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At 40+ hr print time I’m well past the cutoff hopefully I’m a little quicker on race day.

The 2026 course from Logan to Bear Lake. Trails in red, streams in blue, with the Logan at one end and Bear Lake at the other. The course was more or less the same for all four of my starts, but this year is a pretty big departure, so I wanted to see the changes laid out before race day.

The colors are tuned for late September. The aspens are turning, same as they will be on race day.

Now I just need to figure out how to strap
It to my vest so I can reference it on race day.

The terrain comes from two sources: pre-dam surveys of the main channel and major tributaries of Glen Canyon, plus modern lidar for the smaller side canyons and surrounding plateau. Anything that’s underwater today is printed in translucent emerald green, so when you backlight it, what glows is the flooded canyon.

You can see the old shoreline where the translucent layers meet the tan. All those drowned meanders and tributary canyons have been underwater for 60 years.

I grew up boating on Lake Powell and love it, but my grandpa floated Glen Canyon before the dam, and ever since reading Life After Dead Pool I’ve dreamed of doing the same. Everything that glows here is the canyon he saw.

The terrain comes from two sources: pre-dam surveys of the main channel and major tributaries of Glen Canyon, plus modern lidar for the smaller side canyons and surrounding plateau. Anything that’s underwater today is printed in translucent emerald green, so when you backlight it, what glows is the flooded canyon.

You can see the old shoreline where the translucent layers meet the tan. All those drowned meanders and tributary canyons have been underwater for 60 years.

Printed in sections, mostly on a Snapmaker U1, with an LED strip in the frame. Elevation runs through a non-linear vertical exaggeration curve (log-based) so the canyons keep their depth without the peaks going cartoonish. Terrain is CC3D Rock PLA in Sandstone, the underwater layers are Atomic Filament emerald green PLA.

I grew up boating on Lake Powell and love it, but my grandpa floated Glen Canyon before the dam, and ever since reading Life After Dead Pool I’ve dreamed of doing the same. Everything that glows here is the canyon he saw.

The terrain comes from two sources: pre-dam surveys of the main channel and major tributaries of Glen Canyon, plus modern lidar for the smaller side canyons and surrounding plateau. Anything that was underwater at high water mark (1983) is printed in translucent blue-green material, so when it’s backlit, what glows is the flooded canyon.

You can see the lake’s shoreline where the translucent layers meet the tan. All those drowned meanders and tributary canyons have been submerged for over 60 years.

I grew up boating on Lake Powell and love it, but my grandpa floated Glen Canyon before the dam, and ever since reading Life After Dead Pool I’ve dreamed of doing the same. Everything that glows here is the canyon he saw.

The terrain comes from two sources: pre-dam surveys of the main channel and major tributaries of Glen Canyon, plus modern lidar for the smaller side canyons and surrounding plateau. Anything that’s underwater today is printed in translucent blue-green filament, so when you backlight it, what glows is the flooded canyon.

You can see the lake’s shoreline where the translucent layers meet the tan. All those drowned meanders and tributary canyons have been underwater for 60 years.

Printed in sections, mostly on a Snapmaker U1, with an LED strip in the frame. The underwater layers are Atomic Filament translucent Emerald Green PLA.

I grew up boating on Lake Powell and love it, but my grandpa floated Glen Canyon before the dam, and ever since reading Life After Dead Pool I’ve dreamed of doing the same. Everything that glows here is the canyon he saw.