From: Boreas Backcountry Adventures
[info@boreasbackcountry.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:12
PM
To: deb@pin.ca
Subject: (05-0625) Boreas Backcountry
Adventures
Hi Debby,
Please use the following
as the description of our business for the webpage. A link to
www.boreasbackcountry.com would also help to give a good picture. I'll
send some pictures with captions shortly. Do you want the caption on the
image itself?
Sincerely,
Dan Hay
Director, Guiding
Services
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Boreas
Backcountry Adventures
Ltd.
Tel: (250) 427-7200
PO Box
355
Toll Free: 1-888-395-1133
Kimberley, BC Canada V1A
2Y9
Outside North America: 001-250-427-7200
Explore Western Canada on our
Summer Treks or experience a Klondike Gold Rush Historical Adventure
Visit www.boreasbackcountry.com for
complete tour details
Office Hours: (Mountain Time)
Mon. - Sat - 10:30
am - 5:30 pm
Sunday - Closed
Boreas Backcountry
Adventures and Mountains & Co. retail store
Kimberley,
BC
Asking $90,000
For Boreas Backcountry Adventures
and Mountains & Co. retail shop located in Kimberley, BC
Enjoy
the lifestyle of operating guided hiking tours and your own adventure retail
shop in a resort town in British Columbia’s Kootenay Rockies. You will get
a head start in the adventure tourism industry with this unique business
opportunity that will see you working and living in a growing resort in the
Kootenay Rockies region of British Columbia. Cash in on the low cost of
living in Kimberley and invest in the growing adventure industry market with a
seven year old backpacking tour business combined with a two year old outdoor
retail store. The economic prospects for Kimberley look great and this is
the time to get in while it is affordable.
Boreas
Backcountry Adventures has been operating guided backpacking tours throughout
western Canada to places such as the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National
Park, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, and the Chilkoot Trail in
northwest British Columbia and southeast Alaska. In the winter we have
guided day snowshoeing tours near Kimberley for Kimberley Alpine Resort
visitors. We have just started offering learning travel tours based upon
the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon. Plus there are many other new
opportunities that can be pursued, such as local interpretive walks, David
Thompson Bicentennial activities in 2007, and more winter activities.
Please visit our website at www.boreasbackcountry.com for
complete information on our tours. We get clientele from all over North
America and Europe with several repeat customers every year.
Mountains & Co. is the retail store and is home base for all
of our tours. The store services the local and visitor market seeking
equipment and supplies for their mountain adventures. The store is
decorated with a natural look and has a good local following of customers.
Expansion of the product lines would greatly enhance the attractiveness to the
market.
Equipment List:
The purchase
price includes all equipment, fixtures, and office equipment required to operate
both the retail store and the tours. The equipment is listed at
approximately $20,000 and includes a 1993 Ford 8 passenger van and backpacking
equipment able to outfit 10-12 people. The price also includes the fully
functional and appealing website www.boreasbackcountry.com.
Retail
Inventory:
Currently we stock products from the following companies
with the inventory worth approximately
$30,000:
· Prana
activewear
· Stonewear
Designs
· Outdoor
Research
· Ambler
Mountainworks
· Gregory
Backpacks
· Kelty
Backpacks
· Petzl
Headlamps
· MSR stoves,
snowshoes
· Tubbs
Sbowshoes
· Orotvox
beacons
· G3 avalanche probes
& shovels
· Cascade
Designs
· Trango Climbing
gear
· Sundog
Eyewear
· Variety of regional
guidebooks, topographic maps, nature
guides
· Lifestyle gifts such
as poster, books, wall signs
There are many more
opportunities available, especially with stocking more clothing. We
recommend an additional investment of at least $40,000 to maximize
revenues.
Property Lease
The business leases a
1500 square foot premise located in Kimberley’s Platzl, a pedestrian shopping
plaza located in the heart of the downtown. The current lease rate is $650
per month plus 7% GST tax and includes all property taxes and gas
utilities. Hydro averages $60 every two months. The lease is up for
renewal on December 1, 2005.
About the
Community
Kimberley is a mountain town located in southeast British
Columbia and is home to approximately 7,000 people in a trading region of over
60,000. There are three full golf courses in the city with another 13
courses within a 30-90 minute drive. Kimberley is also home to the
Kimberley Alpine Resort which is owned by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies which
also owns resorts at Lake Louise, Fernie, and several other locations. The
city is growing with many new residents and recreation home owners taking
advantage of the city’s mountain lifestyle and its growing tourism
economy. Currently there is an unprecedented growth in the city from
Alberta, Saskatchewan and overseas. This growth is expected to continue
especially as one looks at nearby resort communities like Invermere and Canmore
and they phenomenal growth in the past 10-15 years.
This is the
time to invest in Kimberley as the future looks very bright with many new
developments such as, an expanded airport to service long-haul and overseas
flights, a new paralympic training centre for Alpine and Nordic skiing at the
Kimberley Alpine Resort, the Sullivan Mine Interpretive Centre, and many condo
developments. The airport expansion is expected to be completed by late
2006/early 2007 and once done, will be the only international airport in Canada
within a 20 minute drive of a major ski/golf resort.
Visit the
following websites for more information about
Kimberley:
o www.city.kimberley.bc.ca
o www.thinkkimberley.com
o www.skikimberley.com
o www.kimberleychamber.ca
o www.kootenayrockies.com
All the initial hard work has already been
done in this business for it to prosper in a growing industry and resort
town. The business is priced to sell quickly as the owners are looking for
a career change to better suit their growing family.
Contact Information
Please use the following
contacts and not the company contacts listed on our website:
Dan and Erin
Hay
PO Box 355
Kimberley BC V1A 2Y9
Home Phone (250) 427-5318
forsale@boreasbackcountry.com