This is another Trail Runner Nation gear review and Don is going to be reviewing the Ultra Lone Peak 1.5. Lone Peak by the way is named after one of the rockiest mountains in the Wasatch range in Utah. Well, you know, so the shoe had that in mind and I imagine what I'm looking at on the side of this shoe is probably that hill profile or that mountain profile for lone peak and that's kind of cool when you put a hill profile or a mountain profile on the side of your shoe. So, you know, it's built for mountain running. One point for that. And the other thing that I like about Ultra is that cool.

I mean, so the first thing I like is there's this hill profile, right? The second thing is, look at the bottom of that shoe, Scott, and what do you see? I see a foot. A foot. I remember the first time going down a trail on a race, actually, and I see this foot in front of me, coming up every time the guy took a step, this image of this foot, and I thought, you know

what, that's pretty cool.

Well, you know, I've wanted to try this shoe for a while because the story behind it is pretty cool. It's actually some runners, local in Utah, that owned a running store, decided that there was a niche that was not getting handled by the big manufacturers. So they started making these shoes. And now they're a big name and trail running. You know becoming bigger. And I think they will with this shoe. One of the second thing I noticed when I pulled this out of the box was the top of the underneath on the lid. So I'm talking about the box and not even the shoe's got, but they give you some instructions and some tips on how to be a midfoot runner for foot foot strider. Oh, really? Yeah, it's okay.

I mean, so it gives the good natural running center rendition, Mark Cooke-Zellus type rendition, at least as my impression of how to run properly. So would you call this a minimal issue, maximal issue, what would you call it? Well, zero drop for one. So I'm gonna go straight out of the gate with a minimalist type of philosophy.

We're not stacking this thing up on the back

and in leaning forward.

So, we're not in starting block. one. So I'm going to go straight out of the gate with a minimalist type of philosophy.

We're not stacking this thing up on the back and leaning forward. So you're not in starting blocks

as a sprint. That's right. And then you take a look at it and there's plenty of room in the

forefoot. So in the toe box, Scott, there's a lot of room up there. And you know what my rules about

shoes? They have to look fast. Yeah.

Well, I'm going to take this one away from Ultra

because it doesn't look like a fast sexy shoe.

It looks more like a...

Well, you got the black one though.

I got the black one, but there's a red one.

Look at that red one.

The red one does look racey and it does look faster.

But the black one looks more, I'd say almost orthopedic like. Right? I say that, but I don't mean that to be a tractor because I've worn them plenty of miles and I'm starting, you know, like a mother loves her child regardless of what what what he or she looks like. That's how I feel about this shoe. It's comfortable. You slide your foot in there and that wide box up front. I usually try to reserve shoes only if they're're trail shoes, I only use them on the trail because I feel like I take some of the karma magic something out of it. I don't wanna put it out on the street or the road or take train your running shoes. I don't want them to get in the walking habit. I couldn't have said it better myself Scott. You're exactly right. I want them to be disciplined for the trail. I don't want them to know a softer life, right? I want them to only know this is what we do. And so, but in this instance, I put them on. They're so comfortable. I just kind of wanted to wear them around. House lounge, you know, who needs me to go to the store? That type of thing, they were just nice and comfortable. It didn't disappoint me when I got out of the trail because same thing they feel good. I like the way they feel. Now I know you have run this with the shoe on a portion of the Western State's trail. Pretty good downhill section. How is it on the downhill? Plenty of room up top, right? So here's one of the things I noticed. Normally I wear 12. This came in 12.5, a little bit bigger and I thought it was going to be big. But in fact, I guess perhaps they knew my size and they wanna go up a little bit. So don't be afraid if you're on the fence, which side to go lean towards the bigger size. And I didn't notice any problem with them being too big or too sloppy or too much room. And going downhill as your foot naturally slides and moves forward, no issue with that. So, and I was out there for six hours. It's in no blister, no hot spots, you know, shoe performed well. So I really, really enjoyed that. One of the things I'm concerned about with the trail shoe is drainage. Well, you know, I did step in purposely into some water so I could report on this and I'm glad that you said that, Scott, so that I could report that I did that. When you look at that cool profile of the mountain on the side, that isn't a drainage mountain. There's some material on there that does eliminate some quick drain. I'm going to give a downside to the drainage component. But in thinking about that, and it took maybe, I would say, you know, 20 yards or so before I forgot that I was running with what fee. Yeah, so it's not like a deal breaker, but it wasn't like some of those shoes just blast out and you know, you squirt the guy beside you because there's so much There's so much porous material

But I was thinking maybe there's a trade-off for that maybe maybe it lets him less debris Maybe and you know the people that are around the table doing the design said yeah, but you're running dirt more than you run in the water And so you know It's better to keep this stuff out and more blisters are created because of all this fine dust So maybe there's a thought behind it.

So I'm just reporting what I find,

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