{"id":9569,"date":"2018-11-23T18:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=9569"},"modified":"2018-11-23T18:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T18:57:02","slug":"sturtevants-sun-valley-ketchum-hailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/23\/sturtevants-sun-valley-ketchum-hailey\/","title":{"rendered":"STURTEVANTS \u2013 Sun Valley, Ketchum, Hailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Olin Glenne \u2013 Authentic, Passionate, Focused<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Mary Austin Crofts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sturtevants will be 70 years old this year and owner Olin Glenne and staff are planning a party. \u201cThe store was first opened by Chuck Helm in 1948,\u201d Olin shared. \u201cIt is one of the oldest ski shops in the country.\u201d<br \/>\nOlin started working for Sturtevants 21 years ago. He began in the Warm Springs location, tuning skis and coaching for the ski team. \u201cBut, I am still not the longest-serving employee,\u201d he added. \u201cOur employees are what set us apart.\u201d<br \/>\nOlin is proud of the expertise of his staff. \u201cWe have people who work here that have decades of experience skiing and biking. And then we have passionate young people with super-high energy and enthusiasm,\u201d he explained.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s this combination that Olin credits with being consistently named the Valley\u2019s Best Ski Shop and Bike Shop. It is also the reason Sturtevants is often mentioned by various national magazines and news outlets.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is what we strive for,\u201d Olin said. \u201cWe want to be the best and most complete bike and ski shop we can be. Without sacrificing that objective, we also want to offer a complimentary mountain lifestyle selection, including apr\u00e8s, lake life, hiking, running, and fitness.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWe do all of this by striving to provide exceptional services and world-class products rooted in quality, performance and style,\u201d Olin added.<br \/>\nTo that end, Glenne and his staff focus primarily on skiing and cycling, offering purchase, demos, rentals, tune and repair, fitting, mobile services and guided tours. They are home to Sun Valley Mountain Guides that provides world-class mountain biking, hiking and shuttle services. \u201cWe are proud to be authentic, passionate and focused,\u201d Olin said.<br \/>\nFor more information, visit one of their stores in Ketchum, Hailey or Warm Springs (winter only), or check their website: www.sturtevants-sv.com.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mary Austin Crofts is the executive director of The Chamber of Hailey and the Wood River Valley.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olin Glenne \u2013 Authentic, Passionate, Focused By Mary Austin Crofts Sturtevants will be 70 years old this year and owner Olin Glenne and staff are planning a party. \u201cThe store was first opened by Chuck Helm in 1948,\u201d Olin shared. \u201cIt is one of the oldest ski shops in the country.\u201d Olin started working for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chamber-corner","8":"category-sponsored"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}