The following advice is to help 2017 participants avoid any access and routing frustrations during any reconnaissance trips that you may have the luxury to enjoy!

We are soon to issue the final version of the route, after a winter period of route review. In the background, we are also soon to commit the map to the printers, via our mapping partner Harvey Maps. Generally this review has been to finesse the Recommended Route for best flow, least resistance and most intuitive navigability.

Please note the article below is purely fictitious - It was released on April Fool’s Day 2017.

In an eleventh hour move, organisers of the 2017 Berghaus Dragon's Back Race™ have announced that the final day of the race will be extended to reach Mumbles, Swansea Bay. The decision was confirmed on the back of feedback from 2015 race winner Jim Mann, who pointed out that the traverse of Wales previously finished an unsatisfying ~20 miles inland at Llandeilo.

We’ve got some really exciting developments for all participants ahead of May.

We will be publishing the final route around the end of March, which will confirm the long-awaited detail on the mandatory and recommended sections. We’re happy to confirm at this point that the mandatory sections are minimal.

As we write, course planner Gary is out in the field putting the finishing touches to the 2017 mapping work. So what’s changed you might ask? How much is there really to change since 2015?

The 4th edition of the Berghaus Dragon’s Back Race takes place this May 22nd-26th 2017. The race, now one of the top bucket list running events in the world, first took place in 1992 before being rekindled in 2012 by Shane Ohly of Ourea Events. By 2015, the race had earned itself the tagline of the ‘toughest mountain race in the world’.