Sponsored Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge

Lupine Adventure have got togethre with Youth Cancer Trust Holidays to run a series of Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenges.  The challenge is to walk a circular route, taking in each of the Yorkshire 3 Peaks, within 12 hours. The peaks in order of assent are Pen-y-ghent (694m), Whernside (736m) and Ingleborough (723m). The total distance walked will be approximately 38 km with 1600 m height gained.

Are you up to it?

Prior to the event

Get yourself in a team of between 4 and 8 people.

Appoint a team contact.

The team contact then fills in a booking form, collects £25 from each person in your team and sends it off to us.

Get some sponsorship.

It would help if you can download and fill in consent forms to bring on the day (please let us know in advance if you have any medical complaints that we should know about).

You are advised to arrive on the Friday evening before the challenge as we will be registering people to set off between 7am and 8am, please take a look at our accommodation guide for ideas of where to stay.

On the Day

We will be camping at Holme Farm campsite on the main road through the village and will start registrations from 7am. You can find us the night before if you like, it isn't a huge site so it shouldn't be difficult (look for the Lupine Logo).  We will be running a first come first served system on the day, we will need you to sign consent forms, give you an equipment check and then you are off. We will provide you with a map with your route on it and a number of check points that you must pass through so that we can be sure that you are safe. At the end of the day you will return to our base camp to be checked in.

Safety

As mentioned above you will be required to navigate around the course using a 1:25 000 OS map (provided). We will place Mountain Leaders and other assistants around the course to mark your progress . You will not be accompanied on this event. If you do not think you have the navigational skills within your team to do this safely then you should not register until you do. Handily, we do run navigation courses :-) so please get in touch if you would like some training. If you wish to download the route you will be taking onto your GPS it can be found here in Memory map format and GPX format (if you would like other formats then let us know and we'll try and convert it.

The following kit will be required by each person on the challenge

1. Full set of waterproofs
2. Hat & gloves
3. Spare warm clothes
4. Lots of food (and I mean lots)
5. Water container
6. Whistle
7. Walking boots
8. Any personal medication
9. Torch and spare batteries.

Each team must also carry between them at least one

1. First aid kit
2. Flask containing a hot drink
3. Mobile phone

Under 18's.

This event is open to people between the ages of 16 and 18 on the condition that a legal parent or guardian a member of the same team.