TALIHARJA VANAKURI winter ultra endurance race 2025

TALIHARJA VANAKURI is a winter ultra endurance race mostly in darkness through east Estonia forests and bogs that runs on snowy, icy, muddy small roads and rough trails. Main race course is a linear long journey and is partly marked. Route runs mostly on hiking trails, but long sections of it are not marked and participants must navigate the course themselves with GPS device or map. Race can be done either on foot, on skis or by bike. Sun sets around 4 PM and light fades about 5 PM so a big portion of the race course will be completed in darkness. Race course can be relatively easy on road or extremely tough at times. This means there can be narrow overgrown tracks, abundance of fallen trees, muddy forest machine tracks, wet swamp, ditches or no trail at all. This course will definitely challenge all participants and will feel really uncomfortable at times. The concept of the race is, that course is in its natural condition and must be tackled as it is, as nature has left it at race day night. This can mean thick snow or deep overflowing river crossings etc or be very easy without any hindrance.