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As Jason Eades has already done a commendable job describing our Western States adventures, this note will be brief.  On that day, strategy and discipline and luck converged, and we were able to achieve a pleasing result, despite my nasty chest cold, and despite »

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To repeat a 2010 Bagger Challenge ruling, all Kneeknackerers who get there qualify for a Black Bag.

You need not bowl over the hapless aid station volunteers and gain the extra 2 metres to the summit BLA proper to qualify.

GOOD LUCK EVERYONE. Protect your kidneys.

Wednesday June 22nd marks the start of the main Bagging Season, after the Howe Sound preamble for hyperkinetic baggers.

Bagger Central, as well as information on a new peak, and other innovations for this year's Bagger Challenge: www.clubfatass.com/calendar/baggerchallenge/2011

Many of us have enjoyed the glorious trail running in the Grand Canyon. Further sublime running adventures await nearby, at the cost of a cheap flight to Vegas. They are closer to Vegas, and also more runnable than the Grand Canyon.

I am a wanderer and mountain-climber, said he to his heart, I love not the plains, and it seemeth I cannot long sit still.

Bagger Challenge is back: www.clubfatass.com/events/BaggerChallenge/NorthShore

I did a post-Challenge bag of West Lion yesterday.  As glorious as the views and day were, the climb is not recommended for casual baggers without climbing experience and/or ropes and psychological fortitude. It would be crazy to attempt it in anything less than perfect weather conditions: a hint of rain or ice would make the traverse very unpleasant and dangerous.

The scariest part of the climb is at the base, where one must traverse east along a series of 75 cm-wide shelves that slope gently towards a near-certain deadly fall on the rock slopes 45 metres below.

The Bagger Challenge Champion of 2010 and recipient of the Munro Quaich is Ean Jackson.

Nothing more glorious than returning from a triumphant bagging adventure down a steep slope that is a bit technical, but not too technical, on a surface that consists primarily not of rocks and roots, but of wonderful duffy decayed cedar.  Gravity and duff combine to emulate a slalom descent.