Cancelled for 2020: Puncak Tanawan Mountain Ultra

Like all of you, we are very much looking forward to the day when we can announce “the heat is back on!”, but sadly today we must announce another event cancellation. The Puncak Tanawan Mountain Ultra on Negros Oriental in the southern Philippines has been officially cancelled out of health safety precautions. The event was scheduled for the first week of June, but event director Rhodel Sarande and his team of Happy Feet are unable to guarantee a smooth organisation given the current ECQ (enhanced community quarantaine) and the uncertainty when this will be lifted. Even if this were to be lifted soon, local mountain communities are fragile and have expressed reasonable concerns, reflecting those in the Cordillera mountains up north. Happy Feet has therefore already decided to cancel this year’s third edition and look ahead to 2021 straightaway.

Puncak Tanawan Mountain Ultra was a newcomer in this year’s Asia Trail Master Championship following the unfortunate demise of the Mount Talinis Mountain Ultra at the end of last year.

It means the first points races on the ATM calendar have now become Dalat Ultra Trail, Moon 100 and Echigo Country Trail on 19-20-21 June.