Calgary rentals

[xy9ine]

Im in town (and gearless) for the week; will be heading out later this week (probably louise or sunshine), and need to rent some gear. Any suggestions as to who in town might have the least sucky / potentially carvable hardware? I'm near the university. Looks like they have gear rentals...

[Allee]

You should at least have bought your boots with you, the crew here could have found you an alpine board and binders ...:)

If you're looking for softie gear, then Sunshine has a pretty decent line of Salomon stuff on the hill, that might be a bit nicer than the usual junk. The university does have rental gear, but I'm not sure what it's like.

[bigdyno]

@Allee: FYI Alexis starts working at the UofC outdoor center in the new year for her final practicum, we may get insider info/deals/cool stuff. Let us know if you ever want to rent stuff.

[big canuck]

Is the U renting kids SB gear?

[bigdyno]

I'll let you know as soon as Alexis starts next week.

[xy9ine]

we swung past the u to check out the gear; turned out to be the typical short & floppy rental stuff. my wife picked up gear there (a negative cambered burton something - looked broken w/ a kink in the middle. weird tech), whilst i grabbed a 'high performance package' salomon burner from sunshine. longest length was 163, but turned out to be a fun ride once the i tweaked the bindings to eliminate boot out. havent been on softies for a few years but it was pretty fun - esp. w/ the 18cms of fresh (on top of a similar dump the day previous). great day up there; not a bad hill - apart from an overabundance of flat runouts.