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In the spirit of daftness/adventure on which this club is founded, I would like to prpose a series of daft challenges. (There’s been a bit of this recently)
The idea being that there’d be a list of arbitrary challenges that people could have a go at and we could have some kind of official record of who’s done what and when… fell free to add your own suggestions
Ideas (in vague order of difficulty):
THE MOURNES
The Donard Adventures
- a series of strange ascents of Donard, those done so far include “in a suit on the hottest day of the summer” and “Barefoot while confusing an American Man”
- a list of fastest time for carpark to carpark.
The Annalong Valley Challenge
- Climb a route on Douglas Crag, Binnian, Blue Lough Buttress, Buzzard’s Roost, Percy Bysshe, Lamagan Slabs, Lower Cove, Upper Cove, Slieve Beg, Commedagh Castles, Annalong Buttress and Hare’s Castle in a single day
The Mourne Wall
- Complete a circuit of the Mourne Wall in a day (you’re allowed to skip the nasty river crossing between Long Seefin and Carrick Little)
Classic Mournes Chimneys
- Climb all the classic Mournes chimneys in a day
- Not sure what they all are but definitely include The Sheugh (Buzzard’s Roost), Raven Route (Eagle Rocks), 3rd Corner (Lower Cove), Summit Sheugh (Bearnagh), Crooked Chimney, Spellack Chimney, plus i’m sure one or two more
The Mourne 500s
http://mourne500.blogspot.co.uk/
The Dennis Rankin Round
FAIR HEAD
The Prow E1s
- Climb all the prow E1s in a day.
The Fair Head E2s
- No-one has done this yet. Climb all the 3-star Fair Head E2s in a day. Hard.
All excellent Alpine/expedition training
any further suggestions?
I would gladly come up with weight related challenges for anyone who wants to get stronger-er
Weight related challenges… as in carry x kg up x mountain?
Squat body weight for 20 reps without putting the bar down
50 chin ups with x% of body weight added
That kind of thing. Increase your load bearing capacity!Whilst excellent training, no doubt, those aren’t mountaineeringy challenges, boyo
Well in that case, 50% of body weight in rucksack, walk up a big hill for reps
McCloy carried a breezeblock up Errigal, so there’s that one covered.
But still don’t think you’re getting the idea of this…
I would never play ignorant for the fun of it, that’s for sure…
All of these things are outside, can we not have some in the PEC?
Of course. Climb all the features routes in 24hrs for example… Cadden was working on that.
Crooked Chimney? Gotta fall out of something…
Sadly, as panel 4 has now been climbed its a bit harder than it was when I first tried it.
I propose “The Donard Adventures” a series of strange ascents of Donard, those done so far include “in a suit on the hottest day of the summer” and “Barefoot while confusing an American Man”, and of course a list of fastest time for carpark to carpark.
Yes. Excellent. I sense an AGM award for most novel ascent of Donard.
Conor, care to ascend Donard on my shoulders?
yes
Are the fairhead ones team effort? or individual?
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