The Pack and Paddle Blog

Lately I have been making lots of appointments with reps for the upcoming Outdoor Retailer trade show that we attend twice a year. Reps will call and invariably the conversation turns towards business. “How are things going?”, “Are your sales up?”, “Do you have any new directions that you are driving the business in?”. Then [...] Continue Reading

As an update to my post on the Prana merchandising contest – I wanted to let you know that from hundreds of entries from across the US, our Wind Over Water display was chosen as the third place winner! I have to say that even though it seems cool to say it doesn’t really matter, [...] Continue Reading

Last week, Becky and I attended a family reunion in New Mexico. While there, we had the opportunity to take an interpretive tour of the Pecos National Historic Park. Our tour guide painted a picture in our minds of what this area was like when the native americans lived there for literally thousands of years. [...] Continue Reading

Hi Pack & Paddle Folks, I am posting a trail journal entry from a Hiker with the trail name, Tha Wookie. In this entry, Tha Wookie (AKA Nate Olive) journals about something Becky and I thought of many times on the AT, but had trouble putting into words. Nate has hiked the AT, the PCT [...] Continue Reading

    A few weeks ago we received an invitation to compete in a merchandising contest for one of our clothing brands. Prana is having a contest to see what store can create the best display of their products. I started talking to Amy on our staff about what we could do that would be [...] Continue Reading

We had a little bit of a curve ball yesterday. We were doing our usual run-around of working with our staff, moving ahead on projects, preparing for our film festival night and working on future booking orders (for next spring – believe it or not) for new products. Our architecht, Scott Shall, who is also [...] Continue Reading

Before hiking the Appalachian Trail last year, I don’t think that I fully understood the value of a lazy day. Even though most people would call me laid back, I tend to be a pretty driven person. I like to have a project to sink my teeth into, a job to work on, a goal [...] Continue Reading

  The new space at Pack & Paddle has had several lives, and as we progress in the de-construction phase, we’ve been able to see each life kind of like an archaeologist would see a past civilization. The most noticeable thing you’ll see right now is the large airbrushed mural on the wall that was [...] Continue Reading

Seems like I’ve heard a story about windows and doors that had] an inspirational message somewhere before. Since I don’t remember it, I guess that’s a little off the point. But – I do have a neat story about how an old set of windows brought us together with a really cool person. We’ve known [...] Continue Reading

We’ve been working on this project for what seems like forever, and we are only just now getting ready to start building new stuff. Here’s some of the things we’ve been doing so far: Working with our architect, Scott Shall Tearing down 3 of the old decks in the room. Removing the tin from the [...] Continue Reading