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2019 Schlafly Al-Pint Nights Continue Tuesday, June 4 for Gateway Off-Road Cyclists

Alpine Shop, STANLEY, and Schlafly invite you back to Alpine Shop’s Kirkwood location on Tuesday, June 4 for the latest edition of the 2019 Schalfly Al-Pint Night Series. This event will be benefiting the Gateway Off-Road Cyclists, an organization dedicated to advocacy, design, construction and maintenance of multi-use trails. Truly, if you’ve used almost any trail in the St. Louis area, you have probably benefited from the work that GORC does on an annual basis.

The 2019 Full-YEAR Schlafly Al-Pint Night 24 oz Adventure Steins.

As we’ve done all year, we will have limited 24-ounce FULL-YEAR Al-Pint Adventure Steins for sale. When you purchase an Al-Pint Adventure Stein (in black or red), you earn the right to participate in any of the five remaining 2019 Schlafly Al-Pint Nights at no additional charge. 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 on this night 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 GORC! The Tuesday, June 4, Schlafly Al-Pint Night will go from 6-8:30 pm at Alpine Shop’s Kirkwood location.

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Master the MR340

So you signed up for longest contiguous paddle race in the country – the MR340 – now what do you do? The experts at Alpine Shop are here to help! 

A significant number of Alpine Shop employees have participated in the MR340, and many have done the race multiple times. Together, they’re helping to bring their knowledge to you as part of our MR340 Introduction Clinics going on this spring and summer.

Your head instructor for these classes is an 11-time competitor, and has earned three trophies from the race that he won’t stop bragging about.  

There will be three MR340 clinics.

Clinic #1 – May 7th – 6:30pm : Intro to MR340 Q&A – Location : Alpine Shop – Kirkwood MO

We’ll review charts, navigation, support teams, best practices, horror stories, and gear.  Bring your questions!

Clinic #2 – May 26th – 3pm : Forward Strokes – Location: Simpson Lake

 Let’s be blunt, just about anyone can get into a kayak and figure out that paddling on the right turns the boat left, paddling on the left makes the boat go right, and paddling on both sides SOMETIMES makes the boat go straight. It often takes YEARS to develop an efficient forward stroke, but we’ll try to speed up the process.  It takes about 250,000 paddles strokes to get to St Charles from KC, try to imagine how just a small improvement in efficiency can help you out. 

Clinic #3 – June 25th – 6:30pm : Safety & Rescue – Location: Simpson Lake

If you tip your kayak on most rivers in Missouri, you can just stand up and walk to shore. That’s not the case on the Mighty MO! Every year, a few MR340 racers end up in the river. Attend this class to learn how to rescue yourself and others in a safe, controlled setting so you’ll be more prepared when there’s a problem during the race (when you’re fatigued and disoriented).

Each class lasts approximately 90 minutes and is $10.

Interested in registering? Sign up today here!

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BACKPACKER Magazine’s Get Out More Tour Returns to St. Louis

Calling all outdoor enthusiasts! The renowned outdoor adventure road show, the Get Out More Tour is coming to your area!

BACKPACKER Magazine, the authority on outdoor adventure, is proud to present the 19th annual Get Out More Tour! BACKPACKER Magazine’s ambassador, Randy Propster, is an expert in the outdoor industry. He spends over 200 days out of the year on the road, pursuing his passions—hiking, backpacking, camping, and outdoor adventure of all kinds!

Randy and the Get Out More Tour will visit Alpine Shop on June 6th, 2019 at 6:30PM. Randy’s expertise, knowledge, and tips + tricks inspire experienced and novice outdoor enthusiasts across the country to get out more. Plus, each event will include a killer outdoor gear giveaway!

The interactive 90-minute seminar will educate and inspire participants while covering a wide range of topics including:
• Backpacking essentials
• The latest in gear and apparel
• Living a van life
• Survival skills
• Trail-tested tips

Join us at a FREE Get Out More Tour event for the opportunity to meet Randy and the chance to win top-notch outdoor gear from the Tour’s incredible sponsors!

