New Gear Store Directory

“I'm trying to put together a listing of reputable local outfitters. You can see the current list at http://www.thebackpacker.com/gear

So check the list and see if your local haunt is on the list. If not, just give me the info and I will add it.”

“Wildware Outfitters in PA is incorrect.

The correct address is 5103 Carlisle Pike.

They also have a sister location here (which you have listed - but no website URL): http://www.wildwarebackcountry.com/ (contact info on site)

And thanks!
last edited: 3/21/06 12:20:14 PM”

“PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
Broad Street Market
2442 Broad Avenue
Timonium, MD
Locator services provided by Know-Where Systems

MAILING ADDRESS:
Broad Street Market, 2442 Broad Avenue, Timonium, MD 21093

TELEPHONE:
410.561.0142

EMS moved from the Towson Town Center Mall a couple of years ago to the above address.”

“Under the Alabama listings, you have:
Buckman's, Inc.
740 W. DeKalb Pike, Route 202
King of Prussia, Al 19406
(610) 265-3330

listed twice,


and you also left out:
Spoke N Trail Inc
4453 Old Shell Road, Mobile, AL 36608
(251) 341-1712
last edited: 3/21/06 12:26:20 PM”

“http://www.seneca-rocks.com/website/article.asp?id=14

The Gendarme Shop in Seneca Rocks, West Virginia is within about twenty miles of Dolly Sods Wilderness/Roaring Plains and Otter Creek Wilderness in the heart of the Monongehela National Forest wild country.

They are mostly a climbing shop and have some backpacking gear as well.”

“I found these mistakes for New York:
Eastern Mountain Sports
Crossgates Mall, 1 Crossgates Mall Road C102
Albany, NY 12203
(518) 452-9440
http://www.ems.com
This store moved to Stuyvesant Plaza, which is already listed.

You have The Mountaineer listed twice. It’s located in Keene Valley.

One of my local haunts that wasn’t listed is:
Saratoga Army & Navy
516 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
www.saratogaarmynavy.com
last edited: 3/21/06 12:36:19 PM”

“Adventure Sports
333 N I 10 Service Rd E
Metairie, LA 70005-3110
(504) 835-1932

...was the best true gear shop in New Orleans.
They carried Western Mountaineering bags.
I think Katrina wiped them out. There phone number no longer works.”

“Boy, you can see who has time to kill today........the usual suspects!!

We were on this thing like liberals on Sarge!!

>8^]”

“For Indiana, you have listed several Galyans Trading Post locations. Galyans was a great source for outdoor gear, but was purchased by Dicks Sporting Goods a few years ago.
DICKS SUCKS! I would sugest removing those locations from the list. Besides that, some of those locations listed have now closed, and there are several other locations in the area which are not listed. It would be a waste of your time to list them. Their backpacking selection isn't much better than the K-Mart.

I have been to Rusted Moon and they are very knowledgable.

You may wish to add J.L. Waters in Bloomington Indiana. They are now my favorite Indiana outfitter. http://www.jlwaters.com/”

“DICKS SUCKS!

LOL
I have to agree, but I guess they are better than nothing. The Galyans in Birmingham, AL WAS great. Now that they are DICKS, they do suck.”

“Matt in Pennsylvania Alice's Wonderland now has a website that you could add to the listing.
http://www.aliceswonderland.com

Also an outfitter you could add for Pennsylvania is:

Northeast Sports, Ltd.
107 Eighth St Honesdale, Pa 18431
Phone: 570 253-1145 Fax: 570 253-4368
http://www.nesportsltd.com/”

“One of my favorites, check their sale items;

Backcountry Gear.com

By phone: 1-800-953-5499 (Within the US)
1-541-485-4007
By email: bcgeartech@backcountrygear.com
By FAX: (541) 683-1609
By mail: Backcountry Gear Limited
1855 West 2nd Ave.
Eugene, OR 97402”

“The EMS in Grand Rapids MI. (Kentwood)
is either already closed or will be in the near future......I think they actually are closing all their MI stores!

Also as ,the goat, has already mentioned...all the Galyans stores are now DICKS... and yes they DO suck!”

