Yorkshire Dales Mountain Biking - The South Dales

Description: Guidebook
Code: ISBN 0-9548131-6-2
Manufacturer: V-Publishing
Downloads: 1 Download

Find the best mountain bike routes and rides in the southern half of the Yorkshire Dales with this comprehensive guide (covering literally every legally rideable trail in the Dales!).

The Yorkshire Dales offer a superb network of bridleways, usable all year round, with trails visiting great swathes of moor, rubble-strewn descents, broadleaf woodland, exposed hillsides, stone-based lanes, tarns, rivers...

The Yorkshire Dales National Park is one of the UK's most MTB-friendly national parks. With bike buses, restored bridleways and pubs with workshops out the back, riders of all abilities are guaranteed a good time.

This guide contains 24 routes from 10 to 80km long. They are drawn up by Nick Cotton, author of over 30 MTB guides, plotted on Harvey Maps and illustrated with photography by Andy Heading. A special bonus section introduces the rider to the nearby Gisburn Forest and lists the top 10 climbs, descents and cruises in the area.

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Route List

Kilnsey, Mastiles Lane & Arncliffe Cote
Easy tracks around Austwick
Tough Circuit above Kettlewell
Ingleton, Kingsdale & North End Scar
Clapham, Feizor & Thwaite Scars
Horsehouse & Scar House Reservoir (This route is available as a free download)
Kirkby Lonsdale & Brownthwaite Fell
Settle, Malham Cove & Gorbeck
Kirkby Malham, Malham Tarn & Weets Top
Embsay, Bolton Abbey & Embsay Moor
Gargrave to Mastiles Lane & Hetton
Buckden & Littondale
West of Kirkby Malzeard
West from Masham towards Nidderdale
Grassington, Mastiles Lane & Hetton
Horton, Langstrothdale, Horse Head & Foxup
Pateley Bridge & Appletreewick
Stainforth to Littondale
Tour d'Ingleborough
Pateley Bridge northwest
Ribblehead, Dentdale & Great Knoutberry Hill
Settle to Kilnsey via Malham Tarn
Appletreewick to Scar House Reservoir
The Red Route through Gisburn Forest

Plus Top 10 Climbs, Descents & Cruises.

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Sample Review [view all]

“The guidebook is a great introduction to riding in the Dales but also useful for people who know the Dales pretty well, who may want to explore some new areas or get some ideas for different routes.”

Heather Dawe, Planetfear.com

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Heather Dawe, Planetfear.com

“I'd say the best Mountain Bike Guide I've seen to date. Double thumbs up from planetFear.”

Matt Heason, planetfear.com

Downloadable Files

Yorkshire Dales South - Horseshoe & Scar House Reservoir
This lollipop-shaped ride completes an easy circuit of the spectacularly set Scar House Reservoir. What is a tough climb on the outward leg becomes a blistering downhill on the return.
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