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Got a question about ski shops in Park City for you Utah dudes
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What is your favorite ski shop in park city? How well known is it throughout Utah and even the rest of the country? I'm just looking for some insights into what's currently there in the Park City area, I work at Slope Style in breckenridge and we've had such massive success that maybe in a couple years I myself would like to expand the Slope Style name and I know park city is somewhat similar to Breck considering the park skiing crowd there so it was an idea. We've had numerous pros from back in the day (mike nick, jf houle, etc) come through our shop and tell us how much different/unique we are than any other ski shop in the WORLD and that we're helping bring freeskiing back to what it should be and I can only see it growing..
any thoughts from the Utah crowd?
(please don't take anything I say to be pretentious, just looking for opinions)
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No real Freeski shops in town, I would be stoked to see a slope style! Think it could do really well.
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There was no TRUE free ski shop up here until last year- but Powderhuffer at PCMR is pretty legit and just moved in. Not sure how business is, but they carry great product.
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Yeah powderhuffer is gone haha their owner is a fucking idiot so they had to bail
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and to think it all started with crashing parties in the Waldorf. RIP
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Thanks for the responses guys (especially TeeeRevor). I will definitely take a loot at the shops you mentioned when I come to park city in January. Judging from a lot of the valid points you've made, It seems very similar to our breck situation currently. We are not a rental shop like Cole Sport seems to look and I do not anticipate them being "competition" in the sense that our shop is definitely considered more specialized. Jans seems very similar to a mountain outfitters shop that is just behind our store here in breck and again, I don't think they would really be considered a competition as well. We really try to carry the more freestyle oriented products (and I don't mean the brand selection, but the different products each brand carries) that most other shops within a close vicinity don't have.
We're usually very competitive with whatever online deal you can find on gear, and we definitely treat locals like we believe they should be treated. Let's face it, there's no point in even trying to be a huge salesman to locals, but more a guide to agree upon the sickest gear.
This is still only an idea and we'd have to continue seeing the same progression for a few years before that'd be a possibility, and we feel it will be but hey you never know... We definitely want to be in the green before simply opening up another store due to our popularity in our name.
Thanks again for the insights, if any of you dudes wanna shred the Canyons (yeah would rather ski PCMR but canyons is free on the epic pass...) hit me up! I will be in the area from january 5-11. Pray for snow! so far so good!
-Nyles
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yeah slopestyle in PC! you would also have success here fur sure. Dont forget to bring candy dispensers, I want to ski like downey.
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Lmao Jesus they didn't even last a fucking year.
But yeah, there's opportunity here. My dream would be a freeski shop that doubled as a freeride/downhill MTB shop in the summer/fall. Big freeride community in town (most of which also ski), and not a single shop that caters to them.
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dude they were there for three seasons
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MTB stuff has always been a thought for us. In breck it doesn't really compute as there's not lift access riding and almost every other shop in town has MTB stuff (there's need to be a more concrete trail system here to really make having specialty MTB stuff to work, here at least). Thanks for the comment, I'll keep that in mind!
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slopestyle is the most hurt pretentious shop
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