In the century-old sport of ultrarunning, States was the first 100 mile ultra-trail run: a race filled with beauty and toughness, surrounded by stories, some historical and some fanciful, born in Auburn, California, the endurance capital of the world. Celebrate the 50th running of States by discovering the origins of the names of the places through which we run on the Western States Trail from Olympic Valley to Auburn. The trail, the history, the people; all part of the fiber that binds States together to be the mother lode of trail running.