""the employees at OMC don't stroke my ego"". It's always from the same friends group so take it with a grain of salt. Get over yourselves and get on with the scheduled bi-weekly middle-age slow ascents of the south side. I've been shopping with Richard and his crew since '73. The employees at OMC USE THE GEAR! Of the two other shops in town...one is a teenage store now and the other is managed by a suit and tie team from GI Joes.
OMC is unadvertised, uncorporate, unmolested. It's still the kind of shop that you can trade a six pack for a tele-mount and find beta on a line that nobody else knows about. OMC houses people who love the mountains and love their boss. I've heard about their all-employee trips in the Wallowas and that alone needs to be recognized.
Pros: employee knowledge, local business/indy, high end products
Cons: , location, location
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