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The Q’eros Nation – The Last of the Incas
The Q’eros Nation is made up of five communities in the Peruvian Andes, roughly 75 extremely rugged miles east of the nearest city, Paucartambo. An estimated 2,000 people call these communities home,...
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With Beauty and Positivity
We all have that friend. The one who, the second they cross over into their favorite landscape, they transform. And the first time they connected with that wild and wonderful place a piece of their...
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Unexplored and Unpredictable
Canadian adventurer, ultrarunner, and youth expedition non-profit impossible2Possible founder Ray Zahab is no stranger to big adventures. Over the past decade-plus, he’s crossed some of the world’s...
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2019 GORE-TEX Kahtoola Uphill
The morning of this year’s Kahtoola Uphill started out windy, gray, and overcast—not ideal conditions for the day of a mountain race. But, by race start, the uphill gods swung things in our favor. The...
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Knowing When ‘It Just Isn’t Going to Happen’
Last year, when we successfully completed our 1,850km expedition across the Namib Desert, I remember thinking, as I always have after any one of my expeditions, that it was specific components and...
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A New Approach to Gaiters
Great design starts with curiosity. We’re always in search of solutions to problems, but before a problem can be solved, it needs to be identified and understood. From there, we design, test and refine...
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Throwing a Lot at Rob Krar
When we decided to stray out of winter and enter the spring and summer seasons with the Kahtoola INSTAgaiter Low and Mid, we had to ask ourselves a simple question: How do we make gaiters fun? Up to...
View ArticleDo Hard Things
At no point in my life did I decide to become an ultrarunner. In the same way that you cannot decide to walk out the door one morning and meet the love of your life. Ultrarunning is something that...
View ArticleBetter Because of Running
I don’t remember a lot of college. I just wasn’t paying attention. Caught in my own bubble of existence, not thinking about many things beyond what came next. When I met my husband, I think I brought...
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It’s Not All About Winning
To nobody’s surprise, the Rob Krar Ultra Camp this July had zero shortage of nerding out on running. One topic that came up early and often was TransRockies Run, and for good reason. It’s a special...
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Protecting the Grand Canyon, Together
The Grand Canyon spans 1,902 square miles. Within its wildly colorful walls stretch 277 miles of epic river, sacred lands filled with secrets and hidden treasures, and sublime beauty as far as the eye...
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Rebuilding Sarsyu Primary School
In May of 2017, Dan Maurer and Anthony Mancini, directors of Flagstaff, Arizona-based nonprofit Elevate Nepal, explored many projects around Nepal with their Nepali partner Resham Bal. Even two years...
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2020 GORE-TEX Kahtoola Uphill
When the GORE-TEX Kahtoola Uphill began in 2007, it was nothing more than a handful of friends who were inspired to climb a mountain, have some fun, and embrace human-powered movement and activity....
View ArticleKahtoola Virtual Run to Benefit Havasupai Tribe Raises $25,000
People run for all sorts of reasons. We run to improve our physical and mental health. We run to disconnect. We run to compete in races and achieve goals. We run simply because it’s fun. Running can...
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Ascending Elbrus
It’s 9 a.m. and the dark storm clouds from the previous day are already starting to roll in. I’m close, maybe even within a half-mile from the summit, but I have to move quick. Outfitted with my mom’s...
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More Than White Spaces
In my adulthood I have relocated many times up and down the eastern seaboard, but have ended up (hopefully permanently) in the great state of Vermont. In the summer it glows green, much like a bumpy...
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Fusing Two Winter Worlds
Most people know us for our award-winning MICROspikes®. Dependable and aggressive, they’re great for hiking on frozen mountain trails and terrain—but not so much on roads. This led us to develop...
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The Race is Not Always to the Swift
It was late July (2018) when I came across Kahtoola’s Keep Ultrarunning Weird, a short film that gave me such a profound sense of yearning that I signed up for an ultramarathon—the San Luis Obispo 50k...
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Hope in an Uncertain World
It’s been a year, to say the least. I distinctly remember a conversation I had with a friend over lunch in February. As a medical doctor, I valued his professional opinion on whether he would feel...
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Closing the Gap
As outdoor enthusiasts, we go out of our way to protect every part of our body from the elements in order to keep comfortable. Sun hats and glasses, rain shells, puffy jackets, gloves, base layers,...
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