Hoka Challenger 7 Flame/Cherries Jubilee

Released on 8 June 2023 and part of the Challenger ATR 7 line. This release has a mesh upper in Flame/Cherries Jubilee. Flame with Cherries Jubilee is heat on heat, a bright orange red against a deeper cherry tone, and it is the Challenger 7 at its most aggressive. The Challenger is the all terrain member of Hoka's range, built to leave the road and keep running, descended directly from the oversized outsoles two former Salomon employees built in Annecy in 2009 to run downhill faster. Red has always suited trail shoes because it reads at distance, on a hillside, in poor light, against wet rock. On the exaggerated sidewall stack this pairing gives the shoe an obvious direction, with the darker cherry grounding the brighter flame above it.