Hikers reach their peak on Snowbasin’s 29029 course

Jason Werbelow summiting Snowbasin, again. Photo: Mitch Meyer Photography // courtesy of Jason Werbelow

SNOWBASIN, Utah — This past weekend hikers traveled from all across the country to participate in Snowbasin Resort’s 29029, which has hikers completing the equivalent of a Mt. Everest trek.

It’s 13 hikes up the face to the summit, each one is 2.3 miles with 2,310 a vertical gain per lap.  

Jason Werbelow completed the 30-mile course. “It was certainly an amazing event and I learned a lot,” he told TownLift. “I was able to finish in just under 28 hours which meant zero sleep.”

“The Life lessons,” he continued, were “time with myself, in my own head and layers upon layers of self talk, awareness and encouragement to be better will stay with me forever.”

His wife, Anita told TownLift, “I’m so incredibly proud of Jason, His commitment to training and determination to achieve his goal is admirable.” 

Jason exclaimed, in his trademark exuberant, funny, relatable, unpredictable, (and unprintable) words when he crossed the finish line that he could hardly believe he actually did it.

Wearing a bib with their names on them, participants get to burn their success symbol into the wood-results-board upon completion.

In most of these photos, as his universal hang-loose hand signal illustrates and indicates, Jason resides in Southern California, however he has extended family who live in Park City year-round. Thus he frequently travels to town to visit family and to snowboard, and not necessarily in that order.