W15: Buckden Pike

Leave Station car park at 9.00am. Start Buckden National Park Car Park (Charge £5.50/day). (GR: SD 942 772, What3Words: ///sports.unhelpful.outreach) at 10:00am. 9 miles, 1700 feet of climbing. Hard.

Buckden Pike (702m 2300ft) is the iconic mountain at the top of Wharfedale. We ascend from the south-west using the old miners’ route passing the lead mine entrance and ruined buildings. From the summit, on a clear day, we will get good views of the Yorkshire 3 peaks and other recognisable Dales mountains. We descend assisted by the new National Trust gravelled path bridging the well-known bogs, before descending to the hamlet of Cray. We walk east along the Limestone Pavement under Yockenthwaite Moor to pretty Hubberholme and back along the Wharfe to Buckden.