Event: Whitworth Skyline Walk
Sunday 14 May 2017
8.00am and 9.00am
Lobden Golf Club
The Rake
Lobden Moor
Whitworth
OL12 8XJ
DETAILS:
Whitworth’s very own community challenge walk kicks off on Sunday 14 May. The first three Skyline walks attracted over 300 walkers each – can we make it 400 this year?
Come and have a great day out on the hills. If you’ve walked Skyline before you’ll know the drill – after the success of last year we are once again walking in an anti-clockwise direction. This is a challenging walk of approximately 14 miles over varied terrain, starting at Lobden Golf Club between 8am and 9am. The organisers – Whitworth Sports Council – will provide you with written route instructions; and orange juice/water/plasters if required at every checkpoint; and vehicles may be available to remove you from the moor in the case of emergency. There will also be a certificate and a hot meal available to you at the finish at Lobden Golf Club.
The 14 miles will take you, probably, between 5 and 8 hours, so bring a snack or two, and a drink, although there will be juice/water available to you at each checkpoint (roughly every 3 miles), a burger van en route and a meal at the finish back at the Golf Club. Checkpoint 2 is on the main road at Britannia at 5 miles, so if you know the full 14 is going to be beyond you, how about walking just those first 5 miles, which we’re calling the Eastern Skyline, and calling it quits? (If you tell us on your entry form that this is what you’re going to do, we’ll lop a pound off your entry fee. You’ll still get your certificate: and your meal, if you go back to Lobden.)
Collect an entry form from Whitworth Leisure Centre, The Riverside, UBS or Nibbles Cafe. Entry is £3 per person if you complete the form and return it with payment by Wednesday 10 May.
Entry after that, and on the day, is £5. (You still have to complete the form)
Any queries please phone Jo Furtado (01706 853442) or David Chorlton (01706 853234).
Entry fee: Entry is £3.00 per person, on the day £5.00
Contact: Council Office
01706 852018