I’ll be honest, I’m a lazy trail runner. I generally have to Google PR to be reminded that it means personal record. I’m not really concerned about my PR versus your PR, I’m just interested in an adventure. I love that I can take a train at 6 am and be on a trail about...
One of my favorite mountain runs is to go from Wildhaus to Santis via the blue SAC Alpine route. This route climbs quickly from the valley and then offers a long ridge to the Altmann before taking the Lisengrat to the Santis summit. It’s an ideal location from St. Gallen, Winterthur, Zurich and Chur as...
Braunwald is a wonderful village near the end of Glarnerland in Switzerland sitting at just above 1200 m with easy access from a train and then a funicular. It's an ideal day trip from Zurich for climbing, klettersteig (via ferrata), paragliding, hiking, easy mountaineering, and trail running adventures. I originally headed there to go over...
Summer’s over! Riding the tram home on Thursday evening I picked up a copy of the free paper Blick am Abend. On page three a I read “Der Sommer war schön” (The summer was nice). I think to myself, “was nice” it’s only August there is still a good month of summer left and, summer...
A simple wish comes true Since I started running marathons, I’ve wanted to run in an inaugural race. When I found out through my friend Mark that Grindelwald was putting together the EigerUltraTrail, I knew I wanted to do it and so I signed up for the 101km. I had done the Swissalpine K78 a...
Back to Zermatt There is something comforting about returning to someplace familiar. For the third year in a row on the first Friday in July I took the train to the most picture perfect alpine city there is — Zermatt. With it’s international fame as a resort for the rich and famous, Zermatt is best...
For a marathon day getting up at 7am is rather late, but quite the welcomed treat. The day’s mission was to run the legendary Frauenfelder. Now if you’re not from Switzerland, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Frauenfeld, though it does host Europe’s largest hip-hop festival every summer and is also home to...
What do you get for the world’s most beautiful marathon on it’s 20th birthday? How about a full three days of unbelievably beautiful summer weather and nearly double the number of participants from all over the world, oh and for good measure the right to host the Long Distance Mountain Running World Championships. Well that...
One of the most beautiful (and there are many) mountain locations in Switzerland is Glarus, and if you’re in the area, a nice run is from Elm to Linthal over the Richetlipass and is about 20km and 1200m elevation gain. This run started in Elm Dorf at 977m, after passing a Swiss tank base you...
Where you live? How well so you know your region, city, or even neighbourhood? Our immediate area is something that many of us take for granted, that is until that lost tourist stops you and asks where James Street or Predigerplatz is and you have no idea. With today’s smartphones and maps easily accessible we...