“I believe you missed two newish REI's in the DC area:

Rockville
1701 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852
(301) 230-7670

Fairfax
11950 Grand Commons Ave
Fairfax, VA 22030
(571) 522-6568”

“I don't see Hudson Trail Outfitters?

http://www.hudsontrail.com/index.php

Store Locations:

http://www.hudsontrail.com/storelocations.php
last edited: 3/21/06 1:28:25 PM”

“Hey.....yeah, let's not forget Hudson Trail Outfitters.

There is one on York Road in Towson just a short walk from Trader Joe's!”

“What a great idea, Matt!!


Here's a good addition for Indiana:

Adventure Outdoors
1603 Roosevelt Road
Valparaiso, IN 46383
(219) 464-4555


And here's a link to lots of other Indiana retailers, although I haven't visited any of them. http://www.indianaoutfitters.com/gear_sellers.htm”

“addition for Virginia:

Weasel Creek Outfitters Inc.
221 E. Main St.
Front Royal VA 22630
(540)622-6909 Fax: (540)635-8387
Brandon B. McCrary”

“River Sports Outfitters
73 White Bridge Rd., Paddock Place
Nashville, TN 37205

they went out of business :(”

“btw email for Weasel Creek is weaselcreek@earthlink.net”

“We were on this thing like liberals on Sarge!! - MarkO

I guess somehow that was me making this thread about me. Everything is about me, right MarkO?”

“link for BRMS is wrong - should be http://www.brms.com/

Also address is slightly wrong for C'ville BRMS - should be:
1125 Emmet Street
Charlottesville, VA 22903
434-977-4400
N 38° 03.141 W 78° 30.080
last edited: 3/21/06 2:05:47 PM”

“Here is another Indiana outfitter...

Fetla's Trading Post
1457 S. State Rd. #2
Valparaiso, IN 46385

Phone: (219)462-5221
Phone: (219)462-3291
Fax: (219)464-1854
Email: fetla@verizon.net”

“I had no idea that Valpo was such an outdoors hotspot to support all those outfitters..”

“Wilderness Exchange in Berkeley, CA. Almost right across the street from REI at...

1407 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94706
Phone: (510) 525-1255
Fax: (510) 528-1789

Web site: http://wildernessexchange.citysearch.com/

Great place, great staff. Yes, as the name implies, they have some used stuff, but mostly new stuff like any other store. More gear oriented than REI. Good selection of backpacking food. Skiing and mountaineering stuff too.”

“Earth Traverse and River Sports Outfitters are across the street from each other in Knoxville.
last edited: 3/21/06 2:11:47 PM”

“EMS is indeed closed in MI although the store manager from the GR location is supposed to be opening his own shop. I'll send a link when I have it.


Nice to see my feelings about Dick's being echoed: they SUCK! Their piis-poor attitude towards me as a customer resulted in my losing my cool, dropping my Dick's card on the floor along with an F-bomb or two, and walking out. I have not shopped there since.”

““I had no idea that Valpo was such an outdoors hotspot to support all those outfitters..”
the goat
2:06:53 PM
3/21/06

HA HA! Actually, these guys are more fishing, canoing and yaking, rathar than hiking.”

“I've heard TTers talk about going to Dick's before to pick stuff up and couldn't believe it. Dick's does suck. One of the worst in customer service. (well, they don't have any)”

“Galyan's got bought out by Dicks, but they carry pretty much the same thing, not as good as Galyan's but better than Dicks in other states.

Dick's Sporting Goods
6111 Sawmill Road
Dublin, OH 43017
(614) 798-1111
http://www.galyans.com (not anymore)

And

3700 Easton Market
Columbus, OH 43219 614-414-0200

You need to add...

The Outdoor Source
http://www.outdoorsource.biz/
3121 Kingsdale Center
Columbus, OH 43221
614 457 3620

and

Sabo's Camping
http://www.saboscamping.com/
755 Chambers Road
Columbus, OH 43212
Phone: 614-421-7250
1-800-673-CAMP (2267)

Thanks Matt!”

“OOOOOODub! I have not forgot you. I got your e-mail and will reply tomorrow.”

“Well done Matt and thanks!!”

“A couple of corrections for Nebraska.

Backwoods moved to 305 N 78th St, Omaha, NE 68114 (402) 345-0303.

We now have a Scheel's in Omaha, at 17202 Davenport St., Omaha, NE 68118 (402) 289-5666.

