Wasatch Touring
702 E 100 S
Salt Lake City, UT
84111
Owners Dwight and Charlie grew up in Minnesota surrounded by
Scandinavians who loved the outdoors, human powered travel and
adventure, weather it be by ski, bike, paddle or foot. Their parents and
neighbors encouraged all of them as kids to camp, skate, canoe, swim, ski
and bike in and around the local countryside.
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| Charlie and Dwight Butler, owners of Wasatch Touring |
They moved to Utah in 1972 to open a cross-country ski shop, Wasatch
Touring. Their initial mission was to share the beauty of backcountry
travel on skis, by offering rental gear and taking anyone they could
enlist, up into the ski trails we were exploring in the Wasatch
Mountains.
After three winters of closing shop for the summer, in 1975 they
expanded into cycling and changed to a year round business. Shortly
thereafter they purchased mountain bikes and became the first Specialized
and the first mountain bicycle dealer in the State of Utah.
Wasatch Touring sells and rents Nordic skis, both skate and classic, but also
offers Telemark and Alpine Touring (AT) skis with climbing skins. They
sell, repair and rent split snowboards and snowshoes, have ski wax and
tuning services and stock all the gear, clothing and accessories for
everything from a Winter stroll up Mill Creek, to a ski decent of Lone
Peak.
In the Summers they are a full service shop for both road and
mountain bikes. Their road bike emphasis is on touring, commuting, and
endurance riding. In mountain bikes are focused on cross-country and
enduro riding, but they do employ a downhill-er, a jumper, a old BMX
racer, as well as a former Cycle-cross racer from Iowa. They rent a range
of mountain and road bikes appropriate for everything from a casual ride
around town to a epic mountain trail ride. They recently added Tri Cross bikes
to the rental/demo bike mix.
They offer bike fit, bike tools, maintenance and repair clinics, ski
tuning, plastic boot repair, boot punching and fitting.
Supporting the NICA high school mountain bike race program fits with Wasatch Touring's enduring original mission of promoting human powered fun in the
great outdoors!
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