink 6.08 5 Purgatory Half Moon Beach Hell Creek Ranch White 5.93 6 This Sucks Hell Creek Ranch Pinckney School Blue 5.75 7 Stripper Pole Hell Creek Ranch Pink 4.68 8 Styx, River of Death Pinckney School Hell Creek Ranch Hell Pink 3.15 9 Bad Out of Hell Silver Lake Pink 2.55 10 Pure Michigan Hell Silver Lake Mound Half Moon Orange 2.73 11 Vertigo Half Moon The Farm Pink 6.95 12 Everything’s Bovine The Farm The Farm Blue 3.73 13 That’s the Bridge? The Farm The Farm White 1.80 14 Don't Get No Better The Farm Bartell Rd Pink 2.82 15 Hell Hath No Fury Bartell Rd Half Moon Beach Pink 4.09 Runner Concurrent Running (THE LEGAL WAY TO CHEAT, YOU BASTARD): Cheating Bastards = Early or Concurrent running, starting your next leg runner before the previous leg runner has finished in order to finish before dark. Plus, adding the time differential to your time. YOU CAN ONLY BE A CHEATING BASTARD ON SPECIFIC LEGS OR WHEN INSTRUCTED TO! If you are running a bit slow, you may be instructed to start your next runner early. Cheating Bastard Instructions: Start a watch as the early leaving runner starts. When the early runner starts they must yell out, "I am a cheating bastard!" Stop the watch when the incoming runner finishes. Post the time to the "Going to Hell for Cheating" Card Once you’ve got your previous runner, jump in the car and head off to the next exchange. If your early-leaving runner beats you to the exchange, they will have to wait. You will send off a runner when you get there, no worries, you cheated anyway. This legal cheating will assure you might make it to the post-race party. Cheating Bastard Helpful Hints Keep a running time of your runner currently on the course, starting at Leg 1. Helps to guess how lost. Not all legs are open to Cheating Bastards as they are very short and fast. The runner will beat the car! We announce that it is time to concurrent run at the exchanges where it is permitted. Upon special circumstances, the race directors will provide permission to leave early at other exchanges during the race. (Examples: Runner decided to go to Jackson prison or run home.) Lost: If runner is hopelessly lost, (averaging over 17 minutes per mile), tell race officials the team number and runner description. Then start a second watch as next leg runner leaves early. o Found: Record time difference to Cheating Bastards card if the first runner ever shows up. o Not Found: If the first runner never shows up, inform race officials that the team has abandoned them and left the area. Record the “we give the hell up on that slacker” time difference on the Cheating Bastards card. You do not get time off for a lost or pathetic runner. Time Entry: All Teams turn in a signed To Hell for Cheating Card with Good Samaritan, Cheating Bastard Concurrent Times or a big 0. Total the times on the Card and turn in as your team crosses the finish line. This time is adjusted to your official finish time. Cards not totaled or turned in may face maximum time adjustment, additional running miles or be subjected to substantial ridicule. No torture this year. To Hell for Cheating Card No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Leg Name The Stampede Start Cheating if later than Left Early Time Left Early Time Arrived Time Adjustment Start at 7:30 Buttslider No Cheating Rave Run No Cheating Potto No Cheating Purgatory No Cheating This Sucks No Cheating Stripper Pole No Cheating Styx, River of Death 13:30 Bad Out of Hell Not Relevant Pure Michigan No Cheating Vertigo 15:00 Everything’s Bovine 16:00 That’s the Bridge? 16:30 Don't Get No Better 17:20 Hell Hath No Fury Finish by 6:30 No Cheating… subtotal Less Good Samaritan E-mail questions: [email protected] - EXTREME RELAY DRIVE ROUTE Different a bit from last year! Safety is the key to a great Dirt experience. We prefer you get hurt on the trail instead of on the road or in a car. The drive route is generally the shortest route with the highest portion of paved roads and the least conflict (Not, “No Conflict!”