Volunteers carry the cross, which is more than 30ft high, to the top of the Otley Chevin every year to mark the onset of Easter.
The team gathered together on Saturday morning (Apr 5) to make the painstaking journey which has been ctaking place for more than 50 years.
An early Easter service will be held on Easter Sunday at 7am at the cross.
The Chevin cross was first installed in 1969, has now become a well-known Easter symbol. It is put up each year, two weeks before Easter and removed two weeks after.
The current cross is made from wood that was salvaged after the Manchester IRA bomb on June 15 1996.
Now a local tradition organised by Churches Together, the cross has been installed every year apart from 2001 because of restrictions caused by foot and mouth disease, and in 2020 and 2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic.
5. Otley Chevin
The tradition of raising of the 32ft high wooden cross, on Otley Chevin for Easter, a local tradition since 1969, organized by Churches Together in Otley, and is erected two weeks before Easter and removed two weeks after. Picture: James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty
6. Otley Chevin
The tradition of raising of the 32ft high wooden cross, on Otley Chevin for Easter, a local tradition since 1969, organized by Churches Together in Otley, and is erected two weeks before Easter and removed two weeks after. Picture: James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty
7. Otley Chevin
The tradition of raising of the 32ft high wooden cross, on Otley Chevin for Easter, a local tradition since 1969, organized by Churches Together in Otley, and is erected two weeks before Easter and removed two weeks after. Picture: James Hardisty. Photo: James Hardisty
8. Otley Chevin
The tradition of raising of the 32ft high wooden cross, on Otley Chevin for Easter, a local tradition since 1969, organized by Churches Together in Otley, and is erected two weeks before Easter and removed two weeks after. Picture: James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty