Gift Ideas for Mom

We know. You meant to grab a gift weeks ago for Mom. But if you’re still on the fence as to what to buy, the friendly outfitters from Alpine Shop and The Pathfinder have some fantastic ideas for you!

Smartwool Merino Wool Tank Top
Smartwool Merino Wool Sport 150 Tank Top $45
On Cloud Running Shoes
Patagonia Tech Skort $75
Patagonia Tech Skort $75
Birketnstock sandals
Birkentstock Gizeh Sandals $99.95
Red sun dress with pink and orange flowers
Patagonia Amber Dawn Dress $59.95
The North Face Motion Pull-On Short
goodr Circle G Sunglasses $25
Yeti Slim Can Colster $25
C.C. Panama Hat $22
Brümate hopsulator Trio

Alpine Shop Supports Give STL Day- May 6, 2021

Over the past decade, Alpine Shop has raised over $100,000 for local area organizations thanks to the generosity of our loyal customers and the help of many of our vendors. Even throughout 2020, without the benefit of being able to hold our usual fundraisers, we continued to do our best with our annual One Warm Coat Drive, where we collected more than 900 coats, and our support of the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Glennon Card this past October. But, as we’re all aware, 2020 was a very different type of year, and 2021 hasn’t been much better for us to jump start our fundraising.

Today, May 6, is Give STL Day, 24-hours of giving to organizations that do so much for the St. Louis region. Many of the organizations listed on the GiveSTLday.org website have deals in place to match the dollars raised during this day.

If you’re interested in supporting some of the wonderful organizations that we work with throughout the year, below you’ll find a list, along with links to either the Give STL Day donation links or their specific websites:

Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Foundation

Gateway Disabled Ski Program

Gateway Off-Road Cyclists

Great Rivers Greenway

Missouri River Relief

Missouri Stream Team (supported by Patagonia Action Works)

Missouri Whitewater Association

One Warm Coat

Open Space Council

Ozark Trail Association

Sierra Club

Saint Louis BicycleWorks

Stray Rescue of Saint Louis

Team River Runner – St. Louis

Trailnet

Wildlife Rescue Center

World Bird Sanctuary

Earth Day/Earth Lifetime: How Our Brands Are Making an Impact

At Alpine Shop, we actively engage in and support efforts to preserve and improve the environment on a daily basis. Many – if not most – of the brands we partner with have that same belief and are consistently making an impact each and every day. So, during this Earth Day Week, here are a few examples of how some of our vendors are leading these efforts.

Keep Nature Wild

For every product sold, Keep Nature Wild picks up one pound of trash.

Hydro Flask

Parks for All Program: Created to benefit public green spaces and promote happier, healthier lives outdoors for all. To date , more than 122 nonprofits have been supported and over $1.9 million donated

#RefillForGood campaign to encourage use of reusable

Hydro Flask Wide Mouth Flex Lid – 20 Oz Acai At

Cotopaxi

  • Climate Neutral Certified (100% carbon neutral)
  • B Corp Certified
  • Del Dia Collection products are made from 100% repurposed fabrics

Buzzee

  • Reusable food wraps to eliminate the use of single-use plastics
  • 100% compostable after life-cycle (200 uses)
  • Hand Made

Klean Kanteen

  • Stainless steel straws and bottles reduce the use of single-use plastics
  • 100% of company’s headquarters’ electricity powered by solar
  • Donates 1% of gross sales through One Percent for the Planet

Patagonia

  • Regenerative Organic Certified
  • Since 1985, Patagonia has pledged 1% of its sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment
  • Products like Responsibli-Tees (see below) made from 50% cotton scraps and 50% post-consumer recycled plastics
  • Worn Wear program to extend the life of apparel and reduce number of products going to landfills
Patagonia Boardshort Label Pocket Responsibili-Tee

Stasher

  • 1% of Sales each year give to non-profits working to protect our planet
  • Save What Matters campaign to educate consumers and reduce single-use plastics
Stasher Sandwich Bag

It’s No Joke! Alpine Shop Purchased 43 Years Ago on April 1, 1978

Every year around April Fools’ Day, we like to relate the story of how the modern Alpine Shop came to exist. It’s not really a funny joke, it’s just that it actually happened on April 1. Here’s the story of the Mapmaker, the Vintner and the Fugitive:

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

In 1973, Bob Mooers–a local St. Louis climber, Army Map Service employee, and author of “Finding Your Way in the Outdoors” (still available used on-line)–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 from his Army Map Service work. It took just one month for climbing to outsell wine-making, which ended up being abandoned when Mooers moved the climbing shop 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.

Enter Russell “Holly” Hollenbeck to the picture. A 45-year-old customer of Mooers’ originally from the Northwest, Hollenbeck had come to St. Louis to work in the city’s banking and finance industry. However, a change in leadership at the company he worked for had soured him on the field, and he had taken to considering 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.

43 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.

Those 43 years have been good to us and to our vendors, as well. Recently, at the 2019 Grassroots Outdoor Alliance summer meetings, Alpine Shop was named National Retailer of the Year, an honor we are truly humbled by and continue to strive to earn in the eyes of our customers.

Our first supplier, Chouinard Equipment, ended up morphing into Great Pacific Iron Works, which went on to become Black Diamond and Patagonia. They remain our largest and one of our most admired vendor partners.

After 49 years in the business, it is Alpine Shop’s Vision to see Generations Transformed by Discovery Outdoors.

7th Annual Egg Hunt Challenge

Are you one of those people who still enjoy participating in Egg Hunts around the Easter holiday? Or do you like to test your “detective” skills and solve some riddles? How about trying your hand at both?!?!

Alpine Shop invites you to participate in our Seventh Annual Egg Hunt Challenge on-line at www.alpineshop.com! Yes, you’re still looking for eggs – in this case one very lovely golden egg worth $200 in an Alpine Shop gift card – but your hunt involves solving riddles related to five different products on our website. Find the products and find your next clue! Solve all five clues and you’ll be entered into the drawing to win the $200 gift card.

We’ll randomly draw a winner from the names of everyone who finds the golden egg between now and Monday, April 5. Get hunting!

Oh! And everyone who participates get a mystery coupon code, too! So… to recap: Solve the clues. Find the product on alpineshop.com. Get entered to win. Shop with a coupon code. Good? Alright here we go…

Here’s your first clue:

So what do you think this could be? The only hint you’ll get from us is that it’s at alpineshop.com!

So, you’re looking for a product on www.alpineshop.com that matches the description of the clue. You’ll know you’ve found it when you arrive on a product page and see, below the main product photo – instead of an alternate-color image – a clue, like in the photo below:

See that first alternate color image that looks like the first clue… that’s what you’re searching for, right there!

Solve all five clues and you’re in the running for that $200 gift card to Alpine Shop!

Ready to begin the challenge? It starts right here.

Shopping Safe

From the moment we reopened our stores earlier this year, Alpine Shop and The Pathfinder have been concerned with only one thing: making sure you are safe when you shop with us.

To that end, we have continually offered as many options as possible for you to safely get what you need from our stores – including curbside pick-up, buy online, pick-up in store, 24-hour online shopping at www.alpineshop.com and enhanced sanitization and disinfection protocols at all of our locations.

Stores open at this time:

All Alpine Shop locations are open, although many have shorter operating hours than you might have been used to in the past. Please visit our locations page to verify hours before heading out to see us.

Health and Safety Policies:

The health of our staff and our loyal customers is always our biggest concern. Over the spring and summer months, our management team developed specific sanitization protocols that are now in effect at all stores.

Each location is deep-cleaned every morning before we open, and staff rotate different cleaning procedures throughout the day.

Dressing Rooms:

Dressing rooms are available as needed, but are only accessible with the help of an outfitter. After each use, our staff will disinfect and sanitize the dressing room before allowing anyone else to enter.

Masks:

In accordance with CDC guidelines and with local city mandates, outfitters are required to wear masks at all times when inside our stores.

Customers are also required to wear masks in all stores, as well.

If, for some reason, you are unable to wear a mask, we will still do everything we can to make sure you can get the assistance you need. Before entering the store, please call and ask a manager for assistance. We will be happy to help.

Number of people allowed in our stores:

All locations are operating at far below the max occupancy levels mandated by local government authorities. In fact, all stores are operating at fewer than 15% of max capacity throughout the holidays, with staff on hand monitoring total number of customers inside the store.

Returns:

We are currently allowing and accepting returns inside our stores according to our normal return guidelines.

Curbside Pick-Up/Buy On-line, Pick Up in Store:

Curbside Pick-Up as well as Buy On-Line, Pick-Up in Store are both available at all Alpine Shop and Pathfinder locations. However, there are some limitations. All on-line purchases are handled from our Kirkwood location and may take extended time to reach another store.

If you would like to use curbside pick-up, we would encourage you to please call your preferred store and tell the outfitter you would like to arrange for Curbside Pick-up. They will take your order over the phone and make sure we have everything ready for you to pick-up at your convenience.

Give Back on Giving Tuesday

Over the past decade, Alpine Shop has raised over $100,000 for local area organizations thanks to the generosity of our loyal customers and the help of many of our vendors. Even through 2020, without the benefit of being able to hold our usual fundraisers, we’ve continued to do our best with our annual One Warm Coat Drive, where we collected more than 900 coats, and our support of the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Foundation’s Glennon Card this past October.

But, as we’re all aware, 2020 has been a very different type of year. And a very difficult year for many non-profits in our communities.

This Giving Tuesday, we ask for you to consider supporting some of the organizations we have worked with over the past decade.

