November Top 7 Trail Shoes

ByPhil Kochik

photo credit: Glenn Tachiyama

 

Altra continues to dominate our trail world: can you see why we’re so excited about the Topo Terraventure that just arrived?! It’s drawing lots of comparisons to the Lone Peak. The Terra’s 3mm heel lift will likely appeal to a lot of folks!

November Men’s Top7 Trail Shoes

  1. Altra Lone Peak 3.0
  2. Altra Olympus 2.0
  3. Hoka Speed Instinct
  4. Altra Lone Peak NeoShell Low
  5. Altra Lone Peak Neoshell Mid
  6. Altra Superior 2.0
  7. Saucony Peregrine 6

November Women’s Top7 Trail Shoes

  1. Altra Lone Peak 3.0
  2. Altra Olympus 2.0
  3. Merrell All Out Peak
  4. Altra Superior 2.0
  5. Altra Lone Peak Neoshell Low
  6. Saucony Peregrine 6
  7. La Sportiva Akasha

These lists are just a prelude to our most favorite time of year: End of Year “Best of” Lists!

Soon we’ll post our #Top7Trail brands and shoes of the year–and why not: a Top7 Road list too! Also, the Prediction7 where we try to guess what will be hot for 2017–and check in to see what we got wrong from last year!

To start it off, we’ll soon list employee favorites of 2016 and the “7 shoes every Trail shop should have as they start 2017.”

Stay tuned!

2015

Top7 Brands – Shoes : Men’s – Women’s

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