The Otter African Trail Run The Otter Run presented by Salomon and GU has been dubbed “the Holy Grail of Trail Running.” At 42km it is a full trail marathon that traverses South Africa’s most iconic hiking trail; the Otter Trail, arguably one of the most beautiful trails on the planet. The Otter Run is the only time when trail running is permitted on the Otter Trail.
The 2012 Otter African Trail Run/Challenge (Retto Route) presented by Hi-Tec and GU continues to attract major interest via the many conventional/social media sites in South Africa and internationally – this year’s event has truly taken the Grail Of Trail into new territory ! Timing Splits RUN & CHALLENGE We have also attached the TIMING [...]
Female winner of this year’s Otter African Trail Run Krissy Moehl has requested that R3500 of her prize money be donated to the Land Mark Foundation. Krissy is one of the world’s most accomplished trail runners having won amongst others the UTMB, widely regarded as the World Cup of Trail Running, the American Grand Slam [...]
Course Record Smashed and First Black Medals Awarded On Saturday 13 October 2012, an impressive field of international trail runners gathered on the beach in Natures Valley to tackle the reversed Otter Trail Run course, known this year as the RETTO. As predicted, the highly competitive field kept race organisers and spectators guessing right up [...]
It’s now down to the wire, counting the days and hours, before this year’s Otter African Trail Run (Retto Route) presented by Hi-Tec & GU. The Otter Trail is looking as incredible as ever with the safety teams having been out there frequently watching the changing conditions unfold at the many potential hot spots of [...]
The annual Otter African Trail Run presented by Hi-Tec and GU, like its counterpart The Otter hike attract folk from all over the globe. This year’s event is no exception with a posse of international athletes flying in to challenge the fourth running of world famous hiking trail. Jetting in from France is title contender [...]
7 Weeks till you line up for the Grail of Trail!! I feel a surge of adrenaline just writing that statement and I (Mark Collins – Event director) am not even running. It’s almost upon us and these next few weeks of training are arguably the most important of your preparations. Magnetic South, together with [...]
The Dassie – the Otter’s Little brother – has been introduced. A beautiful 10 km trail starting and finishing at Stormsriver Mouth joining the last kilometers of the OTTER Run. The race starts nice and early at 7.30 am in the morning – 1.5 hours after the start of the OTTER – and Dassie athletes will finish through the same [...]
In preparation of the annual Otter African Trail Run Event – Magnetic South does a variety of Scout Runs that involve the Event Management Team as well as Mountain Rescue to guarantee a smooth and safe running of the event. For the very first time in history of the OTTER, the route will be reversed [...]
The Crags – Update May 2012 www.landmarkfoundation.org.za The Landmark Foundation is conducting a camera trap survey in the area between Stormsriver and George as a part of their larger leopard corridor project to determine the status of the leopard population here. Working closely with Ingwe Forest Adventures in the Crags, we have completed the first [...]
Our event scout team ran the 3rd west to east test run of the Otter Trail and confirmed what we long suspected; the Retto is a classified beast!! Whilst anyone who has ever done it will recognise the Otter African Trail Run is an absolute animal, our scout team reported that the beast is the [...]