Talk:Badwater Ultramarathon

California Low‑importance

	California portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject California, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CaliforniaWikipedia:WikiProject CaliforniaTemplate:WikiProject CaliforniaCalifornia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Running Mid‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Running, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of running on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RunningWikipedia:WikiProject RunningTemplate:WikiProject RunningRunning articles

Mid

This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

To-do list:
edit history watch purge tag all running related articles with {{WikiProject Running}} adding assessment and importance parameters when missing find references for articles listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Running/Unreferenced BLPs adopt an article and promote it to GA

Athletics Low‑importance

	Sport of athletics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Athletics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the sport of athletics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page and join the discussion.AthleticsWikipedia:WikiProject AthleticsTemplate:WikiProject AthleticsAthletics articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Link to Amazon

I removed the link to Amazon hidden under "known as Death Valley 300". I'm not keen enough with wiki to figure out who put it there, but keen enough to know that such advertisement breaks several rules of the wikipedia.

132.183.56.49 (talk) 19:11, 15 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled

The United States Forest Service regulations do not bar competitive events on USFS land, see the Western States Endurance Run. Is it because Whitney Portal is so busy that USFS no longer allows the race to continue to the summit...? Sanguinity 20:47, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

[1]: "In days of old the race finished at the top of Mt Whitney, but Forest Service restrictions on holding races there now prohibit that."

[2]: "In 1989, the U.S. Forest Service forced the race to end at Whitney Portal, elevation 8,360 feet – something about not holding athletic competitions in designated wilderness areas."

Of course, neither is a very reliable source. Maybe the Mount Whitney trail is considered "designated wilderness" and the Western States Trail is not. --Itinerant1 21:40, 12 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I just got confirmation from someone associated with the race -- you're right, it's because of the John Muir Wilderness that the competitive race no longer goes to the summit. Sanguinity 18:28, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect temperature claim

I removed the following text:

The air-temperature that day was reported at 139 F (59 C).

It seems like I've been adding {{fact}} and {{dubious}} to articles all day, but this one deserves to be removed. This temperature is above any official temperature ever recorded in Death Valley or on Earth.[3] Ufwuct 22:47, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

See temperature extremes.

...only temperatures recorded four feet (1.2 metres) or higher above the ground, and in the shade, are admissible...

--hello, i'm a member | talk to me! 21:41, 20 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Observed vs. recorded temperatures

Official temperature records have to be in the shade and at a certain height (and above a certain color background, to be accurate, since very white sand reflects differently even in shade than darker colors, etc) - but observed temperatures can be documented by anyone who wnats to. A reliable source, such as a park ranger or a published geologist who is taking various measurements (like the ones from 1961) should do. Citations, of course - but the government doesn't own methods of assessing temperature.

Pictures of thermometers held by neutral parties such as race officials or journalists should also count as observations.--Levalley (talk) 03:37, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Chris Moon

What about disabled Chris Moon? Firsto (talk) 09:16, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Deaths?

Ok this really needs to be added to the article. Everyone knows how the words Marathon came to place and why its called that so one can only assume that the longest run in the worst conditions imaginable (super hot) would result in deaths/.

Anybody have info, if my some crazy chance there wasnt any, that should very much be noted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.30.143.5 (talk) 22:11, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I don't believe there have ever been any deaths of race participants. It is very difficult to qualify for this race and runners are required to have crews and pacers to support them. The number of participants is capped at 100 and fewer people generally tends to mean fewer deaths for any events. There is also at least 1 check in station during the race to ensure runners are healthy enough to continue. UNLVBen (talk) 18:42, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Badwater Ultramarathon. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:14, 24 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 external links on Badwater Ultramarathon. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 17:19, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]