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Good morning UKC'rs

Think you know your English and Welsh crags and fancy a Xmas "Name the Crag" Quiz? Best viewed in 4K here's a wee aerial vid featuring some English and Welsh crags as viewed from the eye in the sky. Most of the crags are well known so I suspect you may recognise many, but a few would be classed as esoteric just to make it a bit more tricksome! Due to Covid and travel restrictions for the best part of a year there is <hint> a bit of a South West bias... 

If you want to rise to the challenge, there are 17 individual clips relating to 17 crags so see how many you can identify from this unique perspective. I'll put out a list of the answers in a few days and the first to get closest or all 17 wins a virtual pat on the back from me! 

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Merry Xmas and good luck!

Very nice.  Inspiring and I look forward to the answers (which is code for not getting very many!)

Stunning images! 

I've got most but as you said there's a few that are esoteric.

Great work, thanks for sharing.

awesome images. Thanks for sharing this. Inspiring stuff.

Great footage! I have a few gaps, but here goes:

1 Commando Ridge

2 ?

3 ?

4Devil's Slide

5 Sharpnose

6 Flying Buttress, Lundy

7 Scrattling Crack area, Baggy

8 Oddwall's point

9 Valley of the Rocks

10 ?

11 Wintours Leap

12 Three Cliffs Bay

13 Wen Zawn

14 Roaches

15 ?

16 Lawrencefield

17 Stanage

We really loved this, thanks for posting. 

Good effort...thanks...it shows me how little I know and how living in the Peak can make one lazy and not go anywhere else!!

I only got about 3 of them!

2 Sandymouth?

3 Rumps Point

If you are still working on it 8 isnt oddwalls!

Thanks a million for taking the time to post all your positive vibes as it is muchly appreciated! I'll reveal all the answers next week... Cheers Dave

A fine effort Nigel and you have 11 out of 17! All will be revealed next week...  Cheers Dave

OK, thanks. I wondered if the climbers were on Matchless, but frustratingly the video only showed the top of the climb.

Ha ha oh dear! When the UK gets back to some sense of normality you ought to venture South of the border a bit more... Cheers Dave

Yes, I think 2 is the Flame at Sandymouth.  

3. Is familiar but still struggling to place it...

8. Pressure Drop at Speke's Mill

15. Bamford?

Great idea for a quiz!  

The view of Sharpnose is stunning.  When you are there you are aware that those fins are pretty thin but from this angle they just look impossible.

You are making me nostalgic for the SW.  It's been far too long since I climbed in North Devon - my favourite crags and such great times...  

You may have a point! Though most of  these seem to be south of Bristol

2 isn't Sandymouth and 8 isn't Speke's. I'm struggling with 15.

8 looks like Dyer's Lookout ?

Back to the drawing board.  I was pretty confident about Pressure Drop, cropped as the view is!

No!

Just looked again, I meant 5 for Dyers Lookout, that one fin looks much too high for Sharpnose ?!...

It is Sharpnose, the satellite dishes give it away, plus you can see the line of Lunakhod....

Great video.

Like Nigel Coe but

I think 2 is called the Horn

8 - Screda Point

9 = looks interesting l but haven't a clue

10 = The Arete on Morning Slab, Avon

15 - looks like Bamford to me

10. Brean Fort

15 - agree with Bamford, just an unusual viewpoint that makes it tricky - the road gives it away (if you've driven along it enough times 😁)

The SW ones (of which I could recognise very few) showed me how parochial I am.

To Bald Eagle: - another nice little movie - thanks.

It was the weird crozzley rock of gargoyle flake that gave it away for me.

agreed...  I like the way David’s angle makes GF slip into the rest the crag, as opposed to the classic angle with the arete and Ladybower

Many thanks for all the kind feedback and I'm delighted you have enjoyed the quiz and my wee video. Between you all you are getting very close to a full house! 

If anyone wants to try for an additional 3 extra "Anorak" bonus points, see if you can name the 3 routes with the climbers on Clip's 6, 8 and 11... Cheers Dave 

good excuse to watch it again

8 is tourist trap & we know 11.

but 6, the shame, I have never been to Lundy... 2021 goals

Yeah I got that one. I lived at Weston when in the 6th form.

I'd say numer 6- its horsemans route as the belay is on the easy ground to the side - so climber must be doing the traverse. However diamond solitaire (the corner crack if I've got confused with double diamond) can go through that point dependant on the variation you choose.

Think the climber is on double diamond.

Edit: there is also a team on i think Flying buttress.

Well done chaps and collectvely you have identified all 3 routes so have a socially distanced virtual pat on the back from me! And JerDon I hope we can all get to Lundy in 2021 as it is a truly magical place to visit! The climbings none to shabby either... Cheers Dave

For anyone interested the 17 crags with the 3 routes in bold are as follows:

1: Bosigran Ridge

2: Horn of Plenty at Maer Cliff aka Northcott Mouth

3: Rumps Point at Pentire Head

4: The Devils Slide at Lundy

5: Lower Sharpnose

6: Flying Buttress at Lundy - Diamond Solitaire

7: Scrattling Zawn at Baggy Point

8: Screda Point - Tourist Trap

9: Valley of Rocks

10: Fort End Crags at Brean Down

11: Main Area at Avon Gorge - The Arête

12: Three Cliffs Bay

13: Wen Zawn at Gogarth

14: The Roaches

15: Bamford Edge

16: Lawrencefield

17: Stanage Edge 

So to anyone who took part give yourself a virtual pat on the back and a very Merry Xmas!

Cheers

Dave

Thanks, new year quiz? 😁

Keep up the high quality productions.