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Show October 1995 Ski Swaps: the best bar reain in ski equipment ‘a | Milosport yy Marta Heifbrun Sy SOpGara: Swap 3119 E 3300 So 487-8600 Saturday, October 14 9am-7pm & Sunday, October 15 9am-Spm. Saturday morning check-in $1 /item 20% commission Noenttanceice = Snowbird Ski Swap Snowbird Center, level 2. 521-6404 x4080 Friday October 20 |2-9pm, Saturday, October 21 9am-6pm & Sunday, October 22 Jam-Spm Friday 9am check in / Pickup Sunday $1/item 20% commission to benefit Snowbird Ski Team _ $1/person entrance fee, children under 12 free Park City Swap Treasure Mountain Middle School Rte. 248 in Park City (801) 649-8749 Friday, November3 !Opm-lam $5/person entrance fee - under | 2 free Saturday, November 4 10am-Spm $2/person Sunday, November 5 |0am-2pm $2/person Friday 5-9pm check in / Pickup Sunday 3-Spm $.1/item 25% commission to benefit Park City Ski Team Row mark Swap Rowland Hall 843 So. Lincoln of the Utah Avalanche Forecast Genter - Backcountry/ Cross-country Ski Swap | REI 3300 So 4285 E Thursday, November 2 Spm-8pm, Friday, November 3 5-8pm & Saturday, November 4 beginning at 8am _ $4/ person entrance fee Saget Ski Conditionin With Kathleen Leopardi, A.C.§ ©9 C.S.C.S. meres IS THE TIME TO START GETTING THOSE SKI LEGS BACK!!: in Sugarhouse park at 5:30pm Tuesdays (North aD. the lake) © starting to change, the temperature is dropping, and it has even snowed in the mountains. This can mean only one thing: it is time to. get ready for skiing again. considering buying something, be a smart shopper, FOOTHILL sce — \F PERSONAL 2350 why it costs more on the first day of some of the sales. when preparing for the new season is the status of your equipment. Have you had those boards for four years? TRAINING S. Foothole Dr. _CALL NOW TO REGISTER _ Se PERSONAL TRAINING PERSUNAL TRAINING Jaking filness. lo 2 holes new: levsel ‘Kaheing, paries lo & whole neus feted. Page 13 If you are check it out, make sure it is in good enough condition for the price. There are definitely some dogs out there, in addition to the truly great deals. The last day, in the evening, is the time to either pick up your unsold gear, or, if things went well, pick up your money, minus a commission the organizer keeps. Have you always hated those boots? Have you just into some money and is time to get a whole ski package? If what Usually prices are very reasonable. One of the primary concerns come feel itnew you ‘want is to dump your old stuff, and you are not Ron. ‘Park City and Snowbird run two of the biggest, the Penner and Jim Hopkins who like to machine gun their equipment when it has outgrown it’s usefulness, then the ski swaps are calling your name. In the same vein, if you are new to the Rowmark swap at Rowland - Hall-St. Mark’s School is - definitely one of the best in the valley; and Milo Sport has the only snowboard — swap. While ski Swaps are an - Opportunity, they are not for erous parents, or don’t have $1000 to spend on a new _ set-up, ski swaps are also the place for you to head. If snowboards are what you are the timid. Our own publisher and good friend John Bresee was so traumatized by a ski swap experience in interested in, and you can’t his youth, he farmed this seem to find the perfect one article out to me, even though he knows I can never get anything in on time. It seems once when he was a at a ski swap, there are even board swaps. These swaps are sponsored by ski teams, resorts and retail stores. They are about the only place you can find true deals on equipment if you have no access to proforms. The swaps offer both used and new equipment, _ clothing etc. There are often many gags and gimmicks, and even free stuff to lure you into the events. Last — wee lad, he combed a swap until he found the very boots . he had always dreamed: about. As he sat there coveting and caressing them, while he waited for his parents, a giant woman in a flu- orescent sweat suit and curlers snatched them from in front of his face and bought them before John year Milo Sport had a raffle could even exclaim, “I’ve where they gave away everything from t-shirts to a ‘snowboard. My boyfriend said he would give me the been robbed!” My own memories are only of the tedium and drudgery, but that might be just because every year my father found only got some boots, so I at They say the best items/deals go fast, that is board if he won it, but he Thursdays ‘ping. area, don’t have the connec- ~ tions, don’t have overly gen- Friday October 27, Ipm-1 | pm $5/person $7/family scm RED GadGrd2 sree Sui, October 28 10am- -6pm $3/person $4/family child, etc ~ Check in Thursday 4-8pm & Friday 9am-4pm / Pickup Sunday 9am-2pm - $1/item 20% commission to benefit Rowmark Ski Team _ Friends Ah fall. the leaves are ~was SOL. Oh well, it was better that than be indebted to him. It is not difficult to become involved in swaps. The first day is usually for registering and dropping off © the things you want to sell. Then for the duration your gear is displayed for sale. This is the time for shop- at least forty skis and thirty boots that had to be lugged back and forth in the hopes that even one pair might sell. I think we must have finally gotten rid of it all, or maybe it is that neither my I are on because quented Good hunting! sister or a ski team anymore, we haven’t frethe swaps in years. © luck and happy ae | ! YT tami | |
