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June 10.2012
50 Mile Slack Ass and 19/21 km Half Ass Run or 6k Easy Ass Run
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7:45am
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Meet at Picnic Shelter number 2. You can look at a map of the park here... http://www.edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/parks_rivervalley/william-hawrelak-park.aspx
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8:00am
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START. Begin by crossing the Hawrelak Park footbridge into Laurier Park. At the end of the bridge, turn left or south on the trail closest to the river. There are some portions where the trail feeds you back onto a road, simply get back onto the trail when it reopens. They run parellel so don't worry which path you are on.
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00.0
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Continue down that trail until it feeds you onto a paved path. You will then note that the path ends at a little loop and you will turn around and come back just as you came or thereabouts.
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3k
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If you choose to end it when you get back to Hawrelak Park, you have done 6k! If you keep going, cross the bridge back into Hawrelak Park, where you will see the bathrooms where you started off, and turn right onto a dirt path.
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6k
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Follow the dirt path up a gradual climb until you arrive at a road, Saskatchewan Drive. Follow the road until you see a paved path on your right hand side. This will feed you onto the old Keillor Road and behind the horse barns. Follow this wide paved path until you reach an intersection where there is a stop sign and a road to your left. Take this left and follow the road around as it curves left. You will come to a little path leading to the parking area on your right - get on it. Then go right when you get to the road, you should now be going away from the stable and towards the bridge. Turn left (where there are outhouses on the righthand side) onto the little service road, going underneath the bridge. You will see a little footbridge on the far right corner of the parking lot, cross it. The get onto the path, turning left at the T intersection.
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10k
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Continue on this path straight without exiting out of the ravine on any of the trails going up - toward the ski area. You will reach a campground. They do have locked facilities that you could perchance beg for if you were in real need, but don't bet on it. Either way, the top of the ski hill is your turn-around so get climbing!
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12k
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| 10:30am |
If you are doing the Half Ass, you have now returned to the START/FINISH and are done, congratulations!! If you wanted to do 13.1miles, do 1 victory loop around Hawrelak.
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19k |
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If you are continuing, continue on the lower trail the leads northbound past the picnic shelter, closest to the water. You will soon come underneath Groat Bridge. |
21k
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Continue onto the dirt trail in front of you just beside the park road as it heads into the forest. There is a bathroom with running water on your right in Emily Murphy Park, where the brown buildings are on the other side of the road. Keep your eyes open if you need one! You will continue on into the forest until you get to a little blue pedestrain bridge and a service road.
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23.5k
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Take the service road eastbound, the same way you were going past the sport fields on your right. There are bathrooms with running water in the little brown building on your left or across the field in the Kinsmen Sport Center. You can also buy snacks and Starbucks coffee in the cafeteria. Stay left after the bathrooms to get onto the next trail. |
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When the trail spits you out, continue on the paved path that leads under the bridge (walterdale bridge) which will lead you on a paved path up a short steepish hill. At the top of that hill, turn down or left, and continue in the park... the other way leads to the road. There are more bathrooms with runing water here. Continue on said paved path until you get to James Macdonald Bridge.
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24k
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From James MacDonald bridge, keep going straight on the south side of the river. You will pass the low level bridge and then come to a long steady uphill. Half way up you will see a dirt trail on your left. Get onto it and follow it until you are forced back onto a paved path. You will pass by the Dawson Bridge.
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26k
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You will then pass by Capilano footbridge and keep going on a dirt path which you will find closest to the river. You will get onto a paved section, and then back onto a dirt section, ending up at the Rundle Park footbridge (37k). Cross over it and go right or eastbound. There are bathrooms, snacks and water at Rundle Park.
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30k
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Follow the paved path until it hooks onto a dirt path on your right. You will follow this path until it feeds you back onto a paved path as it passes by Beverly and Cloverbar bridges. Take the paved path to your left at the Y intersection.
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Continue along the paved path until you can get off on a dirt path to your left. Follow this path until it becomes pavement. This is your turn-around! Half way there!
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40k
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Retrace your steps to get back to Rundle Park Bridge. Cross it back to where you came from and continue on until you get to the next bridge, the Capilano Footbridge. Cross it.
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43k
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Keep going on this path, passing Capilano Bridge, on the trail closest to the river. You will be fed back onto a paved path. You are now in Dawson Park Offleash Area. Be careful!
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60 k
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There is a dirt trail to the left towards the river from the paved path. There is also a bathroom with running water in the main pavillion. Follow the conveluded system of paved trails/dirt pathes/residential roads until you get into a park by the name of Lousie McKinney. You will be fine as long as you stay on the designated bike route or closest as you can to the river.
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64k |
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You will soon find yourself at the entrance to a park with a Chinese gazebo. Cross the red pedestrian bridge into Cloverdale. Follow the path straight across the next footbridge. Continue down the path past the greenhouses, then turn left and follow the service road immediately beside the greenhouses onto the path and up over the pedestrian bridge (turn right atthe T and right at the Y to get there) then into the Millcreek Ravine. |
69k
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Follow the trail until you see the sign for Millcreek Ravine Pool (or the Whytemud overhead) - then turn-around and head back the same way over both pedestrian bridges into Louise McKinney Park. The pool may let you use the bathroom but there are oftrn porta-potties on the trail. |
72k |
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Turn left after the pedestrian bridge into Louise McKinney Park and follow the path as it curves closest to the river. You will eventually arrive back at Groat Bridge, after passing the golf course on your right hand side at the end of River Valley Road. Cross the road (River Valley Road) and climb the short steep hill, then cross the bridge... go down the stairs into Emily Murphy Park. Go under left Groat Bridge and follow the dirt path back to picnic shelter #2. |
75k |
| 8pm |
Follow this path through the forest, through the park, under Groat Bridge and ont ot the upper trail or the one furthest from the river. You will follow this path back to Picnic Shelter #2... or the START/FINISH. |
50 MILES |
