Leave the school GR 993639 and turn left along Wharfeside Avenue. Turn left after 300 at GR 992642 yards in front of houses into Bridleway and continue ahead to reach road at GR 988638. Cross road with care, turn right for 20 yards and turn left into Skirethornes Lane. Ahead on road for 0.65 mile to reach road junction at GR 978638. Ahead on track for 0.35 mile to stile on left signed Threshfield Moor, Bordley & Malham. Over stile and follow path uphill in a Westerly direction with wall on right to reach stile. Over stile and continue ahead across field uphill to gap in wall GR 969635. Continue ahead uphill across another field, crossing a broken wall to a stile at GR 966633. Over stile and follow path with wall on right (open moor) to track GR 961635. Cross track and follow path now with fence on right (blue top) to track junction at GR 957631, Checkpoint 1 — Threshfield Moor (2.61 miles).
Turn left on track, in a southerly direction, with wall on right to gate on right at GR 958630. Through gate signed Boss Moor Lane. Follow track across open moor, still in a southerly direction, for 0.70 mile to reach the road at GR 955619. Turn left on road to gate on right (just before cattle grid) at GR 955617. Through gate signed BW Hetton & Skeld Gate. Follow walled lane to a gate at GR 954613. Through gate and follow path across open field, in a southwesterly direction, to gate at track junction at GR 950607, Checkpoint 2 — Winterburn Reservoir (4.24 miles).
Through gate signed BW Hetton and follow walled lane to road at Hetton. Turn left on road for 200 yards to road junction. Turn right and follow road to Rylstone GR 969586. Turn left, cross main road and take next right towards GR 971587, Checkpoint 3 — Rylstone Church (6.34 miles).
From the CP continue up the road through the gate and turn right to join a track heading southwards. Follow this track, which turns west (right) across field to gate at GR 972581. Through gate into lane and turn left on the track for 350 yards to gate on the left. Then through gate and up the hill, passing a copse on the right, to reach a gate. Through the gate (Look back at this point to see Pen-y-Ghent in the distance) and follow the bridle way across the moor (blue marker posts) to a track at GR. 997571. Continue eastwards on this track to the track junction at GR 007571 Turn left down this track towards GR 016580, Checkpoint 4 — Upper Barden Reservoir (10.49 miles).
Continue on the track and cross the head of the reservoir turning right at the end, beyond the reservoir lodge, to follow the track downhill for 2 miles passing Lower Barden Reservoir on your right to the road. Cross the road to the checkpoint at GR 050567, Checkpoint 5 — Barden Scale (12.98 miles).
Turn right down the road to the main road. Turn left towards Burnsall and follow the road to the road junction at GR 050572. Bear right down this road and cross Barden Bridge. Continue on the road for 300 yards to the stile at GR 053576. Over the stile and follow the riverside path (Dales Way) to the road at Howgill GR 059593. Cross the road and follow the track junction at GR 063592. Turn left on Howgill Lane for ½ mile to Checkpoint 6 — Eastwood House (15.87 miles). (Note route and checkpoint change here).
Continue on Howgill Lane to a gate on the left at GR 072603. Through the gate and cross a stile to the left of the barn building. Then Cross the fields via a footbridge to High Skyreholme through the buildings and onto the road. Turn left on the road, down hill, to a road junction at GR 068606. Turn right towards Parcevall Hall. After 400 yards turn left through a gate, just before the main gate to Parcevall Hall. Follow the path with the stream on the right up past the remains of an old dam crossing two stiles to reach a finger post at GR. 068617. From the finger post bear left and take the path up through the old quarry to reach the track. Follow the track to the road at GR 063622, Checkpoint 7 — New Road (18.04 miles).
Turn left along the road which bears left towards Appletreewick for 500 yards to turn right through the gate on the track at GR. 063620 signed Hartlington. Follow the track through two gates and eventually join the walled lane at GR. 052611. Follow this lane downhill for 1 mile through two gates to cross the road at GR. 041607, then ahead on the track to GR 039606, Checkpoint 8 — Woodhouse Farm (20.11 miles).
Turn nght before reaching farm and follow the path m a North-westerly Direction (Dales Way with River Wharfe on left) over the footbridge reaching Burnsall after I mile. Turn left on the road, cross the road bridge and rejoin the riverside path at the end of the bridge on the right. Continue to follow the path now with river on right (Dales Way) for 3 miles towards Grassington crossing the suspension bridge, river now on left, near Hebden eventually reaching the bridge at Linton Falls. Do not cross but continue ahead on Dales way with River Wharfe still on left to reach road at GR 998638. Turn left on road to Upper Wharfedale School (24.8 miles) and the finish.