Is crew access allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, crew access is allowed on the 100K course. Crew may meet a runner only at the crew-accessible aid stations (Start/Finish, Candy Mountain, McBee Parking). A runner who meets crew anywhere else is disqualified.

Are drop bags allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, drop bags are allowed on the 100K course. Two drop bag locations: McBee Parking (miles 18 and 31) and the Start/Finish (mile 50 and again at the finish). Bags go to the check-in area on race morning and are transported. Write name, bib number and "McBee Parking / 100K" or "Start-Finish / 100K" on each bag.

Are pacers allowed on the 100K course?

Yes, pacers are allowed on the 100K course. A pacer may join starting at mile 50. One pacer at a time, joining at the Start/Finish aid station at mile 50 or at Candy Mountain. Pacers do not register; they pick up a bib at packet pickup or at the start/finish after the race has started.

What is the cutoff time for the 100K course?

The overall time limit for the 100K course is 32 hours 30 minutes from the start. The race calls this cut-off very generous: you have as much time on the course as the 100-milers.

Ultras · US · WA

Badger Mountain Challenge

100K · 62.7 miles

On the calendar

The date is set. Entry has not opened. Registration opens November 30, 2026.

Race dateMarch 26-27, 2027

Duration2 days

Start7:00am

Whenin 153 days

Who's going to Badger Mountain Challenge?

I'm running itPlan your weeks and your aid station times I'm crewingWhen to leave, where to park, at every stop I'm pacing or cheeringAsk your runner for their Out Here link

Free. You can start with nothing.

Official website Entry Aid stations Notify me if this race changes

Free, and always will be. NavRun makes money from race-day planning for runners who want it, never from this. Ultras change constantly, sometimes the morning of. Always confirm with the race director and the official website before you rely on anything here.

Distance The race

62.7 miles

Climb

10,622 ft

Descent Our math

9,832 ft We worked this out from what the race prints.

High point The race

2,000 ft

Time limit Our math

32:30:00 The race says “The 100K race has a very generous cut-off, as you have as much time on the course as the 100-milers. (100-milers:…”. We worked this out from that.

Aid stations

Started

not checked yet

Finished

not checked yet

Finish rate

not checked yet

The course

Where it goes · 14 aid stations

Course line from the race's own GPX. Source file. Year of this file not known.

The 50-mile course, then back out to the top of Candy Mountain to tear the page you were assigned out of a book and carry it to the finish. It starts Friday at 7:00 AM with the 100-milers and 50-milers, and has as much time on the course as the 100-milers.

The race recommends at least one mountainous 50K before this one. Several steep 800' to 1000' climbs, about 7.5 miles of pavement with the rest on dirt and rock, and ridges that can be very windy. Runners cannot leave the course and return.

The race

What this one is

A March ultramarathon weekend in Richland, Washington, on and around Badger Mountain and Candy Mountain, with 100-mile, 100K, 50-mile and 55K ultras plus a 15K, ruck divisions of the 50-mile and 15K, and a Friday-and-Saturday 50-mile plus 55K double. Trails are single track, rocky jeep roads and dirt roads with short paved stretches. The race is run by the Nomad Trail Runners of Eastern Washington, with proceeds going to local trail and youth groups.

Getting in

Getting in Entry, lottery and what the race asks of you before race day.

Lottery: not checked yet

Lottery opens: not checked yet

Lottery draw: not checked yet

Field cap: not checked yet

Registration: UltraSignup badgermountainchallenge.com

Qualifying: No qualifying race is required. badgermountainchallenge.com

Minimum age: not checked yet

Transfers: not checked yet

Deferrals: not checked yet

Running, crewing, pacing or still deciding

How NavRun helps with Badger Mountain Challenge

You are running it

You reach McBee Parking, mile 31.5, and you already knew this morning what time that would be.

An arrival time for all 12 stations, worked out from your own training.

Start free →

You are pacing

You are at Start/Finish, mile 50, warm and fed, and you know you have 13 miles ahead of you.

The same sheet says when they reach you.

You are deciding

You find out Badger Mountain Challenge is months of work away, not years, and you go and get the qualifier.

Put in a race you have already run. NavRun shows you where this one sits from where you are.

No account needed →

Crew access, pacers and drop bags

The rules that shape your day Anything marked "not checked yet" is a gap in what we hold, never a no from the race.

