“When you’re standing barefoot, your heel and forefoot both make contact with the ground,” explains Ben Stark, an avid ultra-marathoner and performance marketing senior specialist at Merrell.

If you’re planning on putting in a lot of miles in the backcountry this summer, you’ll need a shoe that can hold its own against rugged and uneven terrain. Merrell has just the shoe in the Barefoot ...

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If you’re a big VFF fan, you may have been thinking about moving toward a more closed shoe for trail running but didn’t want to sacrifice the delicious toe splay offered by “real” foot gloves. Merrell ...

It's fair to say that most trail running shoes are beefier than the road variety, as they're designed to take on roots, rocks and other trail debris. Many runners use them as a winter running shoe as ...