The first run course has a bit of everything - cruising by the lake's edge, some climbing, panoramic views and genuine cross-country. Please note that runners MUST carry their own water or other replacement fluid.
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Start from the transition under the willows on the beach at Rushes Bay, East Jindabyne. Follow the concrete pedestrian path. Cross over the dirt road, then straight ahead onto a single track, which leads around in front of East Jindabyne. Look for a small single track leading off to the right, which leads around the top of the bay along the shoreline, then look for a 4WD track on the left, heading uphill.
Cross over the bitumen road and follow it to the right as far as it goes. After the end of the road, look for a faint single track leading to your left above the shoreline. Follow this track along the shoreline until it concludes, then turns to the LEFT, heading uphill. Turn right at the next fork onto a fainter grass track heading up towards the houses of Alpine Sands. Turn right at the next fork, heading down and up out of a gully. Turn right again in front of the houses, heading back into the trees and downhill all the way to a beach. Follow the shoreline across one rocky headland and then along another beach.
Look for the track heading up to the left at the end of this beach, into the bush. Follow this track down to another small inlet, cross to the left hand side of the beach, then turn hard right behind the tree onto the concrete path.
Turn left at the fork in the concrete path, in front of the swings, then veer right off the concrete path immediately after the lookout on your right, onto a grass track leading into the bush. Follow this track below the houses, along a short levee and briefly (for a few metres) back onto concrete. Turn right after the small sewage pump-out box onto a narrow dirt track below the houses, then left at the next fork (don't head down to the beach!)
Nearing the water, join with a trail following the shoreline around to the left. Just before you reach the third beach, turn left at a fork onto a track heading uphill. Turn left at the 4WD track and follow up the sharp hill to the transition near the inersection of Echidna Place and Rainbow Dr.
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