We did this contest a few times last year–really enjoying it!! So, let it begin, again! Your first three opportunities to win will be: Chuckanut 50k this Saturday (3/21)!! Gorge Waterfalls 100k and 50k (3/28, 3/29) As many of you know, our employee Glenn Tachiyama has been taking race photos for years. See them here. […]
Here’s the best of the best for February 2015 – #Top7 Top7 Women’s Trail Running Shoes Topo RunVenture Altra Olympus Altra Superior Pearl Izumi Trail M2 Montrail Fluid Flex ST Topo MT Altra Lone Peak Top7 Men’s Trail Running Shoes New Balance Trail 980 Altra Lone Peak Altra Superior Hoka Huaka Pearl Izumi Trail N2 […]
New Balance Fresh Foam 1980…aka “Zante” This shoe will be a new addition to our road shoe collection soon. Check out what Kevin has to say about it. It quickly shot to the top of my list for training shoes. I found it soft and supportive when I was looking for an easy day, but […]
It’s go time for the Rainshadow Running Prediction Contest!! Get your Predictions in for the Gorge Waterfalls 100k!! You can win a free pair of Montrail Shoes!! The Gorge 100k is a part of the Montrail Ultra Cup this year–with Western States spots up for grabs. contest details
Team 7hills had a great showing at the recent Orcas Island 50k, led by Masazumi Fujioka’s 4th place finish. It’s his first year as a sponsored team 7hills runner but he wore our gear at lots of races last year like White River 50, UTMB, and TNF 50 San Francisco. We caught up with him […]
January is one of our slower months–sales wise–but a lot of inventory arrives! So we’ll start with a more pertinent #Top7 list: Top7 New Products of 2015 (that have already arrived to the shop) Salomon Sense Mantra 3 – These shoes are wide in the toe box!! Not Altra wide, but wider than any other Salomon. […]
“I have a hard time taking Merrell seriously as a trail running shoe.” At our Rattlesnake Mountain group run, I was extolling the merits of the soon-to-be-released Merrell All Out Peak, and Kay uttered these words. I have often heard them on the sales floor as well. Even with such dubious opinions of Merrell floating […]
…the question is: will anybody care? When La Sportiva re-issued a classic last year, it went bust. The C-lite, nee Cross-lite, is already a Gone Shoe again. So, I worried about ordering 101s at all. At first they were not on our Spring 2015 orders, but several customers expressed interest in getting them again. I […]
You’ve seen our staff favorites; you’ve seen the team’s picks. Now the buying public gets their turn: Women’s Top7 Trail Shoes of 2014 Scott Kinabalu 2 Pearl Izumi Trail M2 Pearl Izumi Trail N2 Montrail Fluid Feel 2.0 Altra Lone Peak 2.0 Salomon XR Mission Hoka Stinson Trail/ATR If we would have combined the Lone […]
We asked all of the sponsored team members to pick their favorite shoe from the 2014 season. Our sponsored group is a good mix of athletes, all with different running backgrounds and distance/ terrain specialties. The variety we see across their top shoe picks reflects this pretty well. Some People just COULDN’T pick one – […]
