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This time of year, there’s a certain eagerness in the air among the Run the Alps crew. We’re getting close! Our trips’ numbers are taking shape, huts are being booked, and run descriptions are being reviewed. For those of us in trail races, confirmations are flying between email accounts. It’s time… almost! As Run the

Pablo Vigil won one of Europe’s most prestigious trail races, Sierre-Zinal, four times in row—a record that stands to this day.

A rowdy midnight start amid 400 glowing headlamps. Dozens of miles of wintry, Colorado backcountry. Wildly enthusiastic volunteers placed strategically at high passes and deep in the forest. Reclining with beers in lawn chairs at the sunny Aspen finish. The Elk Mountain Grand Traverse has got to be, hands down, one of the most remarkable

Much like in the US, trail running and trail racing continues to grow and develop in the Alps. One of the most impressive new events is the Ultra Trail Verbier-St.Bernard, or TVSB, which is really three-races-in-one– a 111-km “X-Alpine” course, a 61-km “Traversée,” and a 29-km run between the villages of Liddes and Verbier. (The

As we head into 2015, and I look back on this past season of trail running in the Alps, it’s often the people who come to mind as much as the mountains and the trails. And, top among those people this year was someone who has run over 375 races in the last three decades, René Pletschet. By itself,