Yule Calder Loop

This is a great mixed loop with some off-track following your nose along a stream to connect track ends.

Start at the Oakenclough crossroads and head up the hill on the road. At the end of the plantation on your left head through a forestry gate and follow the track alongside the fence/wall gradually climbing up to Stang Yule.

At the first junction keep left, and again at the next two. The track will turn and start to head north. It then drops down to cross the Calder stream.

At this point the off-track section starts - follow the stream downstream, picking up rough sheep tracks and crossing wherever you need to. This is slow going with scrub and some boggy patches, but very pretty.

Eventually, you will come across a little bothy and barn, and the start of a 4WD track. Follow this out until it meets the road, turn left and head back along to the Oakenclough crossroad start point.