← All eventsThe Bear 100
A classic Rocky Mountain Slam 100-miler: point-to-point across the Bear River Range from Utah into Idaho, ~22,000ft of climbing at peak autumn colour, cold high nights, 36h cutoff. Date approximate (last weekend of September).
Twenty-two thousand feet of climbing, and every foot of it comes back down. The Bear is a point-to-point traverse of the Bear River Range, from Logan, Utah north into Idaho, run at peak autumn colour.
It is one of the Rocky Mountain Slam 100s. Big mountain climbs, quad-loading descents, golden aspens by day and a high forest that freezes hard after dark.
The 36-hour cutoff gives most runners room to finish. Nothing softens the vertical or the cold, though. Survive the descents and keep eating through the night, and the Bear is yours.
Is The Bear 100 for you?
- Runners with a mountain-ultra base ready for their first Rocky Mountain 100. The vert and the cold night are the real test here, not the altitude, which stays moderate.
- Strong descenders. There is as much descending as climbing, and untrained quads are the classic Bear DNF long before the finish line.
- Runners who stay warm and keep eating. Cold masks appetite and thirst, and under-fuelling in the dark ends more races here than the climbs do.
- Anyone happy to power-hike the climbs and grind out a long time on feet, chasing autumn colour and a finish rather than a fast time.
Training plan for The Bear 100
A training plan for The Bear 100 isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- Relentless climbing that must be power-hiked, not raced, straight out of the Logan valley and over the range.
- As much descending as climbing, hammering the quads all the way down to Bear Lake.
- A high forest night that freezes hard, with early-season snow, mud or cold rain all possible.
- Cold that kills your appetite exactly when you most need to keep eating and drinking.
- Long mountain runs building from 3 hours out to 7 to 9 hour days on real climbs and descents.
- Downhill repeats and long descent finishes to condition the quads for the eccentric load.
- Cold evening and overnight runs with full kit, rehearsing layering and fuelling in the dark.
- Power-hike repeats with poles, plus back-to-back weekends like a 7-hour Saturday into a 5-hour Sunday.
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
