Three Peaks of Yorkshire Challenge

Ingleborough (723m)

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From the Hill Inn (GR 743 776) take the road towards Ribblehead for a few yards and then cross the stile on your right. Cross the field to the stile on your right. A well defined path crosses the next couple of fields to come out above Souther Scales. Follow the path to a notch in a scar. Now you start the climb of Ingleborough proper. Head uphill to the stile over the wall you can see in front of you. The pothole just to the left of the path just before the wall is Braithwaite Wife Hole. Continue on the path after crossing the wall. The path soon becomes very steep as you climb towards the ridge between Simons Fell and the summit of Ingleborugh. On reaching the ridge turn right and make the short ascent to the summit cairn.

After having a look round and getting your breath back turn round and retrace your steps towards Simons Fell for about 250 yards to a point where a path drops away from the ridge to your right. This path drops straight down the slope for a few yards to a spring before bending left to go down the slope diagonally to a cairn and then shortly afterwards a ladder stile. From here-on downwards the path is relatively easy to follow. Halfway down the next field you pick up a wall and follow the line of this down past the remains of a shooting hut to another ladder stile. Over this stile you pick up a lane.

After a few yards the lane bends right but the path you want veers to the left past Nick Pot and Sulber Pot to another wall which is crossed by yet another ladder stile. Keep on this path through Sulber Nick, a rock outcrop, to another wall with the inevitable ladder stile but the end is in sight. Two more short fields with stiles and your wall climbing is over. After the last stile it is a short drop down past the railway and onto the tarmac road into the village and a well earned pint in the Crown Hotel; but first don't forget to book back in at the cafe.

Well Done..!!

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