Correction: Thanks Hoofers Mountaineering for putting the challenge out there and Mountain Project for managing this great forum.

So we took Doug's idea and ran with it. Check out our first poster below. Registration officially begins July 4th. Send an email to the address on the poster and we'll give you a reminder when registration opens. In the meantime, keep track of your climbs. We've got some nice awards/raffle prizes lined up from our sponsors, and we are continuing to work on getting more.

First poster for DL Centennial Challenge. Submitted By: Carl Sherven on Jun 14, 2011

Due to a massive finger injury, a new wife, and a new house I think I've been out 2 or 3 times in the last year, but still pretty sure I can bag 100 leads before December. Sign me up, I needed some motivation.

James, someone (i.e. maybe you) should make it a goal to climb 100 unnamed routes and add them to MP. This challenge can be whatever you need it to be!

Found my routes.

Use MP Route finder to help you pick em'

Route Finder link

At this point we are finalizing a rules/scoring/coupon booklet that all participants will receive. We've got coupons from Boulders, Adventure Rock, Wildside, Fontana, and we're working on a few more to round it out nicely.

On top of the coupon booklet all participants will receive an event t-shirt, which will be printed near the end of the registration period (July 4 thru Oct 31).

I mentioned the raffle prizes before. So far we've got an Osprey pack, Scarpa shoes, a Marmot jacket, and at least $150 worth of gift cards for the raffle. We will work with sponsors to add to this as the event unfolds.

We've got a nice scoresheet we are working on with dropdown menus and some nice score tallying features for everyone to download. Check out our event webpage for more info, and check back on the 4th to download registration info. All proceeds will go to Friends of Devil's Lake.

I guess I've done about 61 routes so far this year, over about 9 days. At this rate I need another 6 days - gotta be more disciplined about not repeating myself.

My lead list, 28 routes, is in need of serious work. I've heard a of couple of people (Burt, Nick) who are already passed 100 and are just improving their scores now.

Carl's tracking spreadsheet (see hoofermountaineering.org ) works pretty nicely (as long as you are doing named routes, and as long as they appear in the index of Swartling & Mayer). We count other routes, of course, it's just harder to build them into the spreadsheet. If any of you want to give Carl's spreadsheet a tweak, feel free to email me the results.

Registration is open!

Head to the Centennial Challenge webpage to download a registration form and liability waiver, and to find information about sponsors, prizes and rules.

So the 2011 Centennial Challenge was finally wrapped up 10 days ago with an awards ceremony and raffle drawing for the participants. Thanks to donations from participants and a great team of sponsors - Adventure Rock, Scarpa, Osprey, Marmot, Wildside, Fontana Sports, Boulders Climbing Gym, Vertical Endevors, Turners Gym, Moosejaw, Erehwon Mountain Outfitters, Riverwest Outdoors, the Chicago Mountaineering Club, Glass Nickel Pizza and Ale Asylum - we raised $500 for the Friends of Devils Lake.

Seven participants completed the challenge, with two completing in a pair of categories (TR and trad). Fourteen raffle prizes were given away to participants (including goodies like Scarpa shoes, Osprey pack, Marmot precip jacket, gift cards, gym memberships, pizza and beer).

Despite the fact that the challenge got rolling as late as mid-Summer, we are happy to have had a succesful event, with a nice check to hand over to the Friends of DL. And based on this success and the parterships that we've established with sponsors, we'd like to make this an annual event. We hope more of you will sign up for the 2012 Challenge.

Watch this spot for the official announcement ...

Oh yea, I will join this year for sure!

You can also check our Twitter or Facebook pages for updates. We've got last year's results posted along with other goodies.

I think Carl means to say "Check out our:

Facebook

Twitter

and Blog "

Is it going to be 101 routes this year (cause it should be)?

Dylan, yes it is! A couple centuries from now this will be a really hard challenge. But on the other hand, I suppose it's possible that mankind would have evolved into a species of free climbing gods by then ('cause you know nothing improves your odds of mating with opposite sex than sending 5.12s effortlessly).

JJ Czaplewski made an excellent map showing how popular each crag was among last year's participants.

Of last year's 25 participants we had 15 turn in scorecards for 921 toprope, 464 trad, and 40 boulder problems.

Is this for sure happening? If so, how do I sign up and start documenting my routes and the like? Season has been in full swing for a while now...

The rules and scoring system will be essentially the same as what we used last year. For last year's rules, see here: hoofermountaineering.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=c>>>

Also, you can pre-register by sending an email (anytime, starting now) to uwmtnrs@gmail.com - once we're open for registration, we will email you a registration form to fill out and turn in.