This is a suggested route for hikers and runners. I didn't take a GPS so I can't tell you the exact distance, but I reckon it is somewhere in the region of 8 kilometers or 5 miles. There are numerous options to take a shorter route or just turn back if you don't want to go that far. (If you want a longer run, there are various places in the following description where you can add an extra loop, but I'm sure there are also many other trails in this region that you can explore if you have time.)

From the residences, head south on International Mews (towards the main campus); turn right on either Lower Residence Lane or University Way towards Discovery Avenue. Turn right and cross the road up a short hill; in front of you is a square building, the Meteorology Institute. Follow the sidewalk to the left in front of that building, through the car park and into an open space towards some greenhouses. There you will see the trail head and some signs, one of which warns you about bears. (I'm told there are bears in these woods and they do get more active at certain times of the year; it always pays to be vigilant of course. No one during our visit reported any kind of bear sighting.)

The trailhead marks the beginning of the Pine Loop, which you will also find marked on campus maps. After an initial short climb, the trail levels off; keep to the main trail and ignore a couple of offshoots. After about half a mile there is an arrow pointing right. If you don't want a longer run you should turn here; the trail goes up another short sharp hill but eventually curls back on to Discovery Avenue, from which you can complete the loop advertised as 1.7 km (just over a mile). If you're ready for something longer, however, don't follow the right arrow but continue straight towards a chain link fence. The trail bends round to the left and then joins another trail where you turn right, still heading north and away from the campus. This is the Quail Flume trail.

This trail continues for a little under two miles (3 km), always with the chain link fence on your right and with pretty views over the valley to your left. Eventually the chain link fence gives way to a subdivision with houses; you will pass a children's slide set on your right. This is almost, but not quite, the end of the Quail Flume trail. Take a left turn, down another short sharp hill, and then you will see the head of another trail, the Eagle View trail, on your left.

Follow the Eagle View trail; you are running parallel to, but about a hundred yards away from (and well below), the Quail Flume trail you ran earlier. After about a mile, the trail splits in two; you can go in either direction, as the trail forms a loop at this point, but the shorter version is to head left, which is what I did. After about another 300 yards you will see a side trail going off on the left and back up the hill towards the Quail Flume trail. The two trails meet again at a small wooden bridge over a creek (totally dry on the days I was there). From this point, you can retrace your steps all the way back to campus. Remember that when you get to the end of the chain link fence, you go left again, off the Quail Flume trail, to rejoin the Pine Loop; when you get to the sign that earlier pointed right you can decide either to run the rest of the Pine Loop (which is now a left turn, of course) or do what I did and simply retrace your path back to the residences.

Although I've noted that there are some short sharp hills, this is not overall a hilly run; nothing like the trails at the Banff Center, which are much more running into the mountains and at a much higher elevation of course. So long as you are fit enough to cover the basic distance, you should not find this a tough course.