Help us wish Chaco a very happy 30th birthday this April at one of four different birthday celebrations over two different days! Join us on Wednesday, April 24 at our St. Louis-area locations- Alpine Shop Kirkwood from 6-8 pm and Alpine Shop Chesterfield from 5-7 pm; and at Alpine Shop Columbia and The Pathfinder in Manhattan, Kan., on Thursday, April 25 from 5-7 pm.
To celebrate, we’re offering 15% off all Chacos on April 24-25 inside our stores all day long. We’ll also be giving away two pairs of sandals at each location. Simply sign up to win!
Plus, you can also take home a Chaco Wrist Wrap Bracelet for FREE simply by presenting your phone to us showing a photo of you and your Chacos in a post you make on Facebook or Instagram using the hashtags: #BirthdayChacos & #AlpineShop! It’s that simple!
All stores will feature Chaco tacos along with local craft beer (except at The Pathfinder) and birthday cake! There’s no charge to join in the fun, but we hope you’ll find a new pair of Chacos to help celebrate 30 years of the iconic sandal!
It’s that Time of Year Again: Friends & Family Time!
It’s time for us to invite you back into our stores this Friday, November 9, for our Winter Friends & Family Celebration at any Alpine Shop location, or at our Manhattan, Kansas, store, The Pathfinder!
That’s right – 20% off the full, retail price on almost everyting in our stores including all apparel, outerwear and footwear. We’re even offering the same deal throughout our camping department, as well. Looking for some new goggles? Those, too! Bike gloves? Yep! You get the picture. Certain exclusions apply. See below.**
We know you’ll work up an appetite shopping for all these deals, so we’ll be providing complimentary food and drink for you to enjoy while you’re in the store with us.
The receptions start at noon this Friday and keep on going until we close up the shop for the night, but the deals start from the moment we open our doors. There’s absolutely no charge to attend!
Yes, you read that correctly… You can save 10% off the retail price on nearly every bike or boat, ski or ski boot, snowboard or snowboard boot (although most snowsport items are already discounted more than 10%)!
We invite you to share this event with your own friends and family! The more, the merrier!
Can’t make it to the store? Shop on-line at alpineshop.com using the coupon code: AlpineFamily. (But you can’t do that until Friday, April 12!)
**Note: 2019 Spring Friends & Family offers valid 04/12/2019 ONLY at Alpine Shop locations and The Pathfinder (Manhattan, Kan.), or on-line at www.alpineshop.com. Discount may not be combined with any other coupons or offers. Excludes all gear from Felt, GoPro, Jackson Kayak, Kuat, Specialized, Thule, Yakima & Yeti brands. It also excludes all previously discounted merchandise, previous purchases, gift cards, Alpine Shop clinics and any boat or ski package deals or service work. Sale price limited to in-stock items only.
For 2019, Alpine Shop will support our non-profit partners through a grant program that will combine funding from a portion of every Off-Road Racing League registration, sales of pint cups at each of our SchlaflyAl-Pint Nights and through a brand new option, as well…
Our new 2019 FULL YEAR Schlafly Al-Pint Night 24 oz Adventure Steins.
Alpine Shop, Stanley and Schlafly have partnered together to bring you a limited edition 24-ounce FULL YEARAl-Pint Adventure Stein!
When you purchase an Al-Pint Adventure Stein (in black or red), you earn the right to participate in any of the six remaining 2019 Schlafly Al-Pint Nights. Simply bring back your Al-Pint Adventure Stein to any Al-Pint Night the rest of the year, check-in at the beer table, and you’ll receive your two free 12 oz pours of Schlafly Beer.
Al-Pint Adventure Steins will be available for just $25 at our next Al-Pint Night on April 11, in support of the Ozark Trail Association, and at each remaining pint night while supplies last! (Retail value of stein and beer is over $45!)
Thanks for helping support our local non-profit organizations, like the OTA! The Thursday, April 11 Schlafly Al-Pint Night will go from 6-8:30 pm at Alpine Shop’s Kirkwood location.