Registration is not necessary, but seating is done on a first-come, first-served basis.

The 2019 Get Out More Tour is presented by Adventure Medical Kit, Backpacker’s Pantry, Fjallraven, Hydrapak, LEKI, MSR, Osprey, Republic of Durable Goods, Salomon, Sawyer Products, Nemo and BioLite.

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Award Season: Alpine Shop Nominated for St. Louis’ A-List

Alpine Shop has been honored to win St. Louis Magazine’s A-List Award numerous times over the past 10 years. For 2019, we’ve been nominated in three different categories: Activewear, Bike Store and Outdoor/Camping Store. While we’ve won an A-List before, this is the first time we’ve been nominated in multiple categories!

At Alpine Shop, we believe that simply exploring the wild places that surround us transforms our lives for the better.

That belief formed our vision as a company: “Generations Transformed by Discovery Outdoors.” Those five words have driven Alpine Shop to dedicate itself over the past 45 years to the idea that getting people outside brings about positive physical, emotional and spiritual changes in them. And we like to think we’re doing a pretty good job of it.

If you’re one of the hundreds who have helped us clean up our area rivers and parks, or worked with us to build new trails throughout our region, you’ve experienced it firsthand.

If you’re one of the 17,000+ people who have participated in one of our clinics, competitions, events, or instructional classes over the past five years, or if you’re one of the millions we’ve outfitted for your own adventures in that same time, we hope you would agree, as well.

On-line voting ends this Friday, April 19 and is free for anyone to participate. If we’ve made your A-List, we’d appreciate it if you would let the rest of St. Louis know this as well! We’re told that voting is extremely close this year across almost all categories. We’d love to have your vote.

If, for some reason, you think we haven’t earned your vote, we’d really like to know that, as well, and anything we could do to make things better. Please let us know by sending an email to customercare (at) alpineshop.com. Thank you!

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Award Season: Alpine Shop Up for Outdoor Retailer of the Year

Alpine Shop is honored to be among four nominees for the 2019 Grassroots Outdoor Alliance Retailer of the Year award, to be presented at the national organization’s show in Knoxville, Tenn., on June 8, 2019.

Grassroots Outdoor Alliance is an active network of 70 independent retailers across the nation working together for the health and growth of specialty outdoor retail. Alpine Shop has been a member of the organization since 2002.

You can find out more about all the stores up for awards here in this write-up from SNEWS.

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Chaco Turns 30! Birthday Celebrations in April

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!

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Friends & Family Celebration Is April 12

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.

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2019 Schlafly Al-Pint Night Adventure Steins Available April 11

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 Schlafly Al-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 YEAR Al-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.

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More than 400 Runners Celebrate Spring at The North Face Shaw Bloom Trail 10k/20k

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.

RESULTS:
10k Overall | 10k Age Group | 20k Overall | 20k Age Group

| 10k Age Group | 20k Overall | 20k Age Group

PHOTOS:
By Dan Singer Photography

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Deuter Has Taken Over Our Backpack Department

From March 1 to March 31, 2019, the backpacking department at our Kirkwood location has been “Taken Over” by one of the top brands in the business: Deuter.

Known for many years because of their best-selling kid carrier packs, Deuter has now established themselves as one of the top backpacking manufacturers we sell, providing comfort, durability and value at a great price.

If you’re in the market for a backpack – whether for day hikes at Castlewood, thru-hiking the Ozark Trail or for a trip like the Camino de Santiago – be sure to try on a couple of Deuter’s packs and see which one fits you best.

And if you purchase any Deuter backpack between March 1–31, 2019, you’ll also receive a Deuter Streamer Hydration 3L Reservoir – a $34 value – for FREE. This reservoir allows you to keep your hands free and stop worrying about carrying a water bottle. With the Streamer tucked safely in your backpack, you’ll be able to just grab the bite valve on your pack strap and drink to your heart’s content!

Start shopping for a Deuter Backpack here.

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