!) with incoming vehicles and runners. Basic concepts: a. Be on high watch for runners crossing the roads as they do bolt from the trails! b. Follow the precise drive route c. Be attentive to parking instructions from the exchange volunteers. d. Stay in designated entrances, flow lanes and exits. e. Use odometer – trip odometer. f. Do not lay down behind the wheels of a vehicle in parking areas (Common and ugly!) g. Drive route after your runner starts leg. 1. The Stampede - Half Moon to Half Moon 2. Buttslider - Half Moon to Silver Lake Exit Half Moon (E) to Hankerd Right (S) Hankerd 1.9 miles Left (E) N. Territorial 1.6 Left (N) Dexter-Town Hall 1.1 Left (W) Pinckney Rec. Area 0.6 3. Rave Run – Silver Lake to Silver Lake 4. Potto – Silver Lake to Half Moon DWD HQ Left (E) out of Pinckney Rec. area 0.6 Right (S) Dexter-Town Hall Road 1.1 Right (W) N. Territorial 1.6 Right (N) Hankerd Road 1.9 Left (W) into parking lot of Half Moon 5. Purgatory – Half Moon to Hell Creek Ranch Exit (E) Half Moon to Hankerd Left (N) Hankerd/Glenbrook 1.8 Right (E) Patterson Lake Rd 2.1 1. Left (N) Cedar Lake Road 0.1 2. Right (E) into parking across from Ranch. Stay at Half Moon. Exchange 1-2 at HQ. Caution: Runners crossing Hankerd at exit Exchange 2-3 is lake side Concession. Stay at Silver Lake End 3-4 exchange is top of public mound. Caution: Runners crossing parking access and lot Caution: Runners crossing Hankerd Exchange 4-5 is on parking side of HQ Caution: Runners cross Glenbrook & Patterson Past Hell Store & IScream Caution: Runners Crossing Cedar Lake Road Signs to Exchange 5-6, NW corner of parking. 6. This Sucks – Hell Creek Ranch to Pinckney School Vehicle Exit SE corner of parking Left (E) Patterson Lake Rd 1.0 miles Caution: Runners wandering around Left (N) Patterson Lake/Toma Rd 1.2 miles Left (W) M-36 0.6 miles Left (S) Pinckney Elementary middle entrance. Exchange 6-7 NW corner Shoe / Body Wash – Donate to Pinckney X-Country 7. Stripper Pole – Pinckney School return to Hell Creek Ranch Parking Right (E) M-36 (Main) 0.6 miles Buy Gas & Beverage in downtown Pinckney Right (S) Patterson Lake / Toma Rd 1.2 Right (W) Patterson Lake Rd 1.0 Right (N) into parking field. Use Patterson Lake Rd entrance not Cedar Lake Rd. Exchange 7-8 in NW corner of field 8. Styx – Hell Creek Ranch (No exchange in Hell this year, runner does both leg 8 and 9). 9. Bad Out of Hell – to Silver Lake Exit (E) Patterson Lake. Rd. 1.0 Right (S) Toma 0.75 Right (W) Tiplady 0.25 Left (S) Dexter-Townhall to Park 1.6 (W) into Park to parking 0.7 Caution: Runners crossing parking access 10. Pure Michigan – Silver Lake to Half Moon HQ– Hurry! Left (E) out of Pinckney Rec. area 0.5 Caution: Runners crossing parking access Right (S) on Dexter-Town Hall Road 1.1 Right (W) on N. Territorial 1.6 Right (N) onto Hankerd Road 1.9 Left (W) into parking lot of Half Moon Exchange 11-12 is on parking side of HQ 11. Vertigo – Half Moon to The Farm Exit Half Moon, Right (S) Hankerd Road 1.9 Right (W) North Territorial 1.3 Continue W North Territorial 3.6 Right (NW) Joslyn Lake Rd. 2.2 B – North Lake Gas & Store (open) Left into parking 12. Everything’s Bovine – Stay Down on The Farm 13. That’s the Bridge? – Stay Down on The Farm 14. Don’t Get No Better – The Farm to Bartell Road Right (S) Joslyn Lake 2.2 Left (E) North Territorial 0.1 Left (N) Hadley Rd. 2.8 Right (E) Bartell .5 M to entrance on right Right into parking 15. Hell Hath No Fury – Bartell Road to Half Moon Left (W) out of lot on Bartell 0.5 Left (S) Hadley Rd. 2.8 Left (E) North Territorial Rd. 1.4 Left (N) Hankerd Rd. 1.8 Left Half Moon to team finish B – North Lake Gas & Store (open) Exchange 14-15 southeast edge B – North Lake Gas & Store (open) Caution runners on road! Join Runner to finish as Team
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