51st to 60th Fellsman
Results From 2017

• 481 Entrants entered the event (including 39 who withdrew before the event)
• 68 Non-starters
• 374 Started the event
• 82 Entrants retired or voluntarily withdrew from the event
• 1 Entrant was disqualified for losing their tally
• 291 Entrants finished the event.

• The winner of the Fellsman Axe was Chris Perry with a time of 11 hrs 21 minutes.

It was 1966, when as a senior scout Trevor first helped on the event we have all come to love and enjoy, in the time Trevor has been involved the event has changed many times, believe it or not back then fell running wasn’t heard of.

 

Over the years Trevor has had many roles and helped developed the event to become the one running today. His first role was part of the equipment check team at Ingelton Village Institute, checking walking boots supplied sufficient ankle support and the sole was either commando quality or had hob nails, hikers had the correct weight of emergency rations and torches had spare batteries and bulbs. How times have changed with technology of LED lights and fell running clothing.

 

Although a former member of Keighley Scout Service Team Trevor never stood on the event committee but has undertaken many jobs to aid with the smooth running of the Fellsman including: Body Van driver (in a van), running Hawes transport point, driver to the hike organiser, checkpoint officer at Redshaw with his own scouts, Radio operator, Coach driver, and Equipment store worker.

 

“Trevor remembers one event In the mid 1980’s, 19th Keighley Ingrow Scout Group owned a 45 seater coach, one of his jobs this year was to transport a full coach from Hawes transport point to Threshfield. On one of the many trips past Cray he noticed that he had a car behind him, this car followed him all the way to the finish making no attempt to pass. It was only when back at Threshfield unloading that the driver of the car made it known he was the local policeman. The officer knew he was on the Fellsman and had noticed (unknown to me) that there was no rear lights on the bus, so for safety and not to delay entrants getting back to base and the warmth he had followed him to provide rear lights. He helped him check and repair the fuses, got the lights working then went on his way.”

 

Between 1994 and 2010 Trevor took a break from the event to raise his own family. But who would know that it was the next generation that would get him back involved. In the second part of Trevor’s Fellsman story, he has worked in the background of recent event supporting his own son and son in law (both current committee members) to help organise current communications, transport and event logistics prior to registration opens on the Friday evening. In the week leading up to the event he either shipping vehicles or drivers back from the hire centre or towing caravans to Cam Houses ready for event control, during the day on Friday he is part of the team that works his way round the checkpoints setting up radio aerials.

 

All entrants that have completed the Fellsman over the last 7 years will have passed Trevor working tirelessly with Tim Credland and other volunteers running the final checkpoint at Yarnbury. Encouraging you that it’s just down the hill now and this checkpoint isn’t on the bus route.

 

This year Trevor has made the decision that the overnight cold stint is too much these days but fear not I’m sure we can find him another job some where…

 

His help and knowledge of the event is much appreciated and when I told Trevor that he had been awarded the John O’Connell award he was touched to be considered.

• The Bear Grylls Award is awarded by the Committee to the young helper/team who showed great dedication in helping on the event. In 2017, this award was presented to Aeryn Moor, Laura Wilson and Hannah Wilson of Bedale Scouts for their excellent work helping the Master Check team in the Threshfield control room, as well as manning the Fellsman Shop on the Sunday morning.

03-05-2017: Please accept our apologies. It appears that due to some computer problems on Saturday evening a number of waiting times were not correctly applied to finishing times.
All tallies have now been visually rechecked and the waiting times amended accordingly.