Experience Optics Designed & Proven by Trail Runners

We have taken our Experience Optics technology to the trails designing the first-ever trail-focused running glasses. Trail running requires quick, continuous assessment of the technical terrain three to ten feet ahead of you: the “Trail Runner’s Cockpit”.

Lightweight & Extra Durable

Anti-fog, Anti-scratch & Hydrophobic

Protection against UV & Infrared Heat

M7 30% Polarization


Vision Enhancing

Unlike most sunglasses, which are typically about fashion and often darken, distort, and over polarize (kill contrast), the TRAIL26 lens enhances your running visual experience.


More Good Light

Using advanced notch filtering and precise coating technologies, the Method Seven TRAIL26 lens is brilliantly bright allowing more of the best wavelengths of light to your eyes and brain, comfortably and safely.


Crisper & Clearer

More light means more information to make faster and better decisions for unmistakable foot placement. The TRAIL26 lens is designed to render trails, roots, rocks, and stream crossings crisper and clearer than ever before, from dawn to dusk, from forest to field.

Meet Method Seven Trail

The perfect choice for exposed and tree-covered trails alike


Huntress TRAIL26

  • Hand-tooled, ultra-lightweight Japanese titanium (18.2 grams)
  • Slip-free temple tips & nose pads designed for movement
  • Custom-formulated polycarbonate lenses
  • 26% VLT (visible light transmission) lens with M7 30% polarization
  • No-tangle nose pads
  • Made for smaller faces with 121mm temple length
  • Brown-red Frame
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Closer TRAIL26

  • Hand-tooled, ultra-lightweight Japanese titanium (20.9 grams)
  • Slip-free temple tips & nose pads designed for movement
  • Custom-formulated polycarbonate lenses
  • 26% VLT (visible light transmission) lens with M7-30% polarization
  • Wrap style for great peripheral coverage
  • For normal/wider faces with 135mm temple length
  • Gray-blue Frame
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The Trail Runner’s Cockpit

As your run and the terrain changes from easy, flat, open trail and roads to technical climbs and descents, the primary focus for the eyes and brain changes and each of the different zones within your visual field has more to offer. These changes happen naturally with your peripheral vision and subconscious, with muscle memory also playing a huge role.

Zone 1

We call Zone 1 the “Too Late Zone”: whatever is going on in this zone is almost always in the past, especially if you are running fast.

Zone 2

Zone 2 is the zone you’re in or about to be in and consists mostly of your peripheral vision, guided by your subtle, subconscious decision-making in foot placement.

Zones 3, 4, 5

Zones 3-5 are the “Hot Zones” when blasting on technical terrain: the places where you need to be taking in accurate and precise information to make quick, careful decisions on critical upcoming steps.

Zone 6, 7

Zones 6-7 are what we call the “Zone Out Zone” and the “Chill Zone” - when you can focus on what’s in the distance and things are easy. The further out you can look and glean information, the faster you cover ground and the more confident you are.

Our Methodology

We studied these zones to make sure color and light information was super-available for the runner’s eye. Conventional sunglasses fall short on the near zones due to cheap and overdone polarizing which kills contrast in zones 3-5, the most critical decision-making zones for a trail runner on technical terrain.

Most conventional sunglasses distort vision in zones 3-5 and are more concerned with better looking sunsets or cool colored frames. While we love a good sunset at M7, we believe only sunglasses that optimize vision in zones 3-5 can make you a faster runner on trails.

Method Seven Trail Technology Specs

Advanced Notch Filtering

  • More of the best wavelengths of light to your eyes and brain, comfortably and safely
  • Better peripheral vision

7 Precise Coating Technologies

  • Two anti-reflective coatings (inside and outside)
  • Hydrophobic coating
  • Anti-fog coating
  • Anti-scratch coating
  • Infrared coating
  • UV absorption coating

30% Polarization

More intelligent glare management for:

  • Better physical contrast
  • Better color contrast
  • Better color fidelity
  • Quicker, better focus

26% Visible Light Transmission

  • Usable from dawn to dusk, shade to direct sunlight

Best-in-class UV Protection

  • UV400 rated

Best-in-class Infrared Protection

  • Cooler eyes (literally)
  • Less brain and eye fatigue

Ultra Tested & Proven. Meet the Trail Beta Team

Product innovation and design is only part of the process. We tasked a team of the best to prove our glasses in the field.


Dean Karnazes

Dean Karnazes is the Godfather of ultra running and the best-selling author of Ultramarathon Man. Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits.


Cat Bradley

Cat Bradley is a professional ultra runner who is here to change the industry she grew up in. With nearly ten years under her feet as an ultra-trail runner, she has seen the good and the bad in this rapidly growing industry.


Avery Collins

Avery Collins is not your average professional athlete. In an industry where pros are told to mold their beliefs to cater to those of the consumer, he speaks out about the medicinal properties of marijuana and uses it to aid his training. Collins runs high.

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