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Its that time of year once again to bring us your consignment ski’s and race suits!  Crack open the attic, move the bags out of the garage, and bring your used (and in decent condition) recreational ski, race skis, adult skis, junior skis, and race suits down to Start Haus. 

We’ll help you price the gear to sell and you choose either 70% store credit or 60% cash in the form of a check.

We’re taking in skis now and space will be limited- get your skis in today!  Sale happens over Labor Day Weekend 2021- that’s Friday August 3rd to Monday September 6th.

Accepting gear starting Friday August 6th!

Wintersteiger OMEGA Racing RS 350 Ski Grinding Machine Base Grinder for SALE- $55,000  SOLD

Not sure about that recommended pair of skis one of our trusted employees handed you?

DEMO IT - any ski, any mountain, any shop - just bring us your demo receipt from this season and we'll give you the demo value of up to $75 toward any full price adult rec ski!

The Head Kore series of skis are the kind of skis that don’t come around every year.
They combine characteristics that we traditionally think of as mutually exclusive.
And they’ve definitely grabbed the attention of Start Haus staff.

Well damped, calm and stable on edge, yet light, playful and quick from edge to edge
– The Head Kore 93, 105 and 117 manage to never be nervous nor lethargic,
responding to skier’s input intuitively and always doing what you want them to do.

The narrowest of the bunch – the Head Kore 93, rails on groomers and even
punches through the crud in a way a ski this light has no business doing. It may
sound like hyperbole, but a unique construction combining karuba wood, Koroyd
(think Smith helmets) and a layer of carbon infused with Graphene all add up to a
structure that does the job of traditional metal laminates, minus 200 grams per ski.

The Head Kore 105 snagged Powder Magazine’s ski of the Year last year, and it’s
really a perfect all-rounder for the Tahoe

SALE IS NOW COMPLETE!

Thanks to everyone who made this one of our biggest consignment sales yet!  We'll be compiling sales reports in the coming weeks.  Standby for a notification of your credit.

Start planning for the annual Start Haus Ski Consignment Sale! Got skis stacking up in your garage? Bring em down and turn that old gear into new.

Accepting skis now!

Bring us your used or new skis & race suits to get checked in and priced! Choose either 80% store credit or 60% cash and clear out that old gear!

Sale happens over labor day weekend, every year. This is a great way to sell off your old skis & race suits, and shop for either newer used gear or take advantage of our store-wide sale!

Bikes, skis, and more will be on sale for up-to HALF OFF.

Its time to start thinking about trading in that old bike for a new whip! Bring us your used bike to sell at our 3rd annual Memorial Weekend Bike Consignment Sale!

You choose either 80% store credit to spend on anything in the shop, or choose 100% credit toward a new bike!

Accepting bikes now - whether its a DH, mountain bike, roadie, or a cruiser - dust it off and bring it by the shop. We'll help you check it in, price it, and we'll store it for you until the sale.

Sale happens Memorial Weekend, May 25th through 28th!

Norco Sight 29 & 27.5: Two Top Tahoe Bike Contenders

The perfect Tahoe bike is something we can debate until we’re blue in the face – but for a bike that can take on our region’s gnarly terrain just as well as it can head out for an all-day epic on the Tahoe Rim Trail, the new Norco Sight is tough to beat.

Start off by picking the personality you’re looking for –29-inch wheels with great rollover and speed, or 27.5 for a more nimble ride perfect for those who prefer to pop off of little lips and rocks rather than plowing through them.

The 29er gets 130mm of well-controlled travel in the rear, 140mm up front. Enough to mash through the local rock garden, but without slowing you down on the climb. The 27.5 gets a little more with 140mm in back and 150mm in front – great for getting rowdy without dumbing down your favorite flow trail.

But geometry is what really defines the character of these bikes, and the Sight hits all the right angles and measurements on the head. The head tube angle backs

Salomon Shift – Shaking Up Backcountry Bindings

For a long time now, backcountry skiers had a fundamental choice to make: the lightest, most efficient binding design for going uphill, or the best performing, safest for going downhill.

Tech bindings, pioneered by Dynafit, are light and efficient, using toe pins to rotate with each stride in the skin track. Frame bindings, like Marker’s venerable Duke, skied like a real alpine binding but are heavy, and stay attached to your foot while in walk mode, meaning you lift the binding with each stride.

Salomon’s new S/Lab Shift binding, available at Start Haus next fall, promises to deliver the best of both worlds for the first time. Sure, the Marker Kingpin gave the touring function of a tech toe and the skiing prowess of a alpine heal, but the S/Lab takes it a step farther, giving alpine toe piece performance to complete the package.

Basically, a new mechanism lets you seamlessly swap between a tech toe and an alpine toe while on the hill. It’s

There’s nothing like a freshly tuned and waxed pair of skis from the Start Haus award-winning ski tuners. But many of our customers like to take on some of the regular tasks of keeping there skis running smooth and fast, and we’ve got the tools to get you started.

First, let’s talk waxing- a great way to regularly keep your skis running smooth.

We’ll assume you aren’t a ski racer today – who have there own special waxing needs for training and race day. The rest of us can get a whole lot of benefit from a much simpler regime done regularly.

The Wax:

While racers deal in all sorts of high-tech additives, overlays and such, the rest of us can happily start off with simple hydrocarbon wax. Regardless of brand, colors typically correlate to temperature ratings.

Blue Hydrocarbon: for the coldest conditions we see in the Tahoe-Truckee area. It’s harder wax to stand up to the sharp crystals of truly cold temperatures (below 21 degrees F).

Red Hydrocarbon: If you just

Check out the tried and true method for warming up those feet on cold days on the mountain.

Our epic sale continues!  Come check out our early spring sales with deals too good to miss.

Race skis are currently 20% OFF in store only.  (Race bindings are not on sale.)

If you can't make it in, buy it online!  Apply the coupon SKI40NOW in your cart!

Last week we talked about the value of custom footbeds – but that’s just one component of a custom boot fit.

Custom-fit ski boots are the biggest improvement any skier can make through equipment – it gives precise yet comfortable control over the ski while reducing fatigue and even helping with circulation and cold feet.

Too many skiers have boots that are too big or loose, the liners packed out and their feet swimming inside, making for an unpredictable, uncomfortable and fatiguing day on the slope. On the other side of the spectrum, some think the price of performance is discomfort, with boots too tight and not properly fitted, often resulting in serious pain.

True custom ski boot fitting is what Start Haus’s reputation was built on. Google us and you’ll find articles in Skiing Magazine about our boot fitter’s work. And what our boot fitters can do goes well beyond the typical liner warm up in an easy-bake oven – our experts form the plastic of the boot itself to your feet.

That fitting