Your eco friendly ski shop

Everyone is talking about going green these days - and if'it's not going green in an eco-friendly kind of way it's holding on to more of your green, hard earned dollars! 

It can be hard to wade through all the conflicting information about what is and is not environmentally friendly.  It uses less fossil fuels to shop closer to home, but maybe a restaurant that is a little further away uses locally grown and rasied ingredients.  You can buy clothing made from bamboo, thinking you are having less impact on the environment by using a more renewable resource and then find out that the processing of the bamboo is just as bad as making polyester! (see the Wall Street Journal article from Nov. 20)

Here at Larson's we have been doing things that are good for the environment for years....we just thought we were being frugal!  We turn off lights at night and in the basement when no one is down there and we reuse everything we can - from cardboard boxes to file folders in the office to buckles off of otherwise broken ski boots.   Almost all of our employees live within 5 miles of the shop and serveral of them regularly travel to or from work via motorcycle or bicycle. 

Even in our repair shop we try to be effecient about how we use resources.  Our belt waxer that we use for hot waxing skis and snowboards wastes less wax and emits less wax vapor into the air than hot waxing with an iron and our Polyjet machine uses less polyehtelene for repairing ski and snowboard bases than using p-tex candles.

Our retail store is stocked with quality items that will keep you warm in the snow for years to come, so you don't have to replace them as often.  Wool socks from Point6 and wool base layer pieces from I/O Bio are both examples of items that come from a renewable source and will give you years of service in cold weather!  And our ski swaps are a great way to save money and reduce your impact on the environment by passing on gear that your kid's have grown out of to other people who can use it.

We don't claim to be making ski boots out of recycled newspaper or growing our employee lunches out back - but we do try to act responsibly and save money anywhere we can so the savings can be passed on to you!