Great gear shops are like a toy stores filled with skis and bikes, ropes and chalk. Walking through the door can sow the seeds for the next adventure. Friendships begin. Knowledge gets dropped. When a beloved gear shop unexpectedly closed in Seattle, it shocked the local community and left them wondering whether it could be rekindled. In a day of online, convenience shopping, is there still room for the local gear shop?

Music: If Walls Could Talk by Jacob Bain & Nis Kotto  •  The Threads by Publish the Quest  •  I Am Faint by Ken Christianson  •  The Biddy Bong Song by Publish the Quest   •  Firediary5 by Ken Christianson  •  Home by Publish the Quest  •  Tracks provided with permission from the artists.