Alpine Shop Kirkwood Adds Local Delivery to Services During COVID-19 Pandemic

You’ve always been able to shop bikes and boats on-line at alpineshop.com. However, due to service agreements and costs, we’ve also always had you come into the store to pick up your new gear. But, for a limited time at least, that’s about to change.

Introducing FREE local delivery of oversized items from alpineshop.com. This new policy applies to all over-sized items, including racks, and all snowsport hardgoods, as well.

For all other items on our site, our standard FREE Priority shipping with USPS still applies. But if you’re looking to reduce your stress level in these uncertain times by exploring our area by either paddle-or-pedal-power, we can make that happen for you now.

Local Delivery means one of our outfitters will personally bring these items to your home in a safe and sanitized method. Please call us at (314) 962-7715 for more information.

Deliveries will be made by appointment during our regular business hours.
Delivery staff will sanitize all gear for you before it is loaded, wear gloves at all times when touching the boat and will also wear a facemask if they are within 12 feet of you.
Delivery outside of our normal service area is also available. Please call for more information.

We can’t wait to start loading up our delivery van with new boats for you!

NEW COVID-19 Delivery:

Alpineshop.com is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for all of your outdoor fun and adventure needs. New and exciting spring items are arriving daily. All on-line orders enjoy Free USPS Priority Shipping with any purchase of $50 or more, excluding oversize items.

During these challenging times, Alpine Shop is offering FREE local delivery within 50 miles of our Kirkwood store for oversize items like boats, bikes and racks. This means one of our outfitters will personally bring these items to your home in a safe and sanitized method. Please call us at (314) 962-7715 for more information.

Deliveries will be made by appointment during our regular business hours.
Delivery staff will sanitize all gear for you before it is loaded, wear gloves at all times when touching the boat and will also wear a facemask if they are within 12 feet of you.
Delivery outside of our normal service area is also available. Please call for more information.

Policies & Services Available by Store Location: (Updated 4/18/20)

Alpine Shop Kirkwood (Mo.):
• Curbside bike sales and service are available in compliance with all local laws and recommendations.
• FREE Local Delivery within 50 miles of this location for oversize items. (See above.)
• Please visit alpineshop.com for all other outdoor gear needs.

Alpine Shop Chesterfield (Mo.) and Columbia (Mo.):
These locations are closed according to the Missouri state Stay at Home Order through at least May 4, 2020.<

The Pathfinder (Manhattan, Kan.):
• Curbside bike sales and service are available in compliance with all local laws and recommendations.
• Curbside pick-up is available for all purchases. You can browse a selection of The Pathfinder’s available stock on-line here or call the store for any product or service inquiries at the number below.

April 7, 2020

Socks for Heroes on TV!

Holly and I were on KSDK Channel 5 in St. Louis yesterday, challenging our community to help provide 1,000 pairs of socks for our front-line workers including First Responders, Medical personnel, and other Essential Employees like delivery drivers and grocery store workers.

As a grandma and Alpine Shop sock buyer for 30+ years, I know that a great pair of socks can make a good day great or make a bad day a little better. (More about that in the PS!)

Now through Monday, 4/13/20, for every pair of socks our community sponsors, we’ll donate another pair, up to 500 pairs of socks for a total of 1,000 pairs to be delivered to those helping to preserve our health and safety.

Click through to our “Socks for Heroes” page here.

Once on the website you will be able to select which profession the socks from your donated funds will contribute to, and you can choose whichever donation level feels right out of the three options ($30-$20-$10).

—Lisa Hollenbeck

PS Knee-high compression socks help boost circulation for that last bit of energy needed to get through a long day whether sitting or standing, and they now come in pretty patterns and colors. Our plantar fasciitis and bunion socks offer extra support when you just can’t stay off your feet. And our fine denier 200 needle hiking socks offer premium cushioning and support when you don’t need compression.

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

Socks for Heroes – Sock Drive

One of our owners, Lisa Hollenbeck, put forward a number of questions to our Facebook family about ways that we could help give back to our community – and to the people that are putting themselves in harm’s way on a daily basis to combat COVID-19.

As more and more people talked on that post, we decided the best way forward was with her “Socks for Heroes” program. Here was how she originally put it:

The bottom line is that I really believe the circulation-enhancing aid of a good pair of compression socks can make all the difference for a pharmacy tech on his feet for a double shift or an EMT who needs energy to get through one more call.

We heard from a number of EMTs and medical personnel who all agreed that compression socks were absolutely difference-makers during the long hours they spend on their feet.

So that’s what we’re starting today- our Socks for Heroes Sock Drive.

We have three categories you can make donations to: Medical Personnel, First Responders, and Essential Services Workers. If you’d like to help, just click here and pick the donation level you’d like to provide. For every pair of socks we’re able to donate with these funds, we’ll match with a pair of our own up to 500 socks. (For reference’s sake, a pair of Sockwell Elevation Compression socks for women, one of the main styles we would recommend for these workers, retails at $26.99.)

We’re hoping we can get our loyal customers to reach that 500 total sock limit, which means we would provide 1000 socks for the workers that are helping us all during this pandemic.

We also know that those workers need all the help they can get right now. So, we’re going to run this sock drive for only a week. It will end next Monday, April 13 at 7 pm. And then we’ll get these on as many feet as we can.

You’re help is truly appreciated. Please donate here.

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020

No Joke! Alpine Shop Purchased 42 Years Ago on April 1, 1978

One of the original signs from Mooers Alpine, Alpine Shop’s predecessor.

In 1973, a local St. Louis climber and Army Map Service employee, Bob Mooers, author of “Finding Your Way in the Outdoors” (still available used at Alibris, 99¢ and up), convinced Chouinard Equipment, a growing climbing brand at the time, to open him as a dealer. So, Mooers started a climbing shop – in a small room upstairs from the home wine-making shop he was moonlighting on the side. It took one month for climbing to outsell wine-making, which was then abandoned in a move to a new, larger space.

Five years later, “Mooers Alpine” was thriving, but Mooers was looking to sell and move to the Northwest.

Russell “Holly”, and Lisa Hollenbeck, co-owners of Alpine Shop, on a recent trip out West.

A 45-year-old customer of his from that exact same area of the country had come to St. Louis to work in the city’s banking and finance industry. A change-in-leadership at the company he worked for had soured Russell “Holly” Hollenbeck on that field though, and he considered himself a “fugitive” from corporate life. While skiing at Snowbird in Utah during the winter of 1977, Hollenbeck broached the subject of purchasing Mooers Alpine with his family. On April 1, 1978, “Mooers Alpine” became “Alpine Shop” with Hollenbeck as the new owner.

42 years later, climbing is still at our core, but over the years we have added gear, clothing, events and clinics for almost every type of outdoor enthusiast, from backpackers, hikers, campers, paddlers, and cyclists, to snowboarders and skiers, at four locations in Missouri and Kansas.

Alpine Shop Kirkwood’s collection of historic climbing gear, cleared from big walls in Yosemite National Park by friend-of-the-Shop Rich Copeland. Copeland died in a fall in Yosemite in 2014 and the outpouring of tributes was truly amazing.

Less than a year ago, at the 2019 Grassroots Outdoor Alliance summer meetings, Alpine Shop was named Retailer of the Year.

Chouinard Equipment morphed into Great Pacific Iron Works which went on to become Black Diamond and Patagonia. Our first supplier remains our largest and one of our most admired.

After 48 years in the business, it is Alpine Shop’s Vision to see Generations Transformed by Discovery Outdoors.