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Site Visit: REI Store, Seattle

Site Visit: REI Store, Seattle

By Guy Brighton on June 13, 2005


Before you even enter the store, you can feel the energy. First, you notice a track for folk testing mountain bikes that laps around the store. Then you notice a chain of clocks that feature the time in various mountain locations. Even as you reach for the door handle you are reminded of the great outdoors: it’s a climbing axe.

REI StoreNot only is the place is jam-packed full of outdoors kit, but it’s also jammed full of brand experience. A 65 foot climbing tower stands proud in one corner, but if that’s a little excessive for you, you can try a mini trail to check your new walking shoes, or you can climb a boulder for your climbing shoes.

REI StoreThe staff, it appears, truly live and breathe the great outdoors (they even test all the equipment before they sell it). There’s even a library and information desk to help you plan your next adventure.

If there’s a city that this REI store should sit, it would be Seattle with its natural surroundings. REI Store - Door HandleThe store is extremely authentic, you can sense the owner’s vision, and you just lap it up.

222 Yale Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109. (206) 223-1944

btw – Do visit the new Seattle Library if you are in the area too. Simply perfect.

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