2019 The North Face Shaw Bloom Trail 10k winner Sam Aufmuth ran away from the field, literally. His closest competitor was more than five minutes behind him over the 6.2 mile course
GREY SUMMIT, Mo. – Officially, spring began last week. For the 403 runners who participated in the 2019 The North Face Shaw Bloom Trail 10k/20k on Saturday, March 23, spring definitely arrived with absolutely pristine conditions for a trail run at the Shaw Nature Reserve just west of St. Louis.
Sam Aufmuth of Washington, Mo., blitzed the field in the 10k, opening up a wide lead within the first mile of the new course and expanding that lead to more than five full minutes, finishing in 39:38.9. He was followed to the finish line by Kyle Steele (Rolla, Mo. – 44:37.2) and Adam Wurr (St. Louis, Mo. – 44:59.3).
In the women’s 10k field, Karli Green of St. Louis took home the win with a final time of 50:23.8. Megan Berg (St. Charles, Mo. – 51:03.4) and Rachel Mlsna (Oconomowoc, Wis. – 52:27.1) rounded out the top three.
For the 20k field, Ryan Winter of St. Louis was the overall winner in a time of 1:29.35.3. Ankur Patel (St. Louis – 1:32:03.8) and Jason Buck (Imperial, Mo. – 1:33.29.2) finished out the top three.
On the women’s side in the 20k, Shanna Brinker of Washington, Mo., took home top honors in the race with a time of 1:44:08.4. Courtney Sweetin (Brentwood, Mo. – 1:46:24.8) and Juliah Grunloh (St. Louis – 1:49:56.9) took home second and third, respectively.
Full results are available below. For more information on the race, including the course, past results and the Shaw Nature Reserve, please visit the Off-Road Racing League site.
The Ultimate Travel & Packing Tips for Any Adventure – Saturday March 2
A Special Presentation by Angel Castellanos – Travel Expert, National Speaker & Eagle Creek Traveler
This highly informative presentation is packed with the most up-to-date, savvy travel tips, and inspirational stories from all over the world, to help travelers travel smarter, better and cheaper. Angel will deliver the best travel tips on packing smart, safety, de-stressing the airport experience, saving money, sightseeing hacks, traveling with technology and much more!
No matter your level of experience, you are bound to come away with practical current travel tips for any adventure. The packing demonstration included in this talk is one you do not want to miss. Packing in a carry on? After this presentation, packing in any bag will not be a problem! Travel smart, well and often!
Don’t miss Angel Castellanos at the Get Outside Expo 2019, along with 30 hours of classes, demonstrations, movies and more, from Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3 at our Kirkwood location.
Find out how the MR340 grew from 11 boats in 2006 to over 500 boats in 2019. The World’s Longest Non-Stop River Race has been listed as one of National Geographic‘sTop 100 American Adventures and it draws paddlers from around the world. Best of all, it happens right in our backyard.
Scott Mansker is the race director for the MR340 and will be presenting during the 2019 Get Outside Expo at noon on Sunday, March 3
Imagine a race across the entire state of Missouri, just you and your boat thrown against 340 miles of wind, heat, bugs and rain.
The Missouri 340 is an endurance race across the state of Missouri. Competitors will start in Kansas City and finish, some of them anyway, in St. Charles. With numerous towns and hamlets, the course offers plenty of opportunity for resupply while en route. The Missouri River is also incredibly scenic and isolated in some stretches, with wildlife and beautiful vistas to rival any river in North America. But if you’re trying to win this race, you won’t have time to enjoy any of it.
Participants are allowed exactly 88 hours to complete the course. There are nine checkpoints along the route where paddlers are required to sign in and sign out. Cutoff times will be associated with these checkpoints based on the 88 hour pace. Failure to miss two consecutive deadlines is grounds for disqualification. To finish this race in 88 hours is a huge accomplishment. Only 2/3 of the teams were able to do that last year.
