The 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace is a trail running festival that includes a variety of races around the Palisades Tahoe ski area in Olympic Valley, California, from June 19 through 22. We’ll be covering the Ascent on Friday, June 20, and the 23k on Sunday, June 22.
Friday’s 3-mile (4.8 kilometers) Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent is a Mountain Running World Cup race that will climb 3,000 feet (914 meters) from the base of the ski area to the top of Washeshu Peak. It will also serve as a selection race for Team USA for the Uphill race at September’s World Mountain Running Championships in Spain.
Sunday’s Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k is a single clockwise loop of a 13.5-mile (21.8k) course. While the course has a few rolls, the total elevation gain of 4,700 feet (1,433 meters) is only roughly 50% more than the Ascent’s uphill-only course. The 23k is both a Mountain Running World Cup race as well as a Golden Trail World Series race.
The Ascent starts on Friday, June 20, at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), while the 23k begins on Sunday, June 22, at 8:40 a.m. PDT for the women and 9 a.m. for the men.
We’ll share stories from before, during, and after both races on iRunFar’s X feed with text and photo reports from all over the course on race days. We’ll also be live blogging the same material as on X below in this article. We’re also embedding the live video feed of the Ascent below.
Thanks to the World Mountain Running Association for supporting iRunFar’s 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace coverage.
Patrick Kipngeno and Joyce Muthoni Njeru, the 2024 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent winners. Photo: World Mountain Running Association/Jonathan Wyatt
Resources for Following the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent and 23k
- iRunFar’s in-depth previews of the Ascent and the 23k;
- iRunFar’s forthcoming pre-race video interviews with top athletes in the Ascent and 23k;
- Our 23k results article from 2024;
- The Broken Arrow Skyrace website, with Broken Arrow Ascent and Broken Arrow 23k pages providing the course maps and elevation profiles, aid stations, technical data, and more; and
- The race administration’s live splits, where relevant.
Eli Hemming on his way to taking second at the 2024 Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k. Photo: Andy Wacker
iRunFar’s Live Blog of the 2025 Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent and 23k
Here we’re live blogging the progress of the Broken Arrow Ascent on Friday and the Broken Arrow Skyrace 23k on Sunday, and sharing the exact same content as on our X feed. Enjoy viewing it right here or over on X! Also, give it just a moment to load, once you arrive.
Live Video Feed of the Broken Arrow Skyrace Ascent
[Editor’s Note: We’ll embed the Ascent video feed here, once it becomes available before the race starts on Friday. We’re unsure if a live video feed of the 23k will be available to embed, but we’ll embed that too if we are able ahead of Sunday race day.]
