On the PCT in 2019, everyone and their mother seemed to be wearing Altras. You would see their outsole’s signature design — a footprint — all throughout the sandy desert trail in California. I was a very inexperienced hiker, and I kept seeing these prints and hearing people talk about them, but I kept mishearing them described as “ultras.” I didn’t know what they were, and I especially didn’t know what people meant when they described them as “zero drop.” I was 150 miles into my hike, in Idyllwild, California, and I was shopping for my first pair of trail runners. I’d brought a pair of Gore-Tex boots, a size too small, into the hot, hot desert. My blisters had blisters. The outdoor retailer there told me I had wide feet and that Altras would fit well, but she was
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