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East Yorkshire Long Distance Walkers Assoc.
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CHALLENGE AND SOCIAL WALKS
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Long distance walks (usually at least 12 miles and mostly 20 miles or more) are divided into social and challenge walks.
Each are organised by the LDWA’s regional groups and advertised in the Association’s journal Strider. Social walks just give a venue (map and grid reference), time, distance and a leader’s name and anyone wishing to take part simply turns up and joins in. Challenge Walks cover a set course (invariably 20+ miles) and walkers are issued with a tally card at the start to be clipped at a series of checkpoints around the course.
The East Yorkshire group has an acknowledged expertise in walking the Wolds and North Yorkshire Moors. The Group runs three Challenge Walks and is closely involved with three more each year.
The Rudston Rock (a 19 and 25-mile circuit of the Wolds from Bridlington) was successfully held for the first time in January 2007 to provide a "first of the year" challenge in the time slot previously occupied by the well-known Scarborough Rock. A companion event, The Filey Flyer, was successfully held for the first time in January 2008.
Rudolph’s Romp (24 miles over the Wolds) is held in early December. The Woldsman, a 50-mile circuit, was staged from a new venue at the Driffield Showground in April 2008; and the old favourite, the 23-mile Scarborough Rock, returns in January 2009.
The Group also advises on the Peatlands Way, a 50-mile circuit organised by the Humberhead Levels Green Tourism Forum covering the Thorne, Crowle and Hatfield moorlands managed by English Nature. The challenge walk route varies from year to year as new areas of the moors are opened up but details of the anytime route are available from Thorne Moorends Town Council; Capability's Overview is a largely off-footpath 24-mile circuit of the Sledmere and Birdsall Estates and adjoining Wolds farmlands over land which is not accessible at any other time; and the Tranquility Trail covers Wolds circuits of approx 26 and 16 miles (incorporating new Open Access areas) from the Madhyamaka Buddhist Centre at Kilnwick Percy. This walk also has some permissive access stretches not open at any other time.
Have a look at the programme and please leave a note on the guestbook.
November, 2008
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