July 3, 2024

Hard Fall Race Update #3 and Pre-Race Briefing

Racer Guide Has Been UPDATED! Below is a summary of the changes: MOST IMPORTANT UPDATE: The race will now be finishing at noon on Sunday, with no change to the 9AM Saturday start time. That means you will now get up to 27hrs of amazing racing instead of the measly 24hrs we had originally planned. More for your […]

June 24, 2024

Team Fill Deadline 7/17/24

Hard Fall Racer slots to be released 7/17/24 Hello! You are receiving this email because you are signed up as part of a currently incomplete team (for example your team is registered as a 4-person team but only 3 members are signed up etc.) In effort to give waitlisted racers reasonable notice and opportunity to […]

May 24, 2024

Hard Fall Racer Guide/Deadlines

2024 Hard Fall Racer Guide Has Been Published! If any updates occur between now and race day, we will notify you by email as well. CLICK HERE FOR THE RACER GUIDE Fill out those teams – July 17th Deadline We do our very best to accommodate last minute additions – we also have several deadlines […]

May 6, 2024

Hard Fall Racer Update #2

Hello! Hope you are getting excited for this summer’s race! We wanted to share a few important pieces of information: If you are planning to book a room at Mt Snow Resort, you can use the group code “SSNGRE24” or the group name “Green Mountain Adventure Race August 2024” for 20% discount. As of now […]

April 6, 2024

2024 Hard Fall Race Update #1

34 teams have already signed up for this year’s race! Of those, exactly half signed up in the packraft division. In addition, we have been able to source a sizable number of rafts for use by those that do not own their own packrafts. As a result, we have decided to move to a packraft […]

March 26, 2024

2024 GMARA Event Schedule

We’ve fielded lots of questions about our 2024 schedule. It’s exciting to see all the interest! Thanks for your patience while we sorted through what was possible. After hosting last year’s USARA National Championships, we needed some time to see who had energy to focus on this year’s events. We will be hosting the 24-hour […]

September 19, 2023

USARA Nationals Results

This past weekend was a special one for GMARA – when we started hosting races 20 years ago, bringing the national championship to Vermont wasn’t something anyone expected. Thank you to USARA for the opportunity, thanks to the teams for racing, thanks to the sponsors for making the event special, and thanks to Smugglers’ Notch […]

September 26, 2022

2023 USARA Nationals

What’s that you say? The USARA National Championships are coming to Vermont in 2023? In this case, the rumors are very true! GMARA is proud to be designing and hosting Nationals next year. We are hard at work on designing a worthy 30-hour race course. The race is currently full and many teams are on […]

August 15, 2022

2022 Bitter Pill – Results

The Bitter Pill returned to familiar terrain for 2022, starting from Blush Hill Country Club in Waterbury on a crisp 49º morning.

August 2, 2022

2022 Bitter Pill Racer Update #2 (#1 was not posted, but would not be valid anyways)

Racers – you should have received this in your inbox. Hi Racers! We are just a week and half away from 12 hours of epic adventuring by foot, bike, and boat.  In the 11th hour, we got some good news regarding course design resulting in a few changes that we are excited to share. 1) […]