Furnace Creek 508 Race Route

	ONLINE MAPS OF THE 508, STAGE BY STAGE 2D maps, elevation profiles, and 3D aerial views of the 508 route, courtesy of Doug Dog Sloan. This is a very useful resource. Also includes stage-by-stage elevation gain.
	Download the 508 route sheet as an Excel (.xls) file (2007 edition: new route from Mojave to Cali City)
	Download the twelve page route sheet (1 meg Pdf) (2007 edition: new route from Mojave to Cali City)
	NEW! GOOGLE MAPS ROUTE OF THE 508 ROUTE This is great! Cindi PitSnake Staiger put together a turn-by-turn version of the map on Google. Check it out!
	NEW! GOOGLE EARTH FLY-OVER OF THE 508 ROUTE This is really neat! Matt, a crew member for 2006 rookie entrant Jason "Wookie" Nemecek, created an entire "fly-over" of the 508 route using Google Earth. It's like flying along over the whole course in a helicopter! (Well, OK, it's like a video game version of such a flight.) It's really fun and gives the proverbial bird's eye view of the race course. Veteran and rookie entrants alike, as well as crews, will benefit from this. Crews could even download the file into a laptop, then bring it in their support vehicle. Then, they would be able to tell their rider exactly what the terrain looks like around the next turn! (Hmmm, maybe that takes a bit of the mystery out of it for first-timers.) Thanks a ton to Matt of Team Wookie for this awesome effort! You can read how it works, and download the file, by clicking the blue botton at left.
	Incredible 2D and 3D tour of the race course by Doug Dog Sloan (2002 edition; some text is out of date)
	Time Station Outline
	Course Description by Beth Dawson
	Detailed Course Description by John Hamster Hughes
	The Insider's Guide to the 508 by Mike Whale Wilson
	Furnace Creek, the story..., by Timothy S. Kinkajou Kinkeade, 1997 finisher, and Pat King, with many photos NOTE: If you read only one story about the 508 and how to do it, read this one!