The Pennine Skyline explores three landscapes - the Calder, Ribblehead and Howgills - by linking together bridleways and green lanes over the May Spring Bank Holiday.

We have event hubs in three Pennine towns - Mytholmroyd, Settle and Sedbergh - with three routes from each event hub.

From each town we use our local knowledge to put you on classic tracks and hidden ‘off-road’ gems across three landscapes in the north of England that are unrivaled for their natural beauty, historical importance and cultural diversity.

There is the option to ride the Calder Skyline as a one day event on Saturday 2nd May.

Entry to the Pennine skyline
entry to the calder skyline: one day event
 

The Pennines are uncomplicated hills with a north-south range along the backbone of the north of England. What they lack in lofty summits they excel in skylines of steep scars, tumbling screes, limestone ridges, gritstone terraces and semi-wild dark moors of mosses, peat hags and deep pools which, though treeless, hide in their folds vibrant cloughs where gnarled hawthorn, hazel, oak and alder gather together in the company of clear fast flowing streams. Across this weathered landscape there are tracks and lanes which we connect to make adventure trails.

 

event 1:

 

event 2;

 

Event 3:

 
Entry to pennine skyline
event overview
rider agreement
accommodation options
 
 

Pennine Skyline embroidered cloth badge for riders that complete all three skylines.

 
 

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)