Registration parties to popular mountain running festival give priority to locals
EBS STAFF
The Rut Mountain Runs will return to Big Sky on Sept. 13-15, 2024, following the traditional courses—in 2023, Lone Peak Tram construction re-routed some events to avoid the summit of 11,166-foot Lone Mountain.
Registration for all events will open at 8 a.m. Mountain Time on Jan. 9. Volunteers from 2023 will have priority registration, open from Jan. 2-6.
On Jan. 8, registration parties will give sign-up priority to the event’s three largest local communities: Bozeman, Big Sky and Missoula. Registering for the Rut is competitive with events known to reach capacity in minutes, so the registration parties alleviate that pressure.
The Jan. 8 parties are hosted at the following locations:
Big Sky: Vista Hall at Big Sky Resort, 4-6 p.m.
Bozeman: The Mountain Project, 7-9 p.m.
Missoula: The Runner’s Edge, 6-8 p.m.
Each registrant must physically attend the party in order to register, with no exceptions for family and friends, according to event organizers.
Race Director Mike Foote is most excited that the VK, 28K and 50K events will return to their traditional route including the mountain summit.
“We are also looking forward to building on the success of the new 21K in 2023,” Foote wrote in an email to EBS. “We now have three very full days of events keeping the energy high all weekend long.”
