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Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Dec 25, 2013 - 02:09pm PT

Hut Bump...

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Dec 25, 2013 - 02:23pm PT

You got my attention with that.

The thing I remember best about the Hut, but
Before I worked for their uptown competitor, TNF,
was the hitchhiker that we saw as we were heading down Uni to the freeway to go north to the Bugs.

He looked pretty much like he'd been washed up there, a ratty-looking dirtbag, if ever there was one,
with an old duffel and a backpack and the sign:

BUMFUK, EGYPT.

We were totally full. Sorry, Joaquin, keep walking.

Steve Grossman

Trad climber

Seattle, WA

Sep 6, 2015 - 03:37pm PT

Pioneers in retail bump...

I am off to interview Al Steck in a few weeks and I am looking forward to Ski Hut stories like the ones he shared with everyone at the first Oakdale Climbers Festival.

guido

Trad climber

Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific

Sep 6, 2015 - 05:21pm PT

Steve

Be sure to ask Steck about the summer baseball games at Tilden Park. Always a lot of fun with the German ladies working at the Hut on a work exchange program.

Steck was a good boss, gave me lots of time off and didn't punish me too much for being a young dirtbag.

When I worked there in the late 50s, Pratt, Roper and Foott were also seasonal employeeeees.

I worked in mail order under Bob Swanson who started Sierra Design along with George Marks who ran the manufacturing division. Swanson and Marks started Sierra Design and then Walrus after that.

We used postage stamps to mail our packages! The introduction of the postage meter was a welcome change.

Good time the Hut days and a real clearinghouse for ideas and innovations in the industry.