Thursday 28 March 2019

Bowland Forest Populaire


CTC Lancaster & South Lakes

Bowland Forest Populaire: Sunday 28th April 2019

This year’s Bowland Forest Audax Populaire, an annual cycle tourist event organized by CTC Lancaster & South Lakes, is the 17th of the series.

For 3 years now the ride has been reorganized in order to join with the annual Scarecrow Festival in Wray. The route was redesigned to start & finish in Wray.

As last year the route starts and finishes at the Village Institute, Wray – starting at 09:00. The course circumnavigates the eastern section of the Bowland Forest in an anticlockwise direction and is almost entirely on minor roads.

The basic route outline is:
Wray – Claughton – Caton Green – Quernmore XR – 5 Lane Ends – Harrisend Fell – Oakenclough – Bleasdale - Chipping
Whitewell – Dunsop Bridge – Slaidburn – Tosside – Wigglesworth – Rathmell - Eldroth – Keasden – Mewith Lane – Wray.

The event is open to all cyclists and is approx. 102km / 64 miles long. It is not a race and riders may take between 5 hours and
8 ½ hours to complete the course.

There will be marshaled checkpoints at both Chipping [42km] and Rathmell [80km] plus 2 information checks [at 23km & 61km respectively]

Further details & entry forms are available from Mike Hutchinson,
CTC Lancaster & South Lakes.
Entries from members of Cycling UK / CTC or of Audax UK cost £5;
non members pay an extra £3 to cover insurance costs. *

* It is essential that all riders have 3rd Party Insurance for the duration of the ride.

Mike Hutchinson, 18 Lawnswood Avenue, Lancaster LA1 4NZ
‘phone [01524] 36061 e-mail: mikehutchinson@fastmail.fm

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