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The Run-Gear Glow-Up • Maximalist trainers. Low-profile sunglasses. Silky-smooth shorts. Here’s the new stuff to make logging miles pure pleasure, no matter where the path takes you.

It’s Time for a Trail-Town Trip • Three trail-running havens where we’re always glad we brought extra kicks

What Exactly Is a Super Trainer? • You know the shoes Ruth Chepngetich and Eilud Kipchoge wear, partially responsible for some of the fastest marathon times ever recorded? Those are called super shoes. They’re thick soled, with ultralight, hyper-responsive foam midsoles embedded with carbon-fiber plates. Think of super trainers as the more easygoing but still light and responsive cousins of super shoes. We sliced one open at our gear lab in Colorado to find out what makes them go zoom.

Food Fight • The risks of training while depleted are finally getting lots of attention—maybe too much

The Cult of the Mountain-Town Weatherman • Alpine communities have their own microclimates, which makes forecasting a tricky business—and a local fixation. Who dares try their hand? A few brave amateur meteorologists. We talked to one of the most popular to find out why.

The 50 Most EPIC Adventures IN NORTH AMERICA (Some Hard, Some Not So Much) • Behold! We’ve redefined the modern adventurer’s bucket list. Classic trips have been reconsidered—you’ve gawked at the Grand Canyon, but have you run it from rim to rim?—while new destinations have caught our eye. This year we’re joining the revelers at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, trekking up Mexico’s tallest volcano, paddling through the world’s brightest bioluminescence, off Puerto Rico, hiking Canada’s wildest coastal way, and much more. What do these trips have in common? They’re incredible experiences, all.

THE DESERT GIVES UP ITS BONES • For decades, turtle counters have scoured California’s and Nevada’s Mojave Desert to monitor the numbers of a threatened species. But on occasion, their search has uncovered human remains. How did this remote area become a land of cold cases? MARK SUNDEEN digs into the mystery.

High Notes • When a writer learned that her parents had left each other love notes in summit registers for over 40 years, she dove into the archives—and the history of the registers themselves—to find them

Summit Seekers • ADAPTIVE ATHLETES COMMAND RESPECT ATONE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA’S TOUGHEST UPHILL TRAIL EVENTS

THE RETURN • In the final days of World War II, an American soldier found a Japanese sword on an Okinawa beach. It bore a tag with a request—one that long went unanswered. Eighty years later, he and his grandson KEVIN CHROUST set off in search of the blade’s owner.

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