Heptonstall Fell Race details
Date: Sunday 18th March 2012
Time: 10:30 am
Start: Weavers Square, Heptonstall, West Yorkshire
Distance: 24.8 km / 15.4 miles (Long)
Ascent: 966 metres / 3170 feet (category B)
Categories: NS (Navigational Skills Required), LK (Local Knowledge an advantage), PM (Course Partially Marked)
Registration: White Lion, Town Gate, Heptonstall from 9:30 am onwards
Cost: £5 entry on the day
Parking: a field at the top of the village near Draper Corner
Kit requirements: full waterproof body cover, hat, gloves, map, compass, whistle, emergency food
What's the race like?
The Heptonstall Fell Race is a category BL race across the best of the local landscape around Heptonstall in the upper Calder Valley. The 25 kilometres of route takes in a mixture of steep-sided wooded valleys, upland pasture and pathless moorland.
You'll be hurtling down grassy slopes, struggling across stretches of bog, scrambling up through thick heather, dodging through dense woodland and – most of all – racing over some wild open countryside. If you get the chance to look around, you'll see for miles across some of the most beautiful and remote scenery in the South Pennines.
Where's Heptonstall?
Get in touch
If you have any questions about the fell race then send us an email to heptonstallfellrace@gmail.com
Results now in!
Well done to all who took part.
Many thanks
Up and Running provided the race banners and runners' numbers for this year's race and Copper Dragon are provided us with beer. Mmmm.
