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Gear Coop Blog
4y ago
To our Valued Customer,
We are concerned for the health and well-being of our customers, their families, and every individual within our community. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the world, we have carefully decided to temporarily close our retail location as well as our outlet location, as of this morning Monday, March 16th, 2020.
We will continue to follow the guidelines set forth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as well as our local health authorities and encourage our community to do the same in order to help stop the spread of this virus.
We appr ..read more
Gear Coop Blog
4y ago
To our Gear Coop Community:
Gear Coop’s thoughts go out to those affected by the Coronavirus. It is times like these that reminds us how we are connected like never before. With that in mind, I want to share what we are doing as a company.
Protecting our employees, customers and vendors is our top priority. Out of an abundance of caution we are cancelling our next few events, including our Beer & Bouldering on Thursday, March 19th as well as the March GCO Warehouse Sale on Saturday, March 21-22nd.
I have enhanced office and retail protocols for the healthiest work and shopping env ..read more
Gear Coop Blog
4y ago
As far as trustworthy gear reviews go, climbing guides may very well have the first and last words. Unlike weekend warriors or even seasoned hobbyists, guides are solely in the business of one thing: consistent performance. Their gear must last all day, every day, with no exceptions. With that in mind, we sat down with two of our favorite local guides, Gavin Bridgman and Dan Sherman, to discuss must-have climbing gifts, family time, and the magic of ugly sweater climbing.
Gavin Bridgman
As a Southern California native and experienced adventure guide, Gavin has grown used to blazing his o ..read more
Gear Coop Blog
4y ago
Our September Beer & Bouldering featuring Sterling Rope was filled with all the climbing goodness you would expect from us, including: a climbing athlete and rope engineer, film screening, swag, raffles, learning opportunities, beer, bouldering, and (most importantly) YOU the locals.
With about 30 guests in our shop, the room was buzzing with conversation on climbing. Our special guest, Jim Ewing, conducted a clinic on the engineering and technology behind Sterling’s climbing ropes. “I’m pretty new to climbing,” said Katie, one of the attendees, “I was really impressed by the presentati ..read more