One day gravel and mtb event taking riders out into the Yorkshire Dales with four routes on tracks and green lanes between Settle, Hawes, Ribblehead and Ingleton. All four routes pass under the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct.

The Ribblehead 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 Sedbergh to ride the Howgills Skyline on Monday 4th May.  The event is called the Pennine Skyline

entry to the ribblehead skyline
entry to the pennine skyline: 2nd - 4th May
practical event details
rider agreement
 

Route Options; Maps overlaid to show the similarities / differences

 

Gravel route: 60km and 1,000 metres // 37 miles and 3,200 ft

 

mtb route: 74km and 1,400m // 46 miles and 4,600 ft

 

MTB route: 103km and 2,300m // 64 miles and 7,400 ft

 

gravel route: 110km and 2,200m // 75 miles and 7,200 ft

 

epic route: 128km and 2,600m // 80 miles and 8,500 ft

 

Pennine Skyline - The Ribblehead Skyline event is part of a long weekend of three events with start lines in Mytholmroyd to ride the South Pennines on 2nd May, Settle to ride Yorkshire Dales on 3rd May and Sedbergh to ride the Howgills on 4th May.  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)