One day gravel and mtb event taking riders out into the Howgill Fells, Mallerstang and Great Asby Scar with routes selected for gravel bikes and mtbs on tracks and green lanes each with a starting point at the friendly and stylish Half n Half bar in Sedbergh.

The Howgills Skyline event is part of a long weekend of three events with start lines in Mytholmroyd to ride the Calder Skyline on Saturday 2nd May and Settle to ride the Ribblehead Skyline.  The event is called the Pennine Skyline and entry is currently open.

entry to the howgills skyline
entry to the pennine skyline: 2nd - 4th may
practical event info

MTB routes x2

Gravel routes x3

 
 
 
 

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)