One day gravel and mtb event taking riders out into the Upper Calder Valley with three route options

Entry

Event Hub - Mytholmroyd Community Centre from 7am till 10am for tea or coffee and home made cake to get you fueled up. On your return there is hot soup and bread rolls from 2pm - 5pm.  The Community Centre has the bonus of hot showers which riders are welcome to use. The event room is closed 10am-2pm.

GPX file - Field tested gpx files will be sent to your email address a week prior to the event. 

Starting line - There is no mass start and no timing of your ride.

Parking - your vehicle can be parked at Mytholmroyd Community Centre for the duration of the event  from Friday through to the Sunday morning.

Camper vans - bonus that you can park you van at Mytholmroyd Community Centre on Friday night prior to the Calder Skyline.  Make sure you register your vehicle at the MYCC desk to avoid the parking charges.

Railway - Mytholmroyd is on the train line between Leeds and Manchester.

Badge - All riders receive a Calder Skyline embroidered cloth badge as well as bike stickers. 

Tickets: £25 / £35 from March 2026

Pennine Skyline - The Calder Skyline event is part of a long weekend of three events with start lines in Settle to ride the Yorkshire Dales and Sedbergh to ride the Howgills.  The event is called the Pennine Skyline

 
 
 
 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)