Scafell Sky Ultra 2025
Info: Entries for this event open on Friday 18th October 2024 at 08:00.
| Entry Fee | £110.00 | |
| £120.00 | (from 01/01/2025) | |
| £130.00 | (from 01/04/2025) |
62km with 4400m ascent | Saturday 31st May 2025 | Based in Central Lake District
We are very excited to bring you the inaugural Scafell Sky Ultra, a technical sky ultra distance trail race played out in the Central and Southern Lakes
62km of mountain terrain and 4400m ascent: Scafell Sky Ultra is played out on technical, single-track trails from start to finish. It’s a Lake District journey that will test the endurance and stamina of experienced and aspiring mountain ultra athletes.
This is the race route to equal the best mountain ultras in the world, right in the heart of the English Lake District
The SCAFELL SKY ULTRA is what you have been waiting for Lake District Sky Trails. This mountain sky ultra will make your mind, body and soul will for it to continue and stop at the same time.
Building on the Scafell Sky Race and the Helvellyn Sky Ultra, the team at LDST have come up with a corker of a route. In usual style think; A roller coaster of a route, uber technical trails to 'live for', ridge-lines to excite the most excitable of skyrunners, the highest summit in England and to top it all off, a whopping 4400m route profile in just 60km.
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Entry requirements
You must be at least 19 years old on race day to enter Scafell Sky Ultra.
Entries are not vetted: however, Scafell Sky Ultra is much more than your average trail run, this is a fully fledged Mountain Ultra Race and we expect you to come fully prepared. You will be tackling 62km of steep and technical terrain, and you will need to be a skilled and confident mountain runner to make the course cut-offs and complete the route. We will ask you to detail your relevant running/racing experience at the point of entry, and this may include:
- Longer, technical trail races such as Keswick Mountain Festival 25 or 50km;
- Other vetted or unvetted skyraces, e.g. Ring of Steall Sky Race, Mourne Skyline, V3K etc;
- ‘Long’ category fell or hill races;
- Skyrunning skills training courses with Mountain Run or elsewhere.
Included in your entry fee:
- Fully marked course
- 4 fully-supplied feed station and *** manned checkpoints
- A finishers’ Seed Bomb Medal - so when you have had enough if it, just plant it and wild flowers will grow!
- Electronic timing & tracking from Open Tracking
- A professional Safety Officer and supporting safety team
- A professionally planned event delivered by an highly experienced team
- A 'Tour de Force' of the Central and Southern Lakeland Fells, taking in the highest mountain in England
- A World Class Sky Ultra Race
- A ranking for Skyrunning UK, as the SSU is part of the Skyrunner® National Series for the UK and Ireland
- A great day out in the mountains with hard-to-earn adrenaline and endorphins ...
Optional extras are available via SI Entries:
- Scafell Sky Ultra quality cotton tee (available exclusively to race entrants, £30 each) - [design available to view online, prior to purchase]
- Branded goat-bells for your support team (£25 each) [These are real 'alpine' goat bells made from solid brass]
- Post-race massage (£25, with 25% donated to local school - Chapel Stiles)
View the Event Disclaimer / Terms and Conditions.
View the Event Cancellation / Refund Policy.
This event offers the option to purchase XCover, so that participants may be able to get a refund if they are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances.
Other Lake District Sky Trails events this weekend
| Fri 30 May 25 | Stickle Grind 650 |
| Sat 31 May 25 | Great Langdale 21 |
| Sat 31 May 25 | Scafell Sky Race 2025 |
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