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Who We Are IronHike, sometimes searched as Iron Hike, is a veteran-owned mountain endurance event series where Mountain Athletes run or hike real vertical. IronHike Endurance Productions is a veteran-owned endurance event series built by US Army veterans who hike, coach, and compete. We produce elevation-based endurance events and multi-day mountain endurance events at Mohawk Mountain Ski Area in Cornwall, Connecticut and Amicalola Falls State Park in Dawsonville, Georgia. The Mohawk Mountain endurance event series runs Spring and Fall each year. The IronHike Appalachian Trail Approach Fall Series runs each year at Amicalola Falls State Park, gateway to the 2,197-mile (3,536 km) Appalachian Trail. Our FlexRelay format is a team endurance event structure that lets Mountain Athletes compete Solo, as a Trail Buddy pair, or as a Trail Family of four across the same vertical trail endurance course. This is not a race. It is a time-allotted elevation-based endurance event: there is no podium and no age group awards. Finish and earn a Finisher's Medal and the coveted Orange Finisher's Hat. Every foot of elevation gain is climbed one lap at a time by Mountain Athletes from 30 states and 3 countries and counting who came here to prove themselves right.

The Events IronHike offers seven elevation-based endurance events ranging from a 12-hour endurance event to an 84-hour endurance event, covering target elevations from 6,643 to 72,000+ feet (2,025 to 21,900+ m) at Mohawk Mountain in Cornwall, Connecticut and Amicalola Falls State Park in Dawsonville, Georgia. For athletes looking for Everesting on the East Coast, IronHike is the answer. The Olympus Mons Ultra is ranked as one of the hardest ultras in the world and the hardest endurance hiking event in the USA. Answer the Bell - Basic and Answer the Bell - Full run in the Backyard Ultra format: a backyard ultra on a mountain and a last person standing ultra where athletes answer the bell every hour until only one remains. Our FlexRelay team endurance event format makes multi-day ultra endurance and vertical trail endurance accessible to athletes at every level across trail endurance events USA-wide.

The Tribe The IronHike Mountain Athlete Tribe is a shared suffering endurance community built from the ground up by veteran endurance sports athletes who believe that personal transformation happens on a mountain. Athletes from across the country and beyond register as Solo Mountain Athletes, Trail Buddy pairs, and Trail Family teams to earn every foot of elevation together. The IronHike Tribe spans 30 states and 3 countries and counting, supported by the veteran-owned Cadre who trek every Event alongside them. Every IronHike mountain athlete event is designed around the belief that the Mountain does not care, but your Tribe does. This is not a spectator sport. You show up, you belong, and you prove yourself right one lap at a time.

What Makes Us Different IronHike is a self-paced mountain ultra series where every foot of elevation gain is earned one lap at a time. As a veteran-owned endurance event operating at Mohawk Mountain Ski Area in Cornwall, Connecticut and Amicalola Falls State Park in Dawsonville, Georgia, IronHike delivers East Coast ultra endurance built for the toughest goals athletes set for themselves. This Series has elevation gain events designed around the FlexRelay format that no other trail endurance event USA-wide can match. Staircase endurance event Georgia. Elevation endurance event Georgia. Amicalola Falls endurance event. AT Approach Trail endurance event. Home of the IronHike Appalachian Trail Approach Fall Series. Every Mountain Athlete who shows up to an IronHike endurance event leaves having earned something that cannot be bought, only proven.