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In Chur, Switzerland, they are holding the 26th International Alpine Beard Competition!

How cool is that? They have similar competitions all over the world, I have to find out if there's one here that's hilarious! Beards are fun to look at, especially if there are beard freestyling categories!

Imagine being in a room full of beard enthusiasts with crazy facial hair? I sound like a weird beard fetishist now, I'm not! But they're funny and a lot of the bands I listen to are full of awesome bearded rockers who are super enthusiastic about beards!

Apparently in this Alpine competition there were 60 entrants from Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria competing, I'm sure we could get more than that over here! There are plenty of bearded, moustachioed facial hair celebrators over in the UK!

I'm doing my research now, and apparently the biggest competition is the World Beard and Moustache Championship, lauded by its organisers as 'the premier event in the international sport of bearding'. Might have to grab some friends and plan a holiday around wherever that is next year, a few beers and a lot of beards - sounds like a good time to me!

Photo: zieak / ruspace (Flickr)