Back by popular demand…
Same rules and format as last year, but for new entrants the nuts and bolts of the competition are explained below
A little informal competition for the Christmas and New Year period
- Visit as many trigs as possible starting from Saturday December 17 and finishing on Sunday January 8.
- Score points based on their height and remoteness (see scoring system below).
- Submit your trigs to me (tom.brunt1@btinternet.com) and I’ll sort out the points. Let me know the date of your visit, and for really obscure or un-named trigs please include a grid reference. I’ll update a leader board every few days.
- Trigs can be visited by any human-powered means.
- Last year Dark Peakers visited a remarkable variety of trig points from the tip of Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and pretty much everywhere in between. Trig scores ranged from minus 1 (yes, really) through to 14710 (Ben Alder since you ask). However, I have been reliably informed by last year’s winner that a higher scoring trig is out there…
Scoring system:
- The score for each trig is the product of its height (in metres) and the minimum distance to a tarmacked public road (in km). So, for example:
|
Height / m |
Road distance / km |
Score |
|
|
Blackden |
590 |
1.69 |
999 |
|
Stanage High Neb |
458 |
1.00 |
458 |
|
Outer Edge |
419 |
0.35 |
147 |
- Best (i.e. highest scoring) twelve trigs count.
- A trig can only count once towards your total score.
- Bonus points might be awarded at certain stages of the competition – keep an eye open for these…