Find a UK crag competition

The task for this competition was pretty simple: enter a crag that wasn't on the UKClimbing database. (If you're feeling strong, you could do that right now - be our guest.)

And we're delighted to say that lots of people did, and hardly anyone got it wrong. In fact, we received a total of 79 submissions, of which only 2 were already there.

We also saw some ferocious competition as two people spotted a glaring gap in our coverage: Northern Ireland. After all, there's not a lot of foot-and-mouth disease there, the climbing is plentiful, the new routing available...

The result: Ryan Glass did pretty much everything there was to do around Fairhead, while David Blair filled in the gaps where he could - though sometimes he submitted crags literally hours after Ryan Glass had got there. In the end, Ryan submitted 34 crags - almost half the total. The next busiest person was Kathryn Bromfield, who submitted 10 crags (more like bouldering fields really) down in the Dartmoor area. But hey, they're all places you can climb, OK?

The purpose of all this, of course, was to get more crags into the listings: while it now covers 1155 crags (as of 25/4/01), we're not pretending by any means that that is really comprehensive. But it's a lot better than a year ago.

Yet at the end of the day the person who won it (chosen by a random number program, with the crags listed in name order - so that it would mix up the senders fairly) was someone who submitted only one crag, and didn't know what the prize was.

John Scott submitted the details for Cummingston - by chance one of the few Scottish crags that was open for Easter. On being told he'd won, he replied, "Excellent, what do I win?"

The answer: £30 worth of vouchers to spend either online at Rock+Run or in one of the Rock+Run shops. Not bad for a few minutes' work, you have to admit.

And what's next, you're wondering? Ah, it will be revealed. Here's a clue: get your scanners ready.


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