SilverBackTrails Summits of The North York Moors Ultra (1)

Back for the second year, Summits of the North York Moors Ultra is a foot race over a circular route of around 120 miles, taking in the 10 highest hills within the North York Moors National Park. The route passes ancient burial sites, medieval boundary stones, ancient crosses and Bronze Age earthworks. You will follow portions of the Cleveland Way, Esk Valley Walk and Lyke Wake Walk long distance paths. Your journey will be one filled with expansive views in all directions, over clearly defined tracks and trods that will keep you trotting as you ascend and descend the hills of the North York Moors, your constant companions from the first to the last mile.

You will become immersed in a landscape that would still be familiar to our ancestors from as far back as the Stone Age, you will run over ancient trods and tracks that have been used…