These are not your shoes for jaunts around your local woods but for serious high altitude mountain running where you’ll possibly be above the snowline, enduring everything that a winter mountain marathon can throw at you.
As with the amazing S-Lab backpack we’ve also selected for the Outdoor 100, these are out of the S-Lab, a design studio within Salomon that works with their pro athletes and consistently turns out some very innovative gear.
They work across all sports, but it’s been in the arena of trail running where we’ve seen some of the biggest developments, not least with the aforementioned range of jacket-like backpacks. The S-Lab XA Alpine shoe is a similarly sophisticated product. As you can see, they are unlike nearly every other trail running shoe thanks to the integrated gaiter.
“These are for serious high altitude mountain running where you’ll possibly be above the snowline, enduring everything that a winter mountain marathon can throw at you.”
