The rules favour those looking to cover a distance collecting crags, pinnacles, trig points and monoliths in addition to climbs. On the day heavy showers and high wind made teams concentrating on crags a routes uncompetitive. The best strategy by far was to have a plan and to know where to find monoliths (stoops and guidestones) and stone circles which are handily put on a map on the Derbyshire historical environment record web site and on the Derbyshire heritage web sites.  I’m intending to choose a different start point next year so the planners will be forced to work up a new route.

Results

Roger and Tom Larkam – 826 plus and hardest boulder

Chris and Gill Radcliffe – 520 cycling

Nigel and Peter Briggs – 471 highest point 395m and hardest pitch

Ruth Gordon and Richard Hopkinson – 460 walking

Simon Pape & Dave Snod Helliwell – 399

Michael Moss, Kevin Raisin-Moss and Catherine Hocking – 261

I’ve given points for both the hardest technical pitch and boulder as pitched climbing and bouldering are somewhat different games. 50 points so worth competing for. Each café or pub counts too, one team found a loophole in the rules and gained 20 points for just using a café toilet, so a refinement to the rules next year I think.

Congratulations Roger and Tom.