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UPCOMING EVENT: Fei Sheehy Challenge 2017

11/1/2017

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The Fei Sheehy Challenge will take place on the 18th, 19th, 20th August 2017 and pre-registration is open. If you log on to the website you can pre-register now. Numbers are limited and registration closes when it’s full or a month before the event, whichever comes first. There are also general guidelines, safety details and information on fitness and preparation on the website. Pre-registered participants can elect to do one, two or three days and the money raised is donated to charities and voluntary organisations.


The event took place for the first time in 2014. It’s a three day, self-navigating, hill walking challenge to ‘cross’ the Comeragh, Galty and Knockmealdown mountain ranges on successive days. The cumulative distance and height gain/descent, over the three days, is in the region of 95km and 4,200m. 
 
To date, challenge hill walkers have travelled from all around the Country to participate and we’ve raised about €28,000 in funds.
 
There is also a perpetual cup on offer for any Hill Walking Club that is interested in taking on this challenge. Points are awarded for each day that a walker completes. It’s not about time or speed, it’s about finishing. Clubs will have walkers that can do one day, two days or the three - it’s up to the individual.

You are notified in advance of where the registration is each day and your car is left here. We then transport you to the walk start and you make your way back, across the mountains, to your car and sign-out.

Dates for your diary:
  • 18th, 19th & 20th August 2017

Event links:
  • The official event website
  • The 2016 event report

Associated Gribbon locations:
  • Galtymore Mountain (918m)
  • Knockmealdown (793m)

This article was contributed by Gerard Sheehy
(organiser of the Fei Sheehy Challenge)

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Highpointeer of the Year 2016: the results

6/1/2017

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Despite introducing the 2016 Highpointeer of the Year award category at extremely short notice (just one month before the submission deadline), we received 12 entries from all over Ireland. The three award winners in this category for 2016 are listed below with their achievements in detail.
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Gold Award (1st place)


DILLON LYNCH
(460 points):

 
37 visits to 26 locations
  • 19 locations visited 1 time only
  • 5 locations visited 2 times only
  • 2 locations visited 4 times
 
Certificates of Completion
  • Province Gribbons (Silver Award)
  • County Gribbons (Silver Award)
 
Certificate of Excellence
  • Youngest person known to have completed a full round of the County Gribbons (Gold Award)

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Dillon after visiting Arderin on the Laois-Offaly county boundary (his final Gribbon of 2016)

Silver Award (2nd place)


POLLY MOLLOHAN
(438 points):

 
30 visits to 30 locations
  • 30 locations visited 1 time
 
Certificates of Completion
  • Province Gribbons (Gold Award)
  • County Gribbons (Gold Award)
 
Certificate of Excellence
  • First person known to have completed 3 full rounds of the County Gribbons (Gold Award)

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Polly completing her 3rd round of County Gribbons on Benbaun, County Galway

Bronze Award (3rd place)


MARK O'LEARY
(361 points):

 
31 visits to 31 locations
  • 31 locations visited 1 time
 
Certificates of Completion
  • Province Gribbons (Silver Award)
  • County Gribbons (Silver Award)

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Mark at the summit of Trostan in County Antrim

Congratulations to Dillon, Polly and Mark on your achievements in 2016. We look forward to your continued involvement with High Point Ireland in 2017.

We would like to thank everyone who took part in our first Highpointeer of the Year awards competition. If you would like to take part in the Highpointeer of the Year 2017 awards competition, you can now download the new log sheet / entry form.

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The 2016 review

1/1/2017

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Happy New Year! As we embark upon our 2017 journey around the Sun, now seems like a good time to look back at 2016. It certainly was an eventful year for Highpointeering and the High Point Ireland community. The website and book were one year old on 5th December. We welcomed new Completers to our growing community (including some record-breakers). The website received more than 10,000 visitors. We introduced the first of our annual awards categories. And, the website itself even received an award. Not bad for our first year.
 
Certificates of Completion
 
The following people were awarded Certificates of Completion in 2016 and have been added to the Completers Register. The relevant Gribbon sub-lists and completion years are included here in italics under their names:
 
(G) = Gold; (S) = Silver; (B) = Bronze

Polly Mollohan
Provinces 2012(G), 2013(G) & 2016(G)
Counties 2013(G), 2013(G) & 2016(G)

Mark O’Leary
Provinces 2016(S)
Counties 2016(S)
 
Dillon Lynch
Provinces 2016(S)
Counties 2016(S)

Patrick O’Brien
Provinces 2016(B)
Counties 2016(B)
 
Martin McAlinden
Provinces 2016(B)
Counties 2016(B)
 
Kieron Gribbon
Provinces 2008(S)
Counties 2010(B)

If you have completed the Gribbon list or any of its sub-lists, and have not yet received a Certificate of Completion, feel free to request one from us. Find out more about our Certificates of Completion.
 
Certificates of Excellence
 
On 6th November 2016, Polly Mollohan became the first person we know of to complete three rounds of the County Gribbons. Polly completed her third round at the summit of Benbaun in County Galway, the same place she completed her first round in 2013.
 
On 11th September 2016, Dillon Lynch became the youngest person we know of to complete a full round of the County Gribbons. Dillon was 9 years and 132 days old when he completed his round at the summit of Trostan in County Antrim.
 
A very special congratulations to Polly and Dillon on your achievements, and it was lovely to meet you both in 2016.

Website performance
 
As part of the High Point Ireland mission statement, we are committed to reporting voluntarily, regularly, publicly and honestly about website performance. In our reports, we quote both the number of unique visitors AND the total number of page views to be sure there is no confusion or deception. We could easily cheat by quoting some exaggerated numbers we've just plucked out of thin air in an attempt to impress you, but we're not like that. Instead, our figures are accompanied by analytics graphs which clearly demonstrate variation throughout the relevant period of time. During 2016, the High Point Ireland website received 11,789 unique visitors and 55,145 page views.

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Annual awards
 
In December, we announced that we would be acknowledging the efforts of individual hillwalkers who visited Gribbon locations and completed sub-lists during 2016. This new points-based award category is called “Highpointeer of the Year” (the first of our annual award categories) and gives special recognition to the three highest-scoring Highpointeers. Despite the short notice, we received entry submissions from some truly inspiring individuals before last night's deadline. We will be announcing the Gold, Silver and Bronze Award winners in the next few days.

Highly commended
 
The High Point Ireland website was Highly Commended in the Digital Production category of the 2016 Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence. The Guild's membership includes professional writers, journalists, photographers, illustrators, broadcasters, film-makers, artists, web designers, publishers and editors - all with the common bond of a passionate interest in the outdoors. As a collective, the Guild's members are involved in a wide range of projects all over the world. To have been highly commended in these Awards truly is an honour and a major achievement. In fact, High Point Ireland is the first Irish website ever to receive an award from the Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild. Kieron Gribbon, creator of the High Point Ireland website, has been a member of the Guild since 2010 - click here to view his profile.

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Going forward
 
2016 was a year for building the website, starting to introduce it to the world, and sowing the seeds of our new community.
 
In 2017, High Point Ireland will be taking several leaps forward. You will see a considerable increase in activity from us on social media. Our blog will establish itself as a leading news outlet for our growing community. New awards categories will also be introduced.

Most importantly, we will be doubling our efforts to raise money for the Irish mountain rescue teams represented by Mountain Rescue Ireland: you can help us to help them to help you. There are many ways in which you can support our fundraising campaign, and we will be adding even more ways in the coming weeks. Find out more about our fundraising campaign.

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We wish you all a happy, healthy, peaceful and successful year in 2017.
 
Best wishes,

High Point Ireland.
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