And don't forget Cabela's two stores at 115 Cabela Drive, Sidney, NE 69160 (308) 254-7889, and 3600 Highway 30 E, Kearney, NE 68847 (308) 234-3933. www.Cabelas.com

Can you put stars by real, locally owned stores with knowledgeable staff? Or a rating system of some kind? I would vote for Canfield's here.”

“Great idea Matt!

Here are some corrections for Michigan:

Benchmark closed down a few years ago (too bad, they were great).

Galyans is Dicks, as in other states.

EMS is out of business now and if not closed already will be soon. =(”

“Hey Matt, there are a lot of Gander Mt stores throughout MI and the rest of the Midwest. Not the best gear or best selection, but they do deserve mentioning.

http://www.gandermountain.com/storelocator/”

“PA too - the one in Harrisburg is pretty big. A good store to find discounts from time to time. Not the most knowledgeable staff, but if you know what you want, they have a pretty big selection.”

“"I guess somehow that was me making this thread about me. Everything is about me, right MarkO?”
Sarge
1:59:57 PM
3/21/06

No, its about being silly.

Peace....

".....dropping my Dick's card on the floor along with an F-bomb or two, and walking out. I have not shopped there since.”
Nonconformist
3:22:12 PM
3/21/06

I had no idea you were such a wildman!!
OK!!”

“Ha ha! Wildman? Not really......I just didn't take kindly to the way I was treated and I let the smarta$$ punk manager know that. Too bad for them because I toured the store regularly. They don’t carry the same variety or quality of gear that Galyan’s did (they do have some nice stuff) but they always had good clearance sales.”

“Ha ha!!

Something like if Walmart bought REI???

YIKES!!”

“Oooooo, I really like Omahiker's suggestion to rate the stores somehow. Perhaps it could be a user rating systme where it tallies x-amount of stars and also shows the number of votes. Presumably voters would be registered TT users???

When I travel outside my area (which is every single bp trip), I would love to print off the list of gear stores near or on the way to my destination.”

“Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

I just checked out the Illinois listings. Same thing there regarding Galyans and EMS. But I have a question. Marshall Field's is a gear store? Maybe if you wear Kate Spade in the wilderness. (Oh, don't tempt me)”

“Binghamton:

http://www.eurekacampingctr.com/

Cortland (half an outfitter each but they're right around the corner from each other and you can survive on the combination):

http://www.surplusjoes.com/

and

Nordic Sports, Inc.
45 Main Street
Cortland, New York 13045

Contact: Al Saracene
Phone: (607) 753-9553”

“There is an excellent store just off 431 in Carmel, IN called "The Extreme Outfitters." The store itself isn't real large, but they have an excellent supply of good quality "mainstream" gear packed in. They also have kayaks and accessories.

http://www.theextremeoutfitters.com/

The Extreme Outfitters
Adventure Racing, Apparel, Backpacking, Climbing, Paddling
2271 Pointe Parkway, Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 818-0860
Contact Us: info@theextremeoutfitters.com
Open Mon.-Sat. 10am-8pm & Sun. 11am-5pm”

“What is it that you guys have against Dicks?...they're good for the basics, you can pick up fuel canisters, mountain house meals and other resupplies...they don't have a bad selection of bags, packs, and boots/trail runners either...granted they're not a full scale "outfitter" but they do have some good stuff”

“opps, gforce beat me to it, i was just about to add the extreme outfitters...they're pretty good but they're what you would expect from a outfitter in carmel...carmel is an upscale suburb of indy and all their stuff is top of the line”

“I liked them better when they were Galyan's. There was usually one "expert" to a department. In my experience it's the stock clerk who doesn't know nylon from hemp.”

““What is it that you guys have against Dicks?...they're good for the basics.....”
thriftyhiker
10:36:17 AM

I think most of us liked Gaylans better.
In conpairing the two, Dicks just looks a lot worse. Dicks would probably be treated more kindly if they hadn't taken a good general gear store and made it worse.”

“i almost forgot about gainder mountain, thanks noncon...there are 2 (that i know of) locations in indy...one on the north side(castleton) and one on the south side(greenwood)...the south side location seemed to have more backpacking stuff than the north did”

“Raupp Campfitters

421 South Washington Avenue
Royal Oak, MI 48067
(800) 449-2490

This no longer exists, either.”

“website for Mt. Rogers Outfitters in Damascus, VA is http://www.mtrogersoutfitters.com/”