For days, no – weeks, I have been lying in my self-built ambush. I have traded my colorful Activeshell jacket for a camouflage poncho and blackened my face with a burnt cork from a wine bottle. All this to remain unseen in the hole I dug in the ground under some scrubs opposite the gates [...]

One of the best days in the life of a TRAIL Magazine editor is when you get to do a shoe test that you choose the shoes for yourself! In the next issue we want to present five of the grippiest trailshoes for mud and melting snow. Now I take them all over one of [...]

Summertime, holidaytime. Half the continent traveled to far-away islands in order to get grilled in the sun and check out bikini girls. I saw none of all that during my trip to Wales last summer. Instead, I went on a quest to find Excalibur, ran up and over Mount Snowdon a couple of times and [...]

Kilian’s Quest starts into the second season. In the first short film, there are some impressive images of Kilian’s winter season and great running impressions from his first kilometers of trailrunning this year in Provence.

Trailrunning in its purest form: park the gripmobile next to an unknown forest, head straight into the woods and from then on just follow the landscape where it’s the most fun…

The film about Stephan and Babsi Tassani’s record run around the world-famous lake in Berchtesgaden, Bavaria. Can you run around the Königsse in under six hours? And – if so, how fast can it actually be done? The answer, and some of the most awesome landscapes in the german Alps, as well as hairraising highspeed [...]

Here it is, the Gripmaster’s director’s cut of the Transalpine Run 2009. Eight days, 500 runners, the Alps…. an epic undertaking which, at it’s fifth edition was tackling the fabulous western route from Oberstdorf to Latsch again. The day before the race, intimidating rainfalls threatened to spoil the party, but at the start, the sun [...]

South Africa’s most successful desert runner is a shooting star. Ryan Sandes from Capetown came out of nowhere when in 2008, he scored a start-to-finish victory at the „4 Deserts Gobi March”… Gripmaster got to go for a run with him on Sandman’s rest day for a few hours and used the opportunity for a [...]

3 days of trail shoe testing in Riva del Garda in Italy… 3 runners ran 280 kilometers to check out the newest models from all over the world. It was hard work but very interesting! The full test is in the new TRAIL Magazine on february 1st: www.trail-magazin.de Here’s a look behind the scenes:

Storm “Daisy” has neglected us for the whole weekend and only provided the rest of Europe with that fun fluffy accessory, snow… But finally! It’s snowing…. So it’s time to hit the trails and get those new Icebug SISU shoes dirty…. First on the trail, again! Northern Germany has blocked freeways…here, Daisy is filling up [...]