Dave Smith

Tell us three things about you that people might not know:1. I used to be a news photographer2. I play the guitar (poorly)3. I’m dabbling with the idea of full-time van life (retirement plans) What’s your favourite outdoor activity?Mountain Biking/Gravel Riding (it’s...

The Move Online

2019 saw us shift focus to more online retail, where we set up an online store and gear rental system and continued to refine the business. 2020 was a year filled with uncertainty that no one could have predicted a global pandemic. Once again, the business thrived in...

The Fire

The store continued to grow and we had gained the reputation as the go-to ski shop in Southern NB. Fast forward to September 4th, 2012. We were busy helping Hannah get ready for her first day of kindergarten the next day when the phone rang, “There are flames coming...

Outdoor Elements Inc

I opened the doors (well, the garage door) to Backdoor Bikes, a 300 sq. ft garage in Sussex Corner, where I did bike repairs (with the help of my friends at The Radical Edge, who helped me find parts) and sold some accessories. During that summer, I also worked as a...

Inspired by Adventure

As a kid, we were always going on adventures as a family. There were the simpler ones, like fishing in the streams near my first house in Sackville, to more epic ones, like when our family of seven piled into our station wagon and ventured across Canada and the US for...