How the Hardrock 100 Brought Graduate-Level Endurance to a Mining Town

Rescue workers involved in cleanup of the March 17, 1906 avalanche at the Shenandoah Mine on King Solomon Mountain, bringing corpses down from that disaster by way of Cunningham Gulch

Rescue workers involved in cleanup of the March 17, 1906 avalanche at the Shenandoah Mine on King Solomon Mountain, bringing corpses down from that disaster by way of Cunningham Gulch

1888 Photo of Miners outside workings in Arrastra Gulch

1888 Photo of Miners outside workings in Arrastra Gulch

On top of the Ophir Needles PHOTO CREDIT TO Sarah Lavender Smith

On top of the Ophir Needles PHOTO CREDIT TO Sarah Lavender Smith

1920 Unidentified rider and horse overlooking Little Giant Basin

1920 Unidentified rider and horse overlooking Little Giant Basin

For over thirty years now, the town of Silverton has barely had a chance to shut its eyes from the revelry of the 4th of July before waking to welcome some of the most elite athletes in the world for the Hardrock 100 Endurance Run. Starting and ending in Silverton each year, the course consists of 101.8 miles over some of the toughest terrain in the continental United States. With 33,264 feet of e…