Five months of the year, all at once
We started as a rental counter at the base of the access road and grew into the shop we are now: a sales floor up front and a full tuning bench in back, open only for the months the snow actually lets us be a ski shop.
Making a year of money in five months shapes everything. We run a preseason sale in October and November because storing a full season of inventory costs more than selling it cheap before the lifts turn, and a spring blowout in March and April because we cannot hold last year's stock through a summer we are closed for.
Seven of us work the season, three of whom are also the ones grinding bases and setting edges after close. The building becomes a warehouse the moment the lifts stop turning, and it stays that way until the first real storm brings us back.
