Herb & Treas Manning
1 November 2008
Owners & Founder Owners, Buyers, Chief Tuner, Merchandiser, Restroom Cleaner, Board of Complaints. Let us know if we can help!
- Snow, Red Dirt & Granite Chief, our passions!
We have lived and worked in Tahoe for almost thirty years. There are times when we feel a need to get off the mountain, go somewhere green where there’s no snow shoveling, get a city fix. The best thing about leaving home is coming home. There literally is no better place to live, no better place to work.
We work in our stores full time, active on the selling floor and mingling with clients. Many of them have become good friends. We know every trail, every mountain bike ride, all of the special nuances of the Valley, Truckee and North Tahoe.
The question of how we can work, live and play together gets asked constantly. Over the years we’ve come to know each other’s strengths. We have our separate duties at Granite Chief. Herb takes on the hardgoods department, rental & demos, and booting fitting. Treas is responsible for softgoods, merchandising and store presentation. We work together on marketing and general administration. That strategy not only works for us at Granite Chief but in our personal relationship as well. Treas remembers birthdays, Herb shovels snow.
Gunner Wolf
1 November 2008
Chief Boot Fitter
Squaw Valley Store
Gunner Wolf has been with Granite Chief almost since the beginning. thirty years of boot fitting, setting the standard and developing many of the techniques that are used today in custom fitting. He has been the go to boot fitter not only for the core Squaw skier but to many elite US Ski Team athletes as well. His knowledge and expertise is among the best in the country, just ask Tamara McKinney, Julia Mancuso, Travis Ganong, Frans Webber, Tom Wayes and most anybody that has grown up skiing the steeps of Squaw Valley.
Gunner heads up our boot department and is responsible for training all Granite Chief boot fitters. If they work at Granite Chief they have been trained by Gunner
Gunner Wolf is listed as a pioneer in custom boot fitting on Wikipedia
John Darby
1 November 2008
I’m also the parent of a teenage son that has grown up very involved in skiing and ski racing. He just headed off to college in Colorado, gotta be close to skiing, guess it runs in family.
It’s great to be off the road and able to spend more time at home here in Truckee.
Sorin
1 November 2008
