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Using Peakhunter

Peakhunter is High Point Ireland's official logging and score-keeping partner. Individuals must download the Peakhunter app and create a personal profile before they can take part in any of the following Sport Hillwalking competitions:

  • All-Ireland Hillwalking Championships
  • Irish Challenge Hillwalker of the Year
  • Irish Mountaineer of the Year
  • Irish Highpointeer of the Year
  • Community Hillwalking Competitions

Individuals wishing to earn High Point Ireland Certificates of Completion (for any of our various hillwalking challenges) or Certificates of Excellence must also use the Peakhunter app to log their summit and / or High Point visits..

How to log summit and High Point visits using Peakhunter
  1. Install the Peakhunter app on your smartphone and create a profile (you only need to do this once).
  2. Sign into your Peakhunter account on the smartphone app (if not already signed in).
  3. In the app's settings, download all the Ireland and United Kingdom locations. We recommend that you do this every few months to ensure that you have the most up-to-date set of locations.
  4. Submit a Sport Hillwalking Entry Form if you wish to compete in the Irish Sport Hillwalking competitions. All of our competitions (apart from the Irish Challenge Hillwalker of the Year) also has a Peakhunter component which needs to be signed up to. We strongly advise that you sign up to the relevant Peakhunter components at your earliest possible opportunity as this will allow you to immediately identify any problems that may come up at the time of logging a location. If you are signed up to the Peakhunter component before logging a location, a "C" symbol will appear beside that entry in your logbook after you submit that new log to Peakhunter. This "C" indicates that you have logged the correct location marker.
  5. Visit Sport Hillwalking locations in the real world. Don't forget to bring your smartphone to log your visits.
  6. While you are physically present at a summit or High Point location, the Peakhunter app will allow you to log it as a successful visit. The app will help you to pinpoint the virtual marker, but it will permit you to log it if you are close enough to it. Please note that the virtual marker in the app may not precisely match the location on the ground. Log it safely wherever you can. It is best to avoid creating new markers at summits or High Points if a marker already existing there. When you are within logging range, the app asks you to create a log. All you have to do is press the button in the phone app.
  7. If the app does not permit you to log a visit, you may have to wait for a couple of minutes for the GPS signal to improve. If it still doesn't allow you to log it, you may have to move a few metres away from the actual real-world location to enter the logging zone.
  8. If you have to move away from a location to log it on the app, that location's saved coordinates may be slightly out on Peakhunter. In this case, log it wherever the app allows you to. 
  9. Please be aware that there may be multiple markers at some locations. At such locations, only one of those markers counts towards challenges and / or carries competition points. It is the participant's own responsibility to ensure that they log the correct one before they leave the location. This can be checked on site by viewing the newly-created log in the app's Log Book. If the correct marker has been logged, an orange "C" will appear in the log entry. We cannot manually adjust scores if a wrong marker is logged or or if a marker has been missed entirely.
  10. Each log will initially be stored offline on your phone until you have adequate mobile coverage to upload to the Peakhunter platform, at which point you will be required to perform a sync. This is done in the Log Book section of the app. Please be aware of any sync deadlines in our competitions. These are listed in our Schedule. We strongly recommend submitting logs to Peakhunter immediately while still at the location. This allows you to check that you have logged the correct virtual marker.
  11. Take some photos at each location when you log it. To count a logged visit towards any of our initiatives, you must add at least one photo to each log entry on Peakhunter. Feel free to include a selfie or two. Not only are these a great way to remind your future self of past achievements, they may also be called upon as a secondary means of verification for visits. As a backup, each visit to a location should be verifiable from a photograph or video (i.e. a photograph or video which clearly shows you at each relevant High Point location). It is unlikely that photographic or video evidence will be requested as proof of visits to Sport Hillwalking locations, but it is recommended to have this backup in place. If photographic / video evidence is requested, it should be viewable on one of the following websites: Twitter; Facebook; Instagram; YouTube; or your own website / blog. Peakhunter logs will be the only acceptable means of verification unless photographic / video evidence is specifically requested by us. In the very unlikely event that such a request were to be made, it will be stated on this page, High Point Ireland's social media channels and the High Point Ireland blog.
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If you are planning to visit any of the locations on the Irish High Point lists, please be aware that Highpointeering, rambling, hill-walking, hiking and mountaineering are risk activities. High Point Ireland and Donard Media (the website's publisher) accept no responsibility for any injury, loss or inconvenience sustained by anyone using this website. Personal safety is entirely the participant's own responsibility.
The inclusion of locations on the official list of Ireland's major geographical High Points is based entirely on each location's ability to meet the necessary criteria for at least one of the eight primary sub-lists contained on this website. It should not be assumed that access is permitted to any of the High Point locations on the list. High Point Ireland and Donard Media recommend that anyone planning to visit any of the High Point locations on the list should check for potential access restrictions and to request permission from the relevant landowner(s) in advance.

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