This E-mail is just a bit of extra curricular knowledge of logging
climbs you've done. If you don't want to read it, then feel free not to,
you won't miss any important dates etc. I've been meaning to send it out for a while now, so apologies for its lateness.<br>
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As some of you have been climbing lots outdoors, particularly on the weekend away on gritstone
climbing, by know you'll have started to accumulate a completed climbs
list. Instead of trying to remember everything you climbed, how you
climbed it, who with etc. Why not create an online
logbook of everything?<br>
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A very useful website other than our own is <a href="https://webmail.swan.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=d5d875e345bf49d78a96a59ab4d52760&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ukclimbing.com" target="_blank">www.ukclimbing.com</a>
. This website has loads of information about climbing in the UK, gear
reviews, forums,
competitions, news, videos etc etc. It also has a logbook feature that
members can use to log their climbs as and when they do them. As well as
having a personal benefit of looking back over the years to see what
you did, it can also be useful for someone else
to get a good approximation of how hard you climb and what you're
capable of.<br>
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As an example, heres my logbook: <a href="https://webmail.swan.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=d5d875e345bf49d78a96a59ab4d52760&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ukclimbing.com%2flogbook%2fshowlog.html%3fid%3d101101" target="_blank">http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.html?id=101101</a><br>
Here's training officer, Joe's: <a href="http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.html?id=64913">http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.html?id=64913</a><br>and finally Charlotte el Presidente logbook: <a href="http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.html?id=135408">http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/showlog.html?id=135408</a><br>
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If you're interested in getting your own, its pretty easy to do (and
free of course). Sign up to UKC using the buttons near the top and fill
out your details. Then to start adding climbs to your logbook, there are
a couple of ways to do it, but I'll explain
one to reduce confusion.<br>
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1) On the homepage, go to '<b>Logbook</b>' and then '<b>Find crags map</b>'<br>
2) Find the crag you climbed at. People who have been away on weekend trips, you may need to ask your climbing partner this. Otherwise day trips can be found on the archive of our website's events page.<br>
3) This takes you to the crag page with lots of climbs listed. Default
top to bottom lists climbs left to right. In the table, you will see a
check box, the climb name, the grade, and then the number of people who
have logged that climb in the light grey colour.<br>
4) Tick the boxes of the climbs you have done (again, may need to ask your partner about these!) and click '<b>Add ticked climbs to logbook</b>'<br>
5) Fill out the date you climbed it and how you climbed it. The style of ascents are:<br>
<ul style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><li>Boulder - Used for boulder problems surprisingly. Anything you climb without ropes but a boulder mat below you</li><li>Solo - Climbing with nothing but shoes and a chalk bag! Frowned upon during club trips btw... </li>
<li>Lead - Starting at the bottom, and climbing up placing protection (gear) on the way up</li><li>Alt lead - Alternative leads - Used for multipitch routes</li><li>Second
- The vast majority of new comers will have done this. This is climbing
on a top rope but taking protection/gear out on the way up </li><li>Top rope - Climbing with the rope already at the top and a belayer at the top. Not removing protection/gear</li></ul>
6) Next are the details. These change with every option so I wont list them all, but for those seconding here are the options:<br>
<ul style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><li>Clean onsight - Turned up, tried it, got up it with falling off</li><li>Clean
with beta - Beta is inside knowledge on how to do the climb. Depending
on how you want to use your logbook depends what you really class as
beta IE someone telling me which way the route goes isn't beta, but
telling me what moves to do and where to
place protection IS beta. Most of you probably won't select this one
though </li><li>Repeat ascent - Usually if you've done the climb before
you'll remember some of the moves so you have your own beta. This option
is for if you've done the climb for the second time (clean)</li><li>Worked
- More applicable to sport climbs, working a climb means to practice
it, certain moves, certain sections and then finally going all out and
doing the climb in one. Working a route probably means taking a few
falls during the process too... </li><li>Dogged - With falls/rests, pretty self explanatory really</li><li>Did not finish - If you didn't get up the climb and had to lower off then choose this one</li></ul>
7) Choose your partners. Later on you can link partner names to UK
climbing accounts, but for now you can add climbing partner names
manually by clicking '<b>Add Partner</b>'<br>
8) Click '<b>Add climb(s)</b>'<br>
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Simple as that. You can also vote your own opinion on the climb, or add
notes to the climb such as 'Terrifying climb - change of trousers
required' or 'Fantastic even though it rained' etc. but don't forget
your notes are public and may discourage others from
trying the climb!<br>
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Matt Ev<div>SUMC Committee<br><br>--<br>Web: <a href="http://www.sumc.org.uk">http://www.sumc.org.uk</a><br>Forum: <a href="http://www.sumc.org.uk/cragchat">http://www.sumc.org.uk/cragchat</a><br><br>To unsubscribe from the SUMC mailing list, or edit your mailing list options, please visit <a href="http://www.sumc.org.uk/about/mailing-list">http://www.sumc.org.uk/about/mailing-list</a></div>
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