24 HOURS OF MADNESS

NorCal Style

- Jeff Hoggstatus

Northern California is home to some of the nation’s most iconic and well known off-road trails. People travel from across the nation, and around the world, to put rubber-to-rock and test themselves and their off road machines on some of the most challenging yet most stunningly beautiful terrain offered anywhere. Putting a ‘check’ on your bucket list for trails like The Rubicon (Jeep’s ultimate ‘trail-ready’ testing ground), Fordyce Creek (a challenging series of water crossings and infamous ‘winch hills’), Slick Rock, Deer Valley, and Strawberry Pass can easily turn a long day trip into a multi-day epic... planned or unplanned. The terrain can be tough, breakages and body damage are common, and trail traffic on some weekends and holidays can be almost as brutal as the terrain itself.

Few would even entertain the thought of running these five iconic Northern California trails back-to-back, let alone back to back within 24 hours – this would surely be madness! Drawing inspiration from the first 24 hour Hell and Back Challenge done last year on the East Coast, the first Northern California ‘24 Hours of Madness’ started to take shape.