There are no dams, locks or portages on this stretch of the Missouri. You could, conceivably, finish this race without ever having left your boat. (We don’t recommend it.) This doesn’t mean that the race is without danger. Any time you put yourself on the water, especially moving water, you assume a certain amount of risk. The Missouri 340 course is all on Class I water. The current is about 3 mph and there are no rapids. The biggest hazard to paddlers would be motorboats, mostly fisherman, and the occasional towboat pushing barges. In river obstacles would include wing dikes, buoys and bridge pilings.
On Saturday evening, March 2 at 7 pm, at the 2019 Get Outside Expo, Alpine Shop is proud to present – on the side of our building weather permitting! – DamNation, a feature film presented by Patagonia, on the impact of dams throughout our nation.
The film is FREE to all participants and will also feature a complimentary beer from Urban Chestnut Brewing Company for those 21 and older.
The Story
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.
DamNation opens big, on a birth, with the stirring words of Franklin D. Roosevelt at the dedication of Hoover Dam, and on a death, as the engineer at Elwha Dam powers down the turbine on its last day. DamNation stints neither the history nor the science of dams, and above all conveys experiences known so far to only a few, including the awe of watching a 30-pound salmon hurtling 20 feet into the air in a vain attempt to reach the spawning grounds that lie barricaded upriver. We witness the seismic power of a dam breaking apart and, once the river breaks free, the elation in watching wild salmon – after a century of denied access – swimming their way home.
The People
DamNation’s filmmakers have done their documentary homework. Rediscovered archival footage and pristine vintage photography reveals the young archaeological “salvage” team working against time to recover priceless Anasazi artifacts before the flooding of Glen Canyon in 1958. We meet singer Katie Lee, who was among the last to experience the canyon and, at the age of 94, still recalls the vivid beauty of its walls. Her nemesis, Floyd Dominy, the long-time Bureau of Reclamation czar who dammed Glen Canyon, exudes pride in his power to alter a landscape. We also hear from dam defender Congressman Tom McClintock and dam critic, ex-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.
Most of the voices in DamNation ring far from the lobbied halls of our capitols, and closer to the heart of a river. We hear the smoldering outrage of a Nez Perce elder recalling from his youth the flooding of his people’s sacred falls and fishing ground along the Columbia, and the quiet testimony of a river keeper who has manned his post 12 hours a day for 13 years to count, observe and protect a Rogue River steelhead run. And DamNation is not without its action heroes, including the activist/artist who two decades ago painted under moonlight a giant crack down the face of Hetch Hetchy’s dam.
The Shift
DamNation shows how far things have moved and how quickly, from the assumption 50 years ago that dams were always a power for good, to the first successful attempt to remove a marginal dam 20 years ago on the Kennebec River. The film highlights other dam removal stories, including the Elwha and White Salmon Rivers in Washington, the Rogue River in Oregon, and the Penobscot River in Maine.
Diverse interests across the country are coming together to remove obsolete dams and find more cost-effective options to meet power, shipping, irrigation and other needs, while helping to restore rivers, preserve tribal customs, recover fish stocks, revitalize waterfronts, improve recreational opportunities and render watersheds more resilient to climate change.
Dam owners, impacted communities, and politicians are now reevaluating the usefulness of certain dams and often advocating for decommissioning and removal. Some call it a movement, others call it a generational shift in values.DamNation documents both – and the undeniable momentum behind river restoration that has begun to take hold in our country.
Origins
When, as a young man, DamNation producer Matt Stoecker witnessed migrating steelhead jump at, and bounce off, Stanford University’s Searsville Dam, he recognized the destructive power of a single dam on an entire watershed and beyond. Matt is now a fish biologist, who has since spearheaded the removal of more than a dozen such barriers to migration and is actively involved in efforts to dismantle several others. He and Patagonia founder/owner Yvon Chouinard, a long-time “dam buster” who for years has supported groups working to tear down dams, share the desire to free our rivers. Together they decided to capture such efforts, and their healing effects, on film and share them with the world. Teaming up with Felt Soul Media’s Ben Knight and Travis Rummel, DamNation was born.
