Cautley
Weather update 09/03: Likely to be 7 degrees in valley, rain and strong easterly wind so up high the wind chill will feel like minus 1-5. You are strongly advised to wear/carry long-sleeved baselayers and supplement your usual mandatory kit
Very limited parking - maybe cycle from Sedbergh (a picturesque 3 miles) or one of the bigger laybys within a km either direction? or car share . Please do not park in or obstruct the Cross Keys Inn car park or farm building entrance. Be very careful walking along road.
Toilets: 2 x portaloos available DO NOT USE THE LOOS IN THE CROSS KEYS INN
Race entries: Everyone must register for the Winter League series in advance, then sign in and pay to race on the day . Please bring cash as the card payment machine may not have enough signal
Routes:
Juniors - Flagged. Out and back mostly on pathless rough grass with occasional rocks. U17s has higher and steeper ground.
Juniors take a more gradual line up the long spur of Yarlside and return the same way with fast, grassy running back down.
Seniors - Flagged. Includes a beck crossing, is steep, often pathless with slippy, uneven, rough ground that is rocky in places. High and steep ground.
The senior race starts with a brisk canter along a trail, across the river, then a stonking big climb up Gt Dummacks. The descent is long and spectacular (when not in thick mist) and the closest thing to flying without apparatus. About 4 miles.
ps: seniors - don't be calmed by the pic - the juniors are going up Yarlside, seniors go up the slope/wall on the left across the valley. And it goes on and on.
Fell Runners Association Race Licence: (available at the race).
This is a fell race under Fell Runners Association rules