The Future of Steep Camp & The Silverton 1000

Jamil CouryNews

This story has two parts. A long and a short. I will start with the short as it has important information regarding this year’s Silverton Steep Camp (formerly known as the Silverton 1000 Multi-Day Challenge). Cancellation of 2019 Steep Camp Silverton Due to increasing costs with renting the venue at the Kendall Mountain Recreation Area which is owned by the Town of Silverton we have had to make the tough decision to not hold this event in 2019. We hope to find a way forward to again hold Steep Camp in 2020 but just cannot do so at the current revised rates. As you will read below in the long version, this event is very …

Aravaipa Trail Talk Is Back!

Jamil CouryAravaipa Trail Talk

After a long hiatus, we are reviving our weekly YouTube show aptly named “Aravaipa Trail Talk”. This show has evolved a couple of times starting out as a chat with Aravaipa founder Jamil Coury and evolving to feature athletes and trail running business owners in the community and recently with our new co-host Jubilee Paige a Q&A show. So where are we headed now? The show will return with weekly episodes ranging from 30 to 60 minutes in length featuring a variety of topics moving forward. Each show will be co-hosted with either Jamil, Jubilee or both of us and sometimes special guests and other staff members. We’d like to use this platform as a …

A Record Year at Whiskey Basin Trail Runs

Jamil CouryRace Report

When I saw him come into the mile 45 aid station at Badger Mountain he was ahead of schedule just as he had been all day. There was some dried blood on his hand and some fresh stuff still running down his right knee but he had a pleasant demeanor as he calmly stepped off the trail up towards us. When approached by the cheerful Squirrel’s Nut Butter team at the Badger Mountain Aid perched atop a juniper covered hillside overlooking Granite Mountain and most of Prescott, Arizona he politely asked if we had a cup. He was hoping for a drink of water. “I lost my water bottle off a cliff back there. Took …

#WhoWeAre – Aravaipa Group Trail Run

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Community. That’s the one word that comes above all others when I think about the Aravaipa Group Trail Run and what it means to me. Building a community around the trail running scene is what we set out to do when we formed the weekly one hour trail run in 2011. Back then, the group met up each week in Tempe at Papago Park and a handful of us went for a run followed by a couple of beers at Papago Brewery. It was small, close-knit and a fun way to catch up with our friends each week outside of races and long runs. Aravaipa Group Trail Run has grown over the years and changed …

Desert Runner Trail Series Points Standings

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The 2016-2017 Desert Runner Trail Series is coming to a close just in time for the weather to really heat up here in Phoenix. The 7th and final race in the series is the Mesquite Canyon Trail Runs on March 18 at White Tank Mountain Regional Park. We thought it would be fun and beneficial to update everyone on the current point standings. Since the final race in the series is worth more points (1250 instead of 1000) this one can really shake things up. The full point standings are currently on Ultrasignup for both the Ultra Series & Trail Series (they have been calculated through Elephant Mountain). We are recapping the top ten men and women in …

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CEO Recap from Jamil

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Wow, it’s already November. The evenings are getting dark early and mornings here in Phoenix have started to become (almost) chilly. That means one thing for us here at Aravaipa:  we are just wrapping up the Javelina Jundred . It’s hard to believe that this was my 9th year as Race Director of this amazing event which has grown into the 2nd largest 100 mile foot race in North America. I agreed to take over the race back in 2007 at the ripe age of 22, the same year I graduated college and was embarking on my first “real job” at a local accounting firm. Little would I know how much that small opportunity would come to …