Get Lost Trail Race 2025
July 12-13, 2025
Over one hundred participants, supported by friends, family, and race course volunteers, challenged themselves on the 3-mile, 7-mile, 11-mile, and 1k kids race courses. There were new course records established, personal records set, first-time racers, as well as very experienced trail runners, and participants ranging in age from age 2 to 82! For full race results and further information about the 2025 Get Lost Trail Race, please visit UltraSignup Get Lost Race Page.
This year’s Get Lost Trail Race was a fabulous, family fun event,” said Tia Wold, OHA board member and Get Lost Race Director. Sarah Kliegman, OHA co-director adds, “OHA’s Get Lost Race has become a summer tradition for lots of people, businesses, and organizations who come together to participate in the festivities as racers, volunteers, and sponsors. Our hearts are full when we see the excitement for this event and for the beautiful Okanogan Highlands grow over the years!”
The Get Lost Trail Race event began on Saturday with volunteer trail stewardship in preparation for the race. All afternoon, racers and their friends and families enjoyed time together in the cool lake, exploring the surroundings, and camping out at the Lost Lake Group Camp. The festivities continued on Sunday after the races when participants and volunteers were invited to enjoy homemade lunch and refreshments, with ingredients grown by local gardeners and donated by Tonasket Natural Foods Co-op, Safeway, and Walmart. Prizes for participants and volunteers were sponsored by Lee Frank Mercantile, Iron Grill Restaurant, Goat’s Beard Mountain Supplies, North 40 Outfitters, REI, All Perked Up, Roosters Espresso, and Leaping Sheep Farms; Big 5 Sporting Goods supplied snacks for runners. Spring Creek Ranch, Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, and an anonymous donor sponsored race expenses. Green Okanogan provided infrastructure to manage recycling at the event.
Our generous sponsors and volunteers made this event possible,” added Tia. “Their community spirit helps in providing food and prizes and ensuring that the Get Lost Trail Race is healthy, safe, and fun.”
Get Lost Trail Race 2025! Registration is Open!
The date is set, the campground reserved, and registration is open! We can’t wait to see you at the 7th Annual Get Lost Trail Race!
You can find all the details about the weekend, including the schedule of events and a map of the race routes, and complete online registration at: https://ultrasignup.com/register.aspx?did=124378 or scan the QR code in the poster below. When you sign up online you guarantee that you will receive a post-race lunch, and you SERIOUSLY don’t want to miss out on the lunch.
Interested in volunteering? Send a quick message to getlost@okanoganhighlands.org. We’d love to have your help!
Settlement Reached in OHA’s Clean Water Act Suit Against Mining Companies
Okanogan Highlands Alliance (OHA) has reached a settlement with Crown Resources and Kinross Gold USA to resolve the Clean Water Act citizen suit brought by OHA in 2020 over alleged ongoing Clean Water Act discharge permit violations at and near the Buckhorn Mine.
With the agreement, the mining companies will take actions to improve water quality and promote permit compliance, including investigations of the sources, fate, and transport of pollutants at and near the mine site.
After nearly five years of litigation and settlement talks, OHA made a practical decision to enter into a settlement agreement that gets the companies working toward actions that will increase protection of the environment.
The settlement includes a process by which Crown will work with OHA to incorporate information from these investigations, as well as other sources, into a corrective action plan for the mine site. This means that Crown will meet regularly with OHA, share data and information with OHA, and work together to develop a corrective action plan for the Buckhorn Mine.
The agreement gives OHA a seat at the table and allows us to continue our decades-long commitment to independent oversight and analysis. With access to the information and data from investigations, OHA will be able to conduct analyses, help develop a remediation process, follow any changes to water quality moving forward, and sound the alarm when action should be taken.
OHA, represented by Kampmeier & Knutsen, PLLC, filed its Clean Water Act citizen suit against Crown Resources, and a parent company, Kinross Gold USA in April 2020 because of alleged ongoing violations of Crown’s Clean Water Act discharge permit for the Buckhorn Mine. Washington State’s Attorney General filed a similar suit against the mining companies in May 2020. The suits were consolidated in June 2020, but Washington State is not a party to the settlement between OHA and the mining companies and their lawsuit is ongoing.