![]() What We Don’t: Switching to zero-drop shoes can be a “challenging” transition and the company’s yet to release a cheater insole to ease this process What We Like: Roomy toeboxes and their commitment to zero-drop shoes Popular Trail Models: Lone Peak, Olympus, Superior FYI, a few Hoka models like the Torrent 2 and Challenger ATR 6 have a sustainability bent and include post-consumer recycled plastic in their uppers.įor more on what’s going on at Hoka One One, check out our full reviews of the Hoka One One Speedgoat 4 and Hoka One One Torrent 2. Of course, not everyone wants a super cushioned ride, and that’s where a shoe like Hoka’s Torrent comes into play with a more moderate cushioning in what’s still a distinctly Hoka and trail-worthy shoe. ![]() The Challenger ATR offers a similar package with just a tad less cushioning, and both ATR models are great transitioning from road to trail and back. Yeah, there are 4mm lugs, a breathable upper, and a gusseted tongue, but you buy this shoe for a heaping dose of its midsole cush. Plush doesn’t do the Stinson ATR justice… and the brand’s description of the shoe as a “hovercraft” might just work. If you want to take max cushioning to the extreme, then the Stinson ATR is for you. If there’s been one general issue with Salomon, it’s that some folks find their shoes run a bit long and narrow.įor more on what’s going on at Salomon, check out our full reviews of the Salomon Cross /Pro, Salomon Sense Ride 3, Salomon Speedcross 5, and Salomon Ultra Pro, and Salomon Wildcross. The Sense Ride series offers great comfort in what’s decidedly a road-to-trail package, while the S/Lab Ultra line has simplified over the years, leading to a great shoe for that five-mile trail run out your backdoor or your next multi-day effort in the mountains.Įven as Salomon cuts its S/Lab Sense and Sense SG models after eight generations, it continues to add cutting-edge options across its line with the ultralight, highly rockered S/Lab Pulsar, stirring things up at the racing end of the spectrum and the forthcoming Ultra Glide offering what might be the brand’s most comfortable trail shoe to date in this highly cushioned offering. The fact that Salomon’s only on version five with the Speedcross after so many years is a testament to just how well the shoe works. To start, there’s the Speedcross, which, while not at all flashy, has been the hallmark of the brand’s trail running offerings for a decade and a half with the line’s luggy outsoles, well-structured uppers, and Speedlace lacing system. It’d be a fool’s errand to try and spell out even a majority of Salomon’s offerings, but here are a few highlights to give you a feel. The brand has enough of the market to offer a dizzying array of models that fit nearly everyone’s needs from the shortest and fastest of trail racers to shoes that can easily tackle your next 200-mile race. Well, a decade later, Salomon is at the front and center of trail running… wherever you are in the world. outside of its top-of-the-charts trail-shoes-for-hiking models. In the late naughts, Salomon was already the dominant trail shoe brand in Europe but very much a secondary offering in the U.S. Salomon is the 800-pound…err, 400-kilogram gorilla in the trail shoe space. What We Don’t: Slow to offer a maximal cushioning offering, but that’s about to change What We Like: High-quality construction with a huge variety of models to hit nearly everyone’s needs Popular Models: Speedcross, Sense Ride, S/Lab Ultra You can also head over to our Best Trail Running Shoes article for a can’t miss list of a top trail shoes. For more detailed looks, see our trail running shoe reviews. Below, we provide a list of 10 trail running shoe brands you can’t go wrong with, what makes each brand stand out, and what some of their key models are. With that in mind, we put our decades of experience with trail shoes and trail running brands to work in trying to simplify the trail running shoe landscape into something more manageable. However, all that choice can be overwhelming, even paralyzing. Truly, it’s a marvelous time to be a trail runner. From likely no more than one or two models in any geographic market in the early 1990s to a handful of options that all too often resembled hiking shoes in the early 2000s, and now more than 30 brands offering far more than 200 trail running shoe models at any given time. Wow! How far trail running shoes have come over the past few decades.
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