• We have partially marked route with white foot prints on rocks, these footprints also serve for hikers using this mountain during the year for hiking paths in order to minimize new trails from wandering hikers. These white foot prints is on the trails to give you more a less direction guidance & will also be found at all junctions to help you make the correct path decisions. Runners are however advised  to familiarise themselves with the route on www.blackmountainchallenge.co.za/gps (you can also use this link on your mobile phone to navigate the route) as there could be unforeseen circumstances that may cause route markings to have been forcibly altered or removed from their original position.
• All our participants are responsible to follow the markers on the route & not just blindly follow the person ahead of you, if you dont see any markers for longer than 500m you should return to the last marker you saw and continue from there again, alternatively call the race organiser on your bib to help give guidance.
• Please ensure that you check in at all check points on BMC #BlackBeast Extreme or Lite race. BIg SKy Trail Run on Day 2 has one fully stocked check point.
• The race sweeper will follow the last runner that has communication with organisers, support vehicles & emergency ambulance & crew at check points.
• There will be ER24 ambulance & qualified medical crew in position to assist at any time, the ambulance can access most points of race, support vehicles as well as the game reserve rangers on the trails are there to support when needed.
• Check point 1 of BlackBeast Extreme is just before the mountain climb of Heavens Ladder, there will be another quick kit check, the those runners without the compulsory kit can be disqualified there if not complying on race rules, we doing this purely for your safety.
• Like any sport, trail running also comes with its risk of injuries, please be careful & vigilant at all times. The compulsory kit for the BlackBeast event on Day 1 purely for your own safety so that we can be assured that you will be fine until assistance arrive during an unforeseen emergency.
• You are a trail runners because you enjoy the beauty of nature & the unpredictability of weather conditions like fire, flooding, lightning, hail storms, loose rocks, wild animals, snakes etc and all the other outdoor elements which is not in control of organisers. The Organisers has the right to stop the race at any given time and his decision will be final should the Organisers feel that this is at best interest of all participants safety. If the race has to be stopped during the race for reasons beyond the control of the supplier, the participant will not be entitled to a refund.
• Any participant that wants to withdraw at any stage during of the race should please inform the race director immediately, you can do so by phoning or SMS the race director or emergency number on your race Bib number or by informing the sweeper or course manager, please also inform us that you have been taken of the course, you safely back & where you withdrew. BlackBeast Extreme participants can also migrate to the BlackBeast Lite prior to race but will have to communicate with race director to approve this.
• We have a race cut-off time which is 5pm (10 hours for Extreme) for BlackBeast Extreme and Lite, which means we expect all racers to finish no later than 17:00 (race starts 7am), this allows hikers to hike the complete route, the slowest hikers finish with time of 9h00m and the average hiker walks this route in 8 hours, the front runners start coming in at 4h30m & the average runner around from 6 hours to complete the Extreme.
• The Big Sky Trail Run race starts 8am, its flat 10km jeep and single track, the first runners start finishing around 40 min & the average runner 1h10, the hikers walking the Big Sky casually finish it in 2 hours. There are 1 check points with water and snacks, one of the check point will have ER24 ambulance & crew waiting to assist, support vehicles behind last sweeper & runner, as well as the front runner.

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