Altra Lone Peaks on Sale

[peregrina2000]

Every year around this time, I buy the soon to be outdated Altra Lone Peak. Lots of sites have the Lone Peak 8s on sale, in anticipation for the Lone Peak 9. I like to be a year behind because then I can check to see if there have been a lot of reported issues with the current year’s model (saw mostly very good things about the 8s). And they’re on sale!

You can play the odds and wait till they get really cheap or buy now when the selection is much better, though they are only about 1/3 off right now.

Mine arrived today, which means that I am now committed to a camino in 2025, fingers crossed it will happen.

 

[peregrino_tom]

FWIW over the years I have followed forum members' recommendations, first moving to Hokas and then buying Altras. Enjoyed walking in both and felt the fit and cushioning was a significant upgrade on what I'd been using before. Start of this year I tried some INOV8 shoes (Rocfly) and I am hooked on them now - very comfortable, but a little firmer and more robust. In particular the toe cap, which is important - if like me - you spend much of your walking time looking up and around you, rather than scouting for obstacles on the ground in front of you. INOV8 seem to follow the same manufacturer pattern as Altra, with a lot of sale items at the moment (and probably through January with size options gradually decreasing, natch) after which point a replacement model costing three times as much will appear..

 

[ThingamaBrig]

Every year around this time, I buy the soon to be outdated Altra Lone Peak. Lots of sites have the Lone Peak 8s on sale, in anticipation for the Lone Peak 9. I like to be a year behind because then I can check to see if there have been a lot of reported issues with the current year’s model (saw mostly very good things about the 8s). And they’re on sale!

You can play the odds and wait till they get really cheap or buy now when the selection is much better, though they are only about 1/3 off right now.

Mine arrived today, which means that I am now committed to a camino in 2025, fingers crossed it will happen.

I love Lone Peaks but nothing around me has them on sale, even the Altra store online doesn't have my size in the 2023-2034 version. Notihng on ebay in my size and new (or newish). I'm curious where you are finding them on sale!

 

[peregrina2000]

I love Lone Peaks but nothing around me has them on sale, even the Altra store online doesn't have my size in the 2023-2034 version. Notihng on ebay in my size and new (or newish). I'm curious where you are finding them on sale!

I am in the US, so that may make a difference if you’re not. I got them on the Altra website, but lots of sites (REI, Backcountry, Sierra) have them on sale too.

 

[Anhalter]

FWIW over the years I have followed forum members' recommendations, first moving to Hokas and then buying Altras. Enjoyed walking in both and felt the fit and cushioning was a significant upgrade on what I'd been using before. Start of this year I tried some INOV8 shoes (Rocfly) and I am hooked on them now - very comfortable, but a little firmer and more robust. In particular the toe cap, which is important - if like me - you spend much of your walking time looking up and around you, rather than scouting for obstacles on the ground in front of you. INOV8 seem to follow the same manufacturer pattern as Altra, with a lot of sale items at the moment (and probably through January with size options gradually decreasing, natch) after which point a replacement model costing three times as much will appear..

Unfortunately someone at Inov8 had the "great" idea to rebrand the company. Lots of models have disappeared, some have been changed, not always for the better. The model i was using does not exist anymore and the sucessors all feature GoreTex which i don't want in my shoes.
So better check if your model is affected and maybe get some spares while they are still on the market. I have two more sets of my model and then it's off to the horrible process of finding a good shoe again...

 

[mla1]

I’m in Canada and tend to get them on sale in the winter/spring. I am two versions behind with Lone Peak 7s. Last year they were so cheap I bought two pairs! You have to be willing to wear weird colours!

 

[lt56ny]

FWIW over the years I have followed forum members' recommendations, first moving to Hokas and then buying Altras. Enjoyed walking in both and felt the fit and cushioning was a significant upgrade on what I'd been using before. Start of this year I tried some INOV8 shoes (Rocfly) and I am hooked on them now - very comfortable, but a little firmer and more robust. In particular the toe cap, which is important - if like me - you spend much of your walking time looking up and around you, rather than scouting for obstacles on the ground in front of you. INOV8 seem to follow the same manufacturer pattern as Altra, with a lot of sale items at the moment (and probably through January with size options gradually decreasing, natch) after which point a replacement model costing three times as much will appear..

You can play the odds and wait till they get really cheap or buy now when the selection is much better, though they are only about 1/3 off right now.

Some good advice from some really experienced peregrinos/as. I wear Brooks Cascadias. A great trail runner for me to wear on Camino. Haven't had a blister in years and lots of cushion and support also.
What peregrina 2000 says is so true about waiting. I would say unless you have like a man size 9 or so (American sizing) or whatever a woman's equivalent is I would not wait. I have a really big foot and I NEVER see my size when they have the cheapest closeout sales. I am already looking for a sale price for my cascadias for next year's camino.

 

[VeganCamino]

I love Lone Peaks but nothing around me has them on sale, even the Altra store online doesn't have my size in the 2023-2034 version. Notihng on ebay in my size and new (or newish). I'm curious where you are finding them on sale!

I got mine in August for $75 on Amazon. They are higher now, $95! I haven't found REI or Amazon or the Altra website to have good holiday sales and I've been looking.

 

[mla1]

I found mine for about $80 on a Canadian website called the Last Hunt. You have to know exactly what you want because there are no returns. But the discounts can be huge.

 

[SeñorJacques]

I walked the CP in Lone Peak 8s this past spring and absolutely loved them as far as comfort and support were concerned. They were my third pair since I discovered Altra shoes a few years ago and almost everything about the way they felt and supported my feet was better than previous versions. (They also dried out very quickly after getting wet, which was a very welcome thing after trudging through several days of muddy trails.)

The one thing I was disappointed about was their durability: literally the day after I got to Santiago, part of the upper near the toebox started to delaminate from the rest of the shoe. I repaired them the best I could with some tent patch tape and Altra was great about honoring their warranty (I'm sitting on a store credit for the 9s as soon as they come out!), but it was a bummer to get barely two months out of them before they started falling apart. There are several reports of similar experiences in reviews on the Altra and REI websites. Hopefully they'll address the durabilty issues in the new version.

 

[peregrina2000]

Altra was great about honoring their warranty

I’d be interested to know what the terms of their warranty are — I never thought of that!

 

[SeñorJacques]

I’d be interested to know what the terms of their warranty are — I never thought of that!

It's a one year limited warranty on "manufacturing defects" if they're bought directly from Altra or an authorized retailer (I assume REI and Zappos in the U.S. would fall under that category):

Warranty | Altra US

Read more about Warranty

www.altrarunning.com

When I got home from my walk with my damaged right shoe, I contacted Altra customer service via chat and the rep was very accommodating when i explained the situation – as I mentioned in the previous post, I don't think I'm the first one to have encountered the delamination issue. So they issued me a credit with not many questions asked. Customer service like that is something that keeps me a customer for life!

 

[SeñorJacques]

@peregrina2000, I have to thank you for starting this thread! Had I not seen it, I might not have been reminded to check out the Altra website to see if the Lone Peak 9s were out yet ... and lo, they are!

https://www.altrarunning.com/en-us/trail/mens-lone-peak-9/

From the feedback from wearers who presumably received pre-release pairs for review purposes, it does indeed look like these are more durable than the LP8s. And since Altra didn't increase the price from what I originally paid for my LP8s, I was able to order a pair in my size before they sold out (which kept happening with the wide versions of the LP8s the first several times I tried to order them.)