bright is the location of the buffalo stampede, which was australia's first ever sanctioned skyrunning event in april 2014 with 2 events (75 km ultra skymarathon and 42 km skymarathon). starting and finishing at howitt park, the 75 km ultra skymarathon takes runners up mystic hill, down to baker's gully, over clearspot before descending into the buckland valley. runners then make their way up keatings ridge over to eurobin creek before climbing the big walk to the mt buffalo chalet. once at the chalet runners take the underground river track to lake catani and travel through chalwell's galleries before making their way back to the chalet and retracing their steps all the way back to howitt park. the 42 km skymarathon takes on the same route but finishes at the mount buffalo chalet once runners have completed the chalet loop to lake catani and through chalwell's galleries to take them up to the 42 km mark. in 2015 a new event (the sky26er) will be a part of this event. the sky 26er will also start in howitt park before crossing the ovens river and running up and over quins gap then climbing telegraph spur to the top of mt porepunkah. once at the summit of mt porepunkah runners descend to smart creek gap before climbing tawonga gap ridge and making their way to apex lookout before they descend back into bright to finish at howitt park. with a successful debut in 2014, the buffalo stampede is set to bring record numbers of runners and supporters to the township of bright in april 2015.