Join us on Saturday, March 2 at Alpine Shop Kirkwood at 7 pm for our presentation of DamNation!
$5 at the Pint Night gets you a custom plastic pint cup, plus two free pours of some fantastic Schlafly Beer.
We’ll also be pre-selling a brand new way to enjoy Al-Pint Night’s in 2019… More details will be coming on Wednesday, February 27! Stay tuned!
The Missouri Whitewater Association (MWA) is a public organization which exists to encourage the growth of paddling as a beneficial recreational sport and a recognized competitive sport, to teach paddling skills, river safety techniques, to sponsor river trips and other outdoor activities, and to educate club members and the general public about the sport and about river conservation. The MWA will be hosting the Missouri State Whitewater Championships on March 22-24 on the St. Francis River near Fredericktown, MO.
Team River Runner – St Louis (TRR) with ST. Louis VAMC gives military veterans and their family members an opportunity to find health, healing, and new challenges through whitewater boating and other paddling sports. The benefits of TRR have as much to do with social support, finding emotional strength and re-creating personal identity as they do with athletic activity.
The St. Louis Canoe & Kayak Club supports canoe and kayak related activities, trips and educational programs. The Club promotes safe and ethical use of our waterways. Other projects include helping to keep our waterways clean and provide instructional skills clinics through the year.
Is your Valentine an outdoor lover? Does he or she love to hit the trail, sleep under the stars next to a campfire, wake up the next morning and do it all over again? If so, then there’s only one place you should be looking for Valentine’s Day presents: Alpine Shop!
Why stick to boring flowers that will be dead in less than week? Why add more sugar to their diet with candies? Give them something they’ll cherish for years every time they wear or use it!
Tonight, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 from 7–9 pm, we’re hosting our first ever Cupid’s Kegger at our Kirkwood location to make finding the perfect Valentine’s Day present the most fun it has ever been! We’ll have complimentary beer on hand from Schlafly (okay, it will be bottles, not a keg, but the idea’s still the same) and extra outfitters throughout the store to help you find the perfect gift for your outdoor loving Valentine.
Oh, and if your Valentine isn’t a big outdoor lover? Well, you can still come in and grab a beer and shop for yourself. After all, you need to show some love for yourself, too. Right?
*You must be 21 to partake in Cupid’s Kegger. And if you didn’t know that already, please, don’t bother coming in to the store. For those over 21, please limit yourself to two beers. Thanks!
Alpine Shop, Burton, and Hidden Valley are proud to bring a brand new event to the slopes for 2019, the Inaugural King of the Mountain competition, on Saturday, February 2!
To celebrate, Burton has purchased 30 ski passes to Hidden Valley to give to customers who come into Alpine Shop’s Kirkwood store and answer the following question: “What was the name of the first snowboard built by Burton?” Just go up to the front cashier and let them know you’re there for a free pass and give them the correct answer. As long as we’ve got passes left, you’re good to go! FREE PASS!
(One pass per customer, per correct answer, please!)
We will be handing out these tickets until they are gone. On Saturday, February 2 will be on location for the competition where we’ll be giving away over $500 in Burton prizes.
Modeled on the Freeride World Tour, King of the Mountain will combine technical skiing and freestyle creativity to determine the best on the mountain. The course will be on Continental Divide and competitors will be judged on five categories and given 2 runs on the course.
The event is free but helmets and waivers are mandatory.
Registration will start at 11 AM in the Lodge and the event will run
from 2PM to 4PM, with awards immediately following the conclusion at the
Lodge. We will be crowning a King of Mountain skier and snowboarder as
well as a Queen of the Mountain.
Format: 2 runs per competitor, best one counts – no time limit!
Winner just has to cross the finish line – scoring based on points
(score card to be posted)
Award Presentation: 4 PM in the Lodge
King of the Mountain Skier and Snowboarder; Queen of the Mountain