There are a number of options to consider, including our partnership with Patagonia Action Works, which is Patagonia’s effort to connect committed individuals to organizations working on environmental issues in the same community.

If you’re interested in supporting some of the other wonderful organizations that we work with throughout the year, below you’ll find a list, along with links to their websites.

Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital Foundation

Disabled Athelete Sports Association (DASA)

Gateway Disabled Ski Program

Gateway Off-Road Cyclists

Great Rivers Greenway

Missouri River Relief

Missouri Stream Team (supported by Patagonia Action Works)

Missouri Whitewater Association

One Warm Coat

Open Space Council

Ozark Trail Association

Sierra Club

Saint Louis BicycleWorks

Stray Rescue of Saint Louis

Team River Runner – St. Louis

Trailnet

Wildlife Rescue Center

World Bird Sanctuary

Holiday Availability, Delivery & Concierge Information

Alpine Shop Kirkwood

As we head closer to Thanksgiving, our home town of St. Louis has reinstated a Stay at Home Order to combat the COVID-19 virus. While all of our stores remain open, it is a reminder of just how unpredictable everything has become.

Earlier this year, our area parks, waterways and roadways suddenly saw huge increases in hikers, paddlers and cyclists as the country shut down the first time. As we were able to finally re-open our stores, our inventory of boats and bikes quickly disappeared. Unfortunately, many of the manufacturers of those products were also shut down for months at a time, meaning both our current and future inventory is limited.

So, here’s where we stand right now…

We have a seen a slow trickle of boats and bikes into our warehouse over the past month, but nowhere near what we would like to have on hand. If you’re considering giving or getting a bike or boat this holiday season, please act quickly and understand that our current inventory can change at any time.

The snow industry (featured in our Kirkwood location) has (thankfully) delivered much of what we ordered, but if demand remains as high as the last month would indicate, we will once again experience inventory issues in skis and snowboards before Christmas, as well.

Basically, this is just a long way of saying we recommend you grab the gear you’re looking for this holiday season at your earliest convenience.

So, here are some options for you:

  • If you’re shopping on-line, please plan ahead to avoid any unnecessary shipping costs or delays.
  • If you’re interested in scheduling concierge services with a single member of our staff at any of our stores, please sign up for our Personal Shopping Appointment using the form below. We can hand-pick items we think will work best for you and have them prepared for you as you walk into the store.
  • You can also make a reservation for ski or snowboard boot fittings. These reservations mean you won’t have to wait any longer than necessary to get the gear you need. (Plan on around 90 minutes for a complete boot fit for skis. Snowboard boots don’t normally take quite as long.)
  • We are also still offering curbside pickup throughout the holidays if you feel safer staying in your vehicle.

Everyone at Alpine Shop and The Pathfinder is doing everything we can to help you Get Outside Yourself this winter. We hope to welcome you into one of our stores over the next couple of months, or on-line 24 hours a day at alpineshop.com.

The Alpine Shop Staff

We Honor Our Veterans – Today and Every Day

On this Veterans Day, we honor the brave men and women who have risked their lives to protect our freedoms.

As a retailer owned by a veteran, Alpine Shop is keenly aware of the significance of November 11. We’re also aware that the sacrifices that these men and women have given so that we may have our freedoms deserve to be honored every day, not just once a year. To those of you who have served, we say “Thank You.” Thank you for your service and thank you for continuing to serve your country. 

On this day, and every day throughout the year, we invite all military personnel – current & retired – to take 10% off their purchase* inside our stores.

Our sincere thanks for your selfless service.

*Please note, this discount is not currently available on-line at www.alpineshop.com. Proof of service such as a military ID is required, however we will allow dressing in uniform as a form of identification. Discharge papers, VA cards and veteran organization membership cards also can be used to prove your service.

Friends & Family Weekend Is November 13-15

It’s that Time of Year Again: Friends & Family Time!

This up-coming weekend, we invite you back into our stores and on to the pages of our website for our Winter Friends & Family Weekend at all Alpine Shop locations, at our Manhattan, Kansas, store—The Pathfinder–and on-line at www.alpineshop.com!

You read that correctly – take 20% off the full, retail price on almost everything in our stores including all apparel, outerwear and footwear. We’re even offering the same deal throughout our camping department, as well. So, tents and sleeping bags? Yep! Looking for some new goggles? Those, too! Bike gloves? You get the picture. Certain exclusions apply. See below.**

Yes, you also read that correctly… You can save 10% off the retail price on nearly every bike or boat, ski or snowboard, and snowsport boots!

We invite you to share this event with your own friends and family! The more, the merrier!

Can’t, or don’t want, to make it to the store? Shop on-line at alpineshop.com using the discount code: AlpineFamily

START SHOPPING HERE!

**Note: 2020 Winter Friends & Family Weekend offers valid November 13-15, 2020 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 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.