Runner up: Rim Rock Adventures, Fruita, Colorado Bike Guide Companyīeer and Bike Tours, Fort Collins, Colorado They run the Arkansas River and the Royal Gorge, as well as doing multi-day trips and gear demos. Whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced river rat, the folks at River Runners have a trip that’s your speed.
Runner up: Colorado Mountain School Whitewater Guide Company Whitewater Guides: River Runners. The Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center provides year-round, top-of-the-line opportunities to kayak, raft, ski, snowboard, SUP, and mountain bike with some of the best guides in the Rocky Mountains. Runner up: Black Burro Bikes, Buena Vista, Colorado Climbing/Hiking Guide Company Courtesy Over the Edge.Ī pioneer in building, promoting, and supporting Fruita’s now-legendary trail system, Over the Edge is still the go-to shop to find beta and gear for singletrack in Western Colorado-and beyond. Runner up: 42 Degrees North, Casper, Wyoming Bike Shop Over the Edge Sports, Fruita, Colorado. Just a short jaunt from the popular Arkansas trail system, 7000 Feet Running Company is dedicated to serving customers who love running in the mountains and the feel of the trail beneath their feet. Runner Up: Wilderness Exchange, Denver, Colorado Running Retail Shopħ000 Feet Running Company, Salida, Colorado To this day, it remains the local favorite for everything from advice on climbs to mounting your new touring skis. It has since been saved from almost closing, remodeled, and revitalized by Shelley and Andrew Dunbar. Part outdoor store, part mountaineering museum, part neighborhood hangout, Neptune has been serving the good people of Boulder since 1973, when it was founded by Gary Neptune. Neptune Mountaineering, Boulder, Colorado With five locations in Colorado, it’s a community of dedicated climbers who spread a love for the sport, which is why, for the second year in a row, it can be called the best climbing gym in the Rockies. Photo Courtesy Earth Treks.Įarth Treks started as a concept in a tent high on the slopes of Denali, and it has since turned into the largest indoor climbing gym in the world in the Englewood location, which claims 53,000 square feet of bouldering and roped routes as well as yoga and fitness classes and private coaches who will work with climbers of all ages to improve their skills on the wall. Runner up: Colorado Mountain School Climbing Gym Earth Treks. It provides opportunities for employees to own equity in the company, creating a culture of hard-working, personally invested guides. Rocky Mountain Outdoor Center (RMOC), Buena Vista, Coloradoįew companies offer their employees such a wide variety of opportunities to work in the outdoor realm as RMOC. Runner up: RMU, Breckenridge, colorado Outdoor-related Company to work for And beyond its products, Big Agnes takes care of its own-employees can head out on company-approved adventures to use, test, and know intimately the gear they make-and love. The company’s dedication to ultra-light, high-tech, family-friendly outdoor gear is unrivaled. This is the fourth time in five years that Big Agnes, the Steamboat Springs-based outdoor gear manufacturer, has won Best Outdoor Gear Brand in this poll, for good reason.
Runner up: Peter Hall, Hala Gear, Steamboat Springs, Colorado Outdoor Brand Big Agnes. TGR also works hard to reduce its environmental impact, through its support for a variety of different conservation and sustainability initiatives, like Protect Our Winters, One Percent for the Planet, BICEP, and the Surfrider Foundation. Now 18 years into the business, they’re still showcasing the world’s top athletes but pushing beyond pure action in films like “Andy Irons: Kissed by God,” which dives into the legendary surfer’s mental illness, and “Ode to Muir,” which speaks to conservation as much as snowboarding. Since then, TGR has grown into one of the most innovative outdoor film production companies on the planet: They’ve made over 30 genre-defining ski, snowboard, and surf films. Teton Gravity Research (TGR) started as an idea between brothers Todd and Steve Jones and their friend Dirk Collins on a river in Alaska in 1995. Todd and Steve Jones, Teton Gravity Research, Jackson Hole, Wyoming Read on to find out who took top honors and plan to advocate for your heroes and go-to spots next year.įeatured photo of 2020 Best Advocate Clare Gallagher by Davis Brendan Businesses Outdoor Innovators Innovators: Teton Gravity Research. The result is a listing of the personalities and places that make the outdoors pump. Every year we ask our readers to nominate their choices for the very best businesses, people, destinations, and events in the Rocky Mountain region.
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