RacesMoab desert rim, Utah
Moab's Red Hot 50K
Index card: facts and a plan, no score. RaceWorth scores only the fly-for-this catalog.
Seven Mile / Gemini Bridges area, Moab, Utah, United States
Index card · facts and a plan
The card
Moab's Red Hot 50K starts 7:00am on February 27, 2027 at the Seven Mile / Gemini Bridges parking area northwest of Moab. Mad Moose publishes about 4,639 feet of gain to a 5,728-foot high point on jeep roads and rim singletrack, with CalTopo, PDF, and GPX course files. The 2027 race guide lists aid at Gold Bar and Metal Masher with a 12:15pm cutoff at Gold Bar (mile 18.5) and a 6:00pm finish cutoff (mile 31). Crew access is finish-only; drop bags return to the finish; the event is cupless. UltraSignup counted 175 / 162 / 169 finishers in the 2026 / 2025 / 2024 55K fields (prior distance label for this product).
Weekend
Official handbook facts
- Start
- 07:00
- Crew
- 31 mi
- Drop bags
- 31 mi
- Pacer
- Unpublished, checked 2026-09-06
- Kit
- Required · Cupless event - reusable cup or bottle/pack required per RD page and race guide.
- Course file
- Open
Mad Moose Moab's Red Hot event page + 2027 Race Guide aid chart · retrieved 2026-09-06 (repo record)
Aid and cutoffs
2027 edition
- Gold Bar4.5 mi
- Metal Masher12.5 mi
- Gold Bar18.5 mi · 5.25h cutoff
- Gold Bar26.5 mi
- Finish Line31 mi · 11h cutoff
drive.google.comretrieved 2026-09-06 (repo record)
Required kit
2027 edition · RD list
Reusable cup or bottle/pack
Required - cupless event. Mad Moose HydraPak cups available for purchase at packet pickup.
Headlamp
Race guide stresses a good headlamp for after sundown; desert temperatures drop fast at night.
Warm layers
Race guide: carry layers for night safety on remote jeep trails.
No formal mandatory-kit check desk published beyond cupless and night-safety guidance in the 2027 race guide (checked 2026-09-06).
madmooseevents.comretrieved 2026-09-06
Field
Last editions · 50K scored distance
Field evidence: who showed up, who finished, how long. DNF is that evidence, not a difficulty score. Public results, scored distance only.
2026
Counted finished status from UltraSignup JSON results/124852/1/json (175 finished). Page distances listed as 50 Miler, 55K, 33K, 15K - this did is the 55K sibling to 124851 (50M).
- Starters
- .
- Finishers
- 175
- DNF
- –
- Win
- .
- Median
- .
2025
Counted from results/114448/1/json (162 finished). 55K sibling to 114447.
- Starters
- .
- Finishers
- 162
- DNF
- –
- Win
- .
- Median
- .
2024
Counted from results/102919/1/json (169 finished). 55K sibling to 102918.
- Starters
- .
- Finishers
- 169
- DNF
- –
- Win
- .
- Median
- .
2027 RD marketing uses 50K; prior UltraSignup years labeled the same mid-distance product 55K.
Overall field only. Not a pro or sponsored subset.