Yorkshire Three Peaks in Three Days

On this trip, we'll be heading to the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales, home to spectacular hillsides, waterfalls, dry stone walls, Wensleydale cheese, and more!

The walks planned by the trip organiser are described in brief below, and will be reasonably strenuous hill walking, with more ascent and rougher terrain than found in our local area. However, while these will require some degree of fitness, previous hill-walking experience is not assumed, and you’re very welcome on the trip whatever your level of experience and however long you’ve been a member.

There are plenty of options for other walks in the area, however, and other leaders are very welcome to offer alternatives to broaden the range of choices.

Please sign up via the linked form if you’d like to come (especially if you’d like space in the hostel, as these may fill up quickly!) If you have any questions before or after you sign up, please contact the organiser. As with all our trips away, you do need to be a Ramblers member to take part, but members of other groups are welcome to join us.

Provisional schedule

The main walks programme for the trip consists of a walk taking in one of the “Yorkshire Three Peaks” on each of the full days of the trip (Friday, Saturday and Sunday), though please note this is subject to change depending on weather conditions etc. Depending what time people are arriving and heading home, there may be an option for additional short walks on Thursday afternoon or Monday morning.

Thursday 7th: arrival; possible short afternoon walk

Friday 8th: Ingleborough and surrounds. This will be an 8–12 mile circuit from the hostel with 600–750m ascent, depending on exact route to be confirmed.

Saturday 9th: Pen-y-Ghent and surrounds. This will be a 7–10 mile circuit from nearby Horton-in-Ribblesdale, with 500–600m ascent.

Sunday 10th: Whernside. The longest of the “Three Peak” walks, this will be a 13–15 mile circuit from the hostel, with 700–850m ascent.

Monday 11th: check out; possible short morning walk; travel home.

As mentioned above, alternative offerings from other walk leaders are very welcome, or some of these may be able to split into a shorter and longer variant if there's a second leader – please get in touch with the organiser if interested, or indicate this on the form when you sign up.

Other attractions

If you fancy something less strenuous on one of the days, there are a number of other attractions in the area, for example:

• A number of waterfalls that can be seen with only a short walk.
• Show caves such as White Scar Cave and Ingleborough Cave.
• Nearby Hawes is England's hightest market town and home to the Dales Country Museum and Wensleydale Creamery.

Accommodation

We have booked a set of rooms in the YHA-affiliated Ingleton Hostel for the group, with a total of 16 beds. These will be 4-bed rooms shared with other members of our group. The final cost for hostel accommodation for the four nights will be between £133 and £164 per person*, depending how many spaces we fill.

Please sign up as soon as possible to be sure of a space in the hostel, and by 1st June at the latest! A deposit of £55 per person will be required to confirm your space in the hostel once you sign up, with the balance due in the first week of June.

If hostelling isn't your thing, you are also welcome to book your own accommodation – there are a number of options either in Ingleton itself or a short drive away, including B&Bs, holiday homes and campsites. Please do still complete the sign-up form though, so that the organiser knows you’re coming.

For those staying in the hostel, we’ll be organising to cook and eat together as on previous such trips (volunteers will be very welcome for this!) and costs will be shared amongst those taking part (likely to be around £15 each). We’ll also aim to have one evening meal out during the trip as well if we can find a suitable venue, giving an opportunity for those at the hostel and elsewhere to eat and socialise together.

Travel

Journey time by public transport from Reading is about 5–6 hours hours by train to Settle, followed by the 581 bus to Ingleton. By car it's about 250 miles, probably taking a similar time depending on traffic, and we'll try to coordinate car sharing among those who wish to do so.

There are plenty of walking options from Ingleton itself (including Ingleborough and Whernside), or making use of local public transport (including Pen-y-Ghent). However, if we have enough cars to transport people to and fro during the trip, it will certainly expand the options for alternative walks and make Pen-y-Ghent simpler, but it’s by no means essential.

Notes

* T&Cs for hostel booking: Spaces will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis, and you will need to pay before your place is confirmed. Payment details will be sent to you by the trip organiser if a space is available, after you submit the form. Due to the nature of the group, once you have paid and secured your place, if you then decide to cancel, you will only be able to receive a refund for the accommodation once the trip is full and a replacement participant has been found to take your place – and payment has been received from all participants, including the replacement participant. If the trip is cancelled by the hostel, we will only be able to give refunds if we receive the money back from the hostel. The Berkshire Walkers account is used only to streamline payments to suppliers. In the event of a supplier failure Ramblers and Berkshire Walkers are not liable for reimbursement.

Thanks to Caroline for providing photos from the area, taken on a previous visit.