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where to buy your gear... + any advice on Breckenridge welcome :-)
 Poster: A snowHead
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OK then folks, what's everyone's experience about the best places to buy gear? Is it in the comfort of old Blighty, be it snow & rock, Ellis Brigham, inderpendents..OR in resort? Advice of places, shops salespeople would be nice.
- In Particular i need new boots, anyone know if equipment in Breck is as good on price than that of the UK shops? all i can find on line suggests more expensive in resort (- not looking to buy boots online but trying to gauge prices in resorts from resort shops that have webpages.)....Advice, comments and horror stories welcome. Smile
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

US shops start sales pretty much on Boxing day & prices drop from there as the season goes on - I've seen 50% off by the end of the season but obviously choice will be a bit more limited. Pretty much no store charges ful MRP but boots being predominantly from Euro manufacturers are not always the greatest bargains in the US. Try Gart Sports for a general view of bottom end prices (there a US sportssupermarket with a branch in Dillon not far from Breck)

But the best advice is probably not where you get the cheapest deal but getting a good bootfitter. You're unlikely to get that in a US supermarket & some would say slush+rubble is a bit hit and miss for a supposedly specialist retailer.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

If it's boots you're after and you want the best advice and you're going to Breckenridge then go to Jeff Bergeron. He's in Breck and is the most knowledgeable person I've ever come accross. You can find him at bootcast. He's got a long running thread on www.epicski.com I'm going there in 2007 just to go and see him. Ithink you'll find him very helpful. His thread is under equipment reviews and is headed "expert boot advice by Jeff Bergeron".

Hope this helps.
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stevos999 wrote:
the best places to buy gear?


Buy? Bay, splutter. You mean you actually pay for ski gear you don't just dig last year''s planks out of the skip on the way into resort?

If you are off to l'alpe d'Huez the skip is inconveniently a few hairpins down from the village - always a wide range of yesterday's ski fads, you know things like Pocket Rockets, the flared trousers of the ski world.
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