Cool, Ca - 31.1 miles
- Start to Aid 1
- Start at the Cool Fire House
- Run down blacktop (Dam Road) ~1.4 miles.
- LEFT on the Olmstead Loop. Marked with Greenish/Blue Carsonite (Wig Wag) signs
- Proceed down and up crossing Knickerbocker Creek ~1 mile
- RIGHT on single track (Secret Trail) - This can be easily missed.
Look for small drainage after the downhill from Knickerbocker Creek
- Follow the Secret Trail.
- RIGHT on Mine Trail Follow Mine Trail for ~3/4 of a mile.
- Go left at the end. go ~.1 mile
- LEFT on Olmstead Loop (Green/Blue Carsonite Signs)- go ~.4 miles
- RIGHT on the Lake Trail. This can be easily missed.
Look for the single track trail just past the short climb on Olmstead Loop Trail
- Follow the Lake Trail to Knickerbocker Lake. Cross the spillway and veer right.
Follow this primary 2 track for ~.3 miles, make a hard left followed shortly by a hard right.
- Follow this trail and you'll cross Knickerbocker Creek for the second time.
- After crossing the creek follow the single track to your right (staying left) go ~.3 miles.
- You'll cross a small creek and come to an intersection. Go left and proceed ~.3 miles to the Cool Firehouse
- (you'll cross another creek)
- Aid 1 to Aid 2 (Lower Quarry)
- 1. From the Fire House in Cool.
- Go Counter Clockwise on the Olmstead Loop (towards Auburn).
- Follow the signs towards the Western States Trail (WST)
- Go left at the WST trail sign (Pointed Rocks Meadow) ~ 6/10ths from Cool
- Follow WST to the Lower Quarry/Highway 49 Turn Off ~ 2.3 miles
- Turn right and cross HW49
- Aid 2 to Aid 3 (Maine Bar)
- Follow the Quarry Trail to Maine Bar ~5.6 Miles
- Right at Maine Bar and proceed towards Ball Bearing/Maine Bar
- Aid 3 to Aid 4 (Auburn Lake Trails - ALT)
- At the base of Ball Bearing.
- left on the Waterfall/American Canyon
- Trail. go ~1.2 miles
- Cross the creek and proceed uphill
- Right or forward at Dead Truck/American Canyon Trail Split
- Follow this slightly uphill trail to Hobeken Creek
- Continue uphill to the Robie Trail
- Right on the Robie Trail (Brown Carsonite Signs)
- Follow this trail to ALT Aid ~2 miles
- Aid 4 to Aid 5 Goat Hill
- Continue on Robie Trail ~5 miles
- left after the foot bridge (still Robie Trail)
- After 3/10s of a mile turn right (still Robie Trail) up Goat Hill
- Goat Hill Aid ~3/10s
- Aid 5 to Aid 6 Upper Quarry Highway 49 / Finish
- Follow the Robie Trail Signs to Upper Quarry ~2.5 Miles
- Cross HW 49
- Follow Robie Trail signs back to Pointed Rocks meadow
- Split off the WST and Robie Trail and veer left towards the Cool Fire House
- Same 5/10s of a mile section you did after leaving Aid 1 (but in reverse)
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Route Info
Start Elevation - 1,520 ft
Max Elevation - 1,802 ft
Minimum Elevation - 553 ft
Net Elevation - 4,851 ft
Directions to the Run
Start at Heart & Sole Sports
EAST Fourth Street (Turns into Highway 12) - go 44 miles
EAST on Interstate 80 - go 80 miles
EXIT 119C Elm ave, "Highway 49 to Placerville"
LEFT on Elm Ave - go .1 miles
LEFT on High Street / Highway 49 - go 3 miles
RIGHT across bridge to continue on Highway 49 - go 3 miles
RIGHT on St Florian Ct.
Starting line is about .1 down the road
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