The Blue 2 Blue Challenge

This Fat Ass is a Graduate Level run, meaning you will be on some of CT's most technical and gnarly trails: first the Regicides (West Rock's "Blue" trail) and then The Quinnipiac Trail (another of CT's famed Blue trails). Hence, the Blue 2 Blue Challenge (h/t Alex McDaniel for the idea). There's probably a good 6,000 feet of climbing and the majority of it is extremely technical.

Course description: this is an out-and-back starting at West Rock Playground (alternately named "Amrhyn Field") in New Haven, climbing up the Westville Feeder Trail and depositing you onto Regicides for about 6+ miles of some of the gnarliest, rockiest trail you can imagine. Then, the fun really starts as you climb up High Rock to the intersection of the Q Trail. You will follow blue blazes down to the first aid station at Brooks Rd, then climb up to Mad Mare Ridge before…