This year's inaugural Melmerby Scar Christmas Challenge was judged to be a great success by all participants.

To read the event report, see the results and view pictures please go to our new website:

http://sites.google.com/site/melmerbyscarchallenge/

Saturday 27th December, meeting at 10.00am, The Shepherds Inn, Melmerby

Work off your Christmas waistline by joining us on a bracing yomp to the top of beautiful Melmerby Scar.

Our route is circular - it begins and ends at The Shepherds Inn, covers 7 miles / 11 km, climbs to a height of 709 metres and will take about 3 hours to walk.

Along the way we’ll take in England’s finest views (weather permitting!) and walk along what is probably the best preserved stretch of original Roman Road in Britain!

A trophy will be awarded to the fastest competitor.

The entry fee is £5.00 per adult, which includes a Shepherds Pie lunch at the pub after The Challenge. The rest of the money will go to the Melmerby Village Hall fund.

For entry tickets and further details, please contact Jason Brownlee on 01768 881321 or email jason.brownlee@gmail.com

The Route (see map above + OS reference co-ordinates)

Waypoint 1: Shepherds Inn (NY615375)
Waypoint 2: Gale Hall Farm - turn left off path before farm yard (NY629365)
Waypoint 3: Summit of Catterpalot Hill - 383m (NY639364)
Waypoint 4: Summit of Cuns Fell - 539m (NY647367)
Waypoint 5: Meg's Cairn & Maiden Way Roman Road (NY657374)
Waypoint 6: Summit of Melmerby Fell - Dun Edge 709m (NY653380)
Waypoint 7: Old mine shop & cairn on summit of Knapside Hill - 685m (NY647385)
Waypoint 8: Sheepfold and gate onto public path (NY637384)
Waypoint 9: Gate off Melmerby Common and back onto the lonnin (NY635375)
Waypoint 10: Back onto the tarmac at Gale Hall lonnin and head for the pub! (NY624370)


A view of Melmerby Fell & Scar from the village


A view towards Melmerby Village taken from Cuns Fell, just below Melmerby High Scar


The view from Cuns Fell, looking north across Green Side towards Blea Scar and Gate Castle (below Melmerby High Scar)



Two shots of the Maiden Way near Meg's Cairn (Melmerby Fell) - probably the best preserved stretch of original Roman road in Britain.


A view from above Melmerby Scar of a fog-bound Eden Valley with the Lake District Mountains rising above.


A spectacular winter sunset taken from Melmerby Fell, looking across a fog-bound Eden Valley towards the Lakeland Mountains