Quality little ride, this. It's got the views and things to see, technical sections, quick descents and fun single track. Plus Clapham's a nice village to have a pint or two after if you fancy.

There's a National Park car park with public toilets in Clapham on the east side of the river (SD745692), where we'll start from.

1. Turn right out of the car park and follow the road round and over the river then turn right again. There's a waterfall on the right here. Go past the sign for the footpath to Ingleborough Cave and take the next right, signed bridleway Ingleborough Cave. Follow this surfaced, becoming rough track to a farm (SD751708). Go through the farm yard and turn right onto a short, technical rocky track which takes you down to the river.


2. Ingleborough Cave is well worth a look while you're here (see their website), turn left onto the track in the valley bottom and head up. Once you're done, double back to a foot bridge over the river. Crossing this, there's a bit of a push up the steep valley side and a lug over a stile (this is only a foot path after all) onto Long Lane (SD754706). If you want to avoid this and don't mind missing the fun technical descent and the cave you can turn right at the church in Clapham, then left through the tunnels and follow Long Lane all the way.


3. Long Lane's a good but occasionally rough track, which climbs, steeply in places, up onto the moors. There're good views of the end of Trow Gill canyon to the left. Through a gate, head right on a grassy track then bear right just after a rutted section to reach the cairn (SD765718) (you can carry straight on but you miss out on the summit then). Great views all round, dominated by Ingleborough. Now comes a great, really fast descent on well drained grassy track - bear right at a marker stone.


4. Arriving at a farm (SD771714), carry on to join a made track that continues to descend then take a left turn (SD771706). There's a slab of rock become part of the bridleway here, which is quite cool, followed by a deep ford with a clapper bridge alternative (which is probably sensible). The bridleway then becomes single track, tight between walls, fast and rocky - great stuff. Before you know it, you're in Wharfe.


5. Turn right and follow the track round, taking a right fork, until it becomes more walled single track and leads you to a road. Turn right here, then right again after a short distance onto a bridle way signed for Clapham (SD774691). Climb, going straight across at a cross roads, before beginning the descent back into Clapham. Long Lane, where we were earlier, heads right while straight on it gets rough and plunges into 2 tunnels! No idea what they're for, but they're cool! Back in Clapham, turn left and you're home.

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