Even weekend warriors who take the challenge of a fourteener can feel comfortable when they visit Mountain Sports and Neptune Mountaineering for hiking boots. We have an experienced staff, but we are balanced to cater to the weekend hiker. We have to work doubly hard to serve the needs of those people as well. Scott Lee, general manager of Mountain Sports, said the reputation of the store is based upon taking care of all who trek Colorado mountain along the switchbacks or tackle some Alpine scaling. We are specialized in climbing, but we have people who are backpackers, walkers and runners.
People come in because they like our clothing or our sandals.
We don't want our customers to feel intimidated. However, they rely upon loyal clientele who have served them well in their combined 70 years of doing business in Boulder, surrounded by such internationally known climbing destinations as Eldorado and Boulder canyons. Both stores rent rock shoes, leather mountaineering boots, plastic mountaineering boots, internal frame packs, ice tools, crampons and snowshoes. REI and Eastern Mountain may have larger inventories and, perhaps, a wider selection of climbing gear and other outdoor equipment. Neptune has a climbing museum at his 633 S. Broadway store that include a collection of the boots and crampons from the 1953 first ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary.