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AFTER more than a decade of controversy, walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders will have a new, designated route to explore through the Yorkshire Dales from today (18 August, 2005) as the latest phase of the Pennine Bridleway National Trail is opened.

The trail will eventually cover about 350 miles from Derbyshire almost to the Scottish border, a riders' equivalent of the Pennine Way, and parts of it have already been completed in Derbyshire and Lancashire.

The Dales section, however, was held up by planning squabbles which started over ten years ago when a small number of residents in Upper Ribblesdale complained that an invasion of horses and their riders would spoil their peace and quiet.

Today will see the opening of the first ten miles of the Dales section of the trail, the so-called Settle Loop, which runs from Settle eastwards towards Malham. Eventually, the Dales section will cover 52 miles from Long Preston to Hell Gill Bridge on the Yorkshire/Cumbria border.

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) Chairman Carl Lis said: "This is a fantastic achievement. Today is the culmination of months of extremely hard work by the Countryside Agency and the national park authority.

"It is a major project that will eventually see the Pennine Bridleway stretching from north to south through the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Loop will provide a boost to the local economy and another chance for people to explore the beautiful Dales."

THE CONTROVERSIAL "right to roam" Act comes to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this weekend, throwing open large areas of land which previously were forbidden to walkers.

Although the new legislation has been bitterly opposed by some landowners and farmers who fear damage to walls, stiles and footpaths, the national park authority is throwing a party to inaugurate the new system.

Walkers will be able to step off the hundreds of miles of footpaths and bridleways and explore nearly 400 sq miles (1,022 sq kms) more access land which will be opened up when the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act 2000 comes into force in the Upper North West and North East England on Saturday (May 28).

The new right of open access will be launched by the YDNPA in partnership with the Countryside Agency, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and English Nature at Ribblehead in the shadow of Yorkshire's famous Three Peaks - Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside.

Guests will include Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight and mountaineer Doug Scott CBE, who was one of the first Britons to climb Everest.

They will be invited to experience the new right first-hand by taking part in a series of guided walks around the Ribblehead area, which includes the wonderful Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, famous for its special limestone geology and associated flora.

(With kind permission form Daelnet )

The big access news has been the 'opening-up' of  Hawkstones (aka Hugencroft) under the CRoW Act, and climbers can now enjoy continual access to this infamously once banned grit crag.

The replacement of ageing fixed equipment at Malham, Kilnsey and  Goredale continues apace, and some retro-bolting of existing routes and establishing new routes at other peripheral crags has occured. This had the effect of providing many more sport routes for people to enjoy, taking some of the traffic away from the 'Big Three'  and sparked a big debate on the 'Future of British Climbing' in Skipton - the details can be viewed on  the BMC website at www.thebmc.co.uk/news.asp

A major rockfall has occured on the main gritstone buttress of Penyghent, and has de-stabilised a large area of rock. The bottom half of the route 'Brass Monkey' (HVS) has disintegrated.

Please take great care if planning to climb in this area.