As we begin the new decade, it can be interesting to see how things changed throughout the last decade. Andy Ovens and Paul Phillips have designed multiple interactive charts to make sense of what happened on UKC between January 2010 and December 2019. From 2.5 million messages in our forums, over 5 million logged ascents, and more than 100,000 photos uploaded, thank you for contributing, and helping to make these graphs look amazing!

Where have you been climbing over the years?

You can pause the animation, or click on specific years, all while zooming/panning the map as you desire

Note: logs are grouped into regions for this map.

Which months were busiest for a particular discipline?

And over the years it looks like there has been a rise in sport and bouldering:

And limited to just the UK:

Which were the most popular routes?

Which rock types were most popular?

And split by discipline:

Which were the most popular crags?

Here are the top 150 logged crags. Stanage 'Popular' shows it's worthy of its name

Who were the busiest climbers?

Number of ascents is shown in grey

1. Robin Nichols 9787
2. petegunn 9586
3. dannyboy83 9176
4. remus 6591
5. freemanTom 6457
6. Bolehillbilly 5899
7. Michael Porter 5609
8. Flavio 5367
9. Davinamo 5366
10. Chris Craggs 5360
11. Graeme Hammond 5257
12. John Hunt 5219
13. phleppy 5043
14. cem 4986
15. tobydunford 4836
16. John H Bull (tcfka Bullybones) 4805
17. Climbster 4740
18. Christheclimber 4721
19. Tom Heslam 4558
20. Paul Clarke 4468
21. Sam Simpson 4436
22. Marti999 4382
23. bpmclimb 4367
24. Bloke on a Rope 4362
25. JamieSparkes 4346
26. RANGITOTO 4327
27. tp45597 4299
28. John Brayshaw 4246
29. simon pape 4196
30. Andy Moles 4193

Split up by climbing type:

Forums

Which were the most popular forums?

Forums that are automatically deleted after a set time (i.e. The Pub) aren't included

Average number of messages per post in each forum

Forums that are automatically deleted after a set time (i.e. The Pub) aren't included

Most upvoted messages

1. DaveHK's message about logging winter routes - 249 upvotes
2. Rob Greenwood's reply about headpointing - 219 upvotes
3. Goucho's thread about soloing - 217 upvotes
4. Anna Taylor's response about her use of bouldering pads - 209 upvotes
5. Misha's question about abseiling on other people's ropes - 202 upvotes

And the most disliked post of the decade, using the feature in a slightly unique way... Toad's post asking about BMC's attempted rebrand - 491 downvotes

Photo Galleries

Photo Votes vs Star Rating

Photos uploaded by Category

Articles

Length of articles over the decade

Note: this is done using the character count. This includes HTML, but this should scale uniformly with content length.