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We’ve come a long way, baby — the Outfitters Store!

Posted by: Lenore in ACE Adventure Resort, ACE Adventure Gear Shoppe on Jun 24, 2009

Over the past 20 some years I’ve worked at ACE, the store has certainly grown.

In 1989 we operated out of the Glen Jean base (I know some of you remember those days) and the store had a very limited selection of T Shirts—2 styles, 3 colors. Tan, yellow and light blue. The store was a room perhaps 12 x 30, small and cramped.

In 1990 we made the move to the present ACE Adventure Resort complex and used one of the new buildings they had built. What is now the reservation office was then the store/video viewing/changing rooms. It had a plank floor and some of the kids would scrounge around under the building for the change customers had dropped through the floor. It had no heat, and the restroom facility was a porta-john.

With so much more space we were able to carry a lot more t-shirts in a lot more colors. Before the advent of wetsuit bootie rentals, we sold lots of primitive wetsuit material socks—very uncomfortable but they worked! For video viewing, we showed one video at a time and everyone just stood and watched it, without the benefit of a bar close at hand.

Time marched on and soon we relocated the store to what is now the Lost Paddle Bar & Grill. I know, it gets confusing remembering what used to be what, but the fireplace in the bar was the centerpiece of the store back then and the side of the bar where the pool tables are didn’t exist. It was added on to give us more room, and as plans for the building’s use changed, it was time to relocate the store again—this time to the existing location next to the Big Top Tent.

The present location allows ACE to carry a larger variety of souvenir items as well as Columbia Sportswear, Decker’s (Teva’s), North Face and more. If you haven’t already, check out the Outfitter’s Store the next time you’re at ACE for a great selection of T-shirts, outdoor gear and WV products.

Film Festival Headed To Fayette Station

Posted by: ACE Blog Team in Whitewater Rafting, Film Festival, ACE Adventure Gear Shoppe on Jun 15, 2009

ACE Adventure Resort will host the 4th annual Reel Paddling Film Festival this Saturday.

The Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour is traveling all over the world, showing awesome whitewater, sea kayaking and canoeing films.

Saturday, June 20, we’ll be screening the festival’s films at the ACE Adventure Gear Shoppe and Camps at Fayette Station here in Fayetteville.

And that's not all.

New kayaks and free river shuttles

Posted by: Tug in shuttle, kayaks, demos, clinics, ACE Adventure Gear Shoppe on May 12, 2009

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Howboutchee! It's me, Tug, again. I know, I know but this is what I do.

I just wanted to let y'all know that the new 2009 kayak models are in at ACE Adventure Gear Shoppe. You should also know that our free river shuttle starts on May 6.

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