Firstly hello. Some of you may remember me from the 1980s when I was messing about on the long distance scene. If any of you are curious as to where I’ve gone it’s simple. I’m knackered. A walk up Orrest Head is now a long day out for me!!
I’m no longer in the FRA, but still get sent copies of Fellrunner. The Spring 2012 edition has a comment about a crossing of Tan – Cat by Geoff Petengel and his party. His claims for a winter record are unfortunately incorrect, but this is because much information about the run is misplaced or has never been recorded.
The apparent holder of the winter record is Pete Simpson, who some of you may know. I supported Pete on his run, hence my interest. His winter time may also be the overall record for a crossing of the route.
Pete and I went for a pint or two last night, and worked through what bit of info we hold on the route. We’ve decided to try and collate information up to date on all attempts, successful or not, and this is the reason for this post.
We still have various bits of information on the route, but have no idea where it all came from or if it's up to date, or indeed if it ever was!
Do any of you know of any attempts, at any time on this route? If so are you able to let me have details? Dates, times etc would be most useful. We are trying to gain access to the Rucksack Club archives, but we suspect that not everyone passed their details over.
So, if you’ve got any information at all could you drop me an e-mail ([email protected]), and we’ll try and put together a history of the route, and maybe it will appear in print sometime!
Hope some of you can help, many thanks if you can.