Crew allowed: Yes badgermountainchallenge.com

Vehicles per runner: not checked yet

Pacers: Yes, from mile 50.00 badgermountainchallenge.com

Muling: not checked yet

Drop bags: Yes badgermountainchallenge.com

Cupless: not checked yet

Course marking: Fully Marked badgermountainchallenge.com

Night running: not checked yet

Dogs: Allowed badgermountainchallenge.com

Headphones: not checked yet

Crew rules: Crew may meet a runner only at the crew-accessible aid stations (Start/Finish, Candy Mountain, McBee Parking). A runner who meets crew anywhere else is disqualified. badgermountainchallenge.com

Pacer rules: One pacer at a time, joining at the Start/Finish aid station at mile 50 or at Candy Mountain. Pacers do not register; they pick up a bib at packet pickup or at the start/finish after the race has started. badgermountainchallenge.com

Drop bag rules: Two drop bag locations: McBee Parking (miles 18 and 31) and the Start/Finish (mile 50 and again at the finish). Bags go to the check-in area on race morning and are transported. Write name, bib number and "McBee Parking / 100K" or "Start-Finish / 100K" on each bag. badgermountainchallenge.com

Cutoff philosophy: The race calls this cut-off very generous: you have as much time on the course as the 100-milers. badgermountainchallenge.com

Aid stations

Every stop, and what you get there ● yes ○ no ? nobody has checked – does not apply to this race

Mile	Station	Cutoff	Crew access	Bag	Pacer	Med	To next
0.00	Start/Finish NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	?	?	?	4.60
4.60	Candy Mountain NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	5.40
10.00	Jacobs Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	5.00
15.00	Orchard NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	3.50
18.50	McBee Parking NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	0.80
19.30	McBee Ridge NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	4.00
23.30	Chandler Butte NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	3.70
27.00	McBee Ridge NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	4.50
31.50	McBee Parking NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	3.50
35.00	Orchard NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	5.00
40.00	Jacobs Road NoneSignal wrong?	?	○	○	?	?	5.40
45.40	Candy Mountain NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	○	?	?	4.60
50.00	Start/Finish NoneSignal wrong?	?	●	●	?	?	12.70
62.70	Start/Finish NoneSignal wrong?	3:30pm	●	●	?	?	?

Same race, other lines

Other distances and other years

Other distances: 100 Miler (100 Mile)
50 Mile Ruck (50 Mile)
50 Mile Run (50 Mile)
55K Run (34.5 miles)
15K Run (8.89 miles)
15K Ruck (15K)

What it looks like out there

Somebody has been out there with a camera the tables say the climb is long. these say what long feels like.

One person has been out there with a camera or a microphone.

Official channel

Badger Mountain Challenge on YouTube

Official channel

These are other people's work and we link straight to them. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. More of them: every race we hold, on film.

Add to this page

What you know every one of these is read by a person before it changes anything

Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know.

Nobody sees it until we have read it. No account, no sign-in.

Which distance? Leave blank if it applies to the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Give it a short title: Optional. Something like “Cal Street, mile 62 to 78”.

What do you wish someone had told you? Write it the way you would say it to someone at the start line.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing. It only tells the next runner where this is coming from.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this note.

Website: Leave this field blank.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit.

This changes nothing on the page on its own. Somebody checks it against the race first.

Which detail? Optional. Filled in for you when you start from a specific line on the page.

What does the page say now? Copy it as it appears, so we can find it.

What should it say? The corrected value.

How do you know? Required. Where it came from: the race email, the runner manual, what you saw on the day.

A link that shows it: Optional.

Or a photo of it: Optional. A screenshot or a photo of the sign works.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, only so we can come back to you about this correction.

Which distance? Leave blank if it is about the whole race.

Which stop? Leave blank if it is not about one particular stop.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Seen a course preview or a film of this one? Send it over.

Somebody watches it before it goes anywhere near this page. What we are after is footage of this course, on the ground. If it would be just as true of any other race, it is not this.

What does it show that the page cannot? Required. A line is plenty. Where the climbs are, what the footing does, what the last twenty miles look like.

Were you there? Optional, and it decides nothing.

What year? Optional.

Your email: Optional, and never shown on the page. Only so we can ask you a question about this one.

Where is it? A YouTube link, a race report, a photo gallery, whatever it is.

What kind of thing is it?

Who made it? Optional, and we credit them on the page.

Website: Leave this field blank.

Have the GPX? Send us the link.

We want the address of the file the race publishes, not the file. We download it from there so the page can say where the line came from.

Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.

We read every one of these and we write back. Every fact here carries the source it came from, and the way a wrong one gets fixed is a person checking it against what you tell us.

Where this came from. Every fact on this page records its source and when we last checked it: 142 sources for this race. Hover a source link to read the sentence it came from.

47% of what we track for a course is filled in. The rest says "not checked yet" rather than guessing.

See something wrong or out of date? Suggest an edit
Ran this race? Tell the next runner what you know
Were you out there? Say which stops a text got out from
Got footage of this course? Send us the link
Are you the race director? Get in touch and we'll make it right.
Anything else: [email protected]

Ultras change. We will tell you when this one does.

Cutoffs move, races get postponed, lotteries open and close. We read the race's own sources and record where every fact came from. Put your email in and we will send you what changed, and where we read it.

No account, and nothing to cancel.

What happens to your email. Nothing else. I do not sell it, and I will not send you anything except this race changing. One click gets you out.

I keep this catalog because the information is scattered and hard to trust. Telling you when it moves is the same job.