Saddleback Marathon April 26, 2025

California's premiere trail marathon was first run in the Saddleback Mountains of the Cleveland National Forest in 1988. An annual event for nearly three decades, it was cancelled in 2018 (#HolyFire)on its 30th anniversary. We were back in 2019, re-routed, and then cancelled by the pandemic in 2020 and back again in 2023, again re-routed. This year, 2024, we were set to go out of Blue Jay Campground again but then . . . Airport Fire in Trabuco Cyn burned thousands of acres including Blue Jay and much of our course. So, we are re-routing for April's race. We're still in the Trabuco District, Cleveland National Forest but we'll be going out of Black Star Canyon instead.