ALP. TOURING/RANDONNEE & TELEMARK SKI DEMO 1/3/12

Marmot Mountain Works in Bellevue presents the annual Alpine Touring/Randonnee and Telemark Ski Gear Demo Night to be held on Tuesday January 3rd 2012 at The Summit at Snoqualmie.

The demo will be held at the Alpental ski area from 4pm until 9pm (Subject to snow conditions).  This will most likely be the only event of this kind in our region this winter.

Many of the equipment manufacturers’ representatives will be in attendance with their fleets of demo gear for you to try out.  Marmot Mountain Works will also make available the majority of their store's demo gear.  A broad assortment of equipment will be available including gear from Dynafit, K2, Black Diamond, Scarpa, Lasportiva, Rossignol, and Garmont.  This demo will include both skis and boots to try.

Please bring your own alpine touring/randonnee boots, telemark boots, and/or alpine downhill ski boots/poles and your own skis if you have them in order to maximize your options and enjoyment.

The use of the demo gear will be free of charge, but you will need to purchase your own lift ticket and you will need to bring a driver’s license and a credit card to sign up for the demo.

This demo is open to adult skiers; no kid's size equipment will be available.  Please also be aware that if you have a very small or a very big boot size (i.e Mondo size 22 or 32), then there may not be any skis available with bindings that will fit your boots…sorry.

Advance sign-up is required again this year for the ski demo due to increasing interest and attendance at recent events combined with the fixed number of demo skis available.  Please indicate if you will be trying A.T. or Telemark equipment when you sign up.  We plan on having over 100 pairs of skis available for attendees to try, but all skis will be on a first come / first served basis since this is a free demo.  We ask that you please limit your testing to 2 runs per pair of skis in order to allow everyone to have the opportunity to try as many different skis as possible!

In an effort to accommodate more people than in previous years, the demo sign-ups will be split into 2 different session times:

4pm to 6:30pm, or 6pm to 9pm

You will be required to sign up for one session OR the other.  People signing up for the 6pm-9pm session may be able to try skis before 6pm if they arrive earlier as long as there are still skis available to try, but do not count on it.  People signing up for the 4pm-6:30pm session will need to have all equipment back to the demo area no later than 6:30pm, no exceptions.

This demo is intended for retail customers only.  Please, no retail store employees or industry professionals.

Sign-ups may be limited, so don’t wait until the last minute.  Sign up now!

For more information and to R.S.V.P., please call Marmot Mountain Works @ 425-453-1515.

- We hope to see everyone on the slopes! – David May

Marmot Mountain Works
827 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA  98004

Just a reminder that the ski demo is tomorrow night at Alpental.

There are still some spots left, so sign-up now if you want to join in at the last minute!

- David

Great ski demo tonight, Thanks! Alpental >>>>>>>> West for the demo.

Big thanks to Lock, Dave and all the reps for the good times and keeping the rain turned off until the very end! Lots of good skis, and the Alpental venue is way better - plenty of variety to really get a feel for how the ski works in a variety of conditions.

It was a great demo, got to ski a wide range of skis, 8 of them ranging from 84mm (Dynafit Baltoro) to 135mm (BD Gigawatt) underfoot. Including the excellent La Sportiva Hi5 , which was my favorite of the night. Thanks to Marmot and the reps for all the hard work.

I agree that Alpental is a far superior location for the demo than Summit West -- please, please keep it there! Obviously the better terrain, but most of all, a high-speed quad which lets you actually get some skiing on the demo skis, instead of sitting endlessly on a mind-numbingly slow chair, spending most of the night testing how well the skis hang from your feet.

My thanks to Marmot the Reps and Alp.  Was excellent to try out gear... seemed like a low turnout of folks and a high amount of gear.  I'm still sorting out boots and was surprised to see all the choices available from the reps.  It made me super excited... boots, snow, go!

Everyone was grand, eager to share and I wasn't in a shop having this conversation. I don't think there is a better office than the hill and opportunity to check out fit, feel and boogie.

I brought my coombacks, skied boots in my system and got good tasters in.

Thanks guys... I had a great time and found it extremely helpful.  it was awesome!

-tob