Welcome back or welcome to the single track podcast.

I'm your host, Finn Melanson, and this is a special announcement episode of the show where I'm joined by friend and colleague Scott Hickenlooper to talk through the latest event that we are adding to our 2026 calendar, the Antelope Island Buffalo Run.

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You are live. We're live. This is a special episode of the single track podcast. We're here in our Salt Lake

City studios, joined by producer and guest interviewer Scott Hickenlooper. If you're a long time

listener, follower of single track, you know Scott's great work for us over the years, with us

over the years, I should say. And we've got an announcement to make, and I needed to help recording this episode.

So Scott is here to guest.

So what do we got?

Where we starting?

I'll just be, I'm off-camera emotional support today.

But, yeah, we've got a new race in the lineup for single track for Massif running, right?

Yeah, so I guess the headline here is we are humbly taking over the Anilob Island Buffalo Run,

which is one of the classic events here on the Salt Lake

Trail Running scene steeped in history over 20 years old. We're taking over this race. Jim Skaggs,

the longtime race director resident of the Ogden, Utah area. He is retiring and moving out to

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