The Tribe

Meet Mike Friece!     "We don't go into the mountains seeking comfort and security. Exposing ourselves and leaving our comfort zone is what makes us feel alive and procures us with sensations we continually look to feel again: - Bruno Compagnet   Where are you from? Norwood, Massachusetts Where's you learn to...

Meet Our Granite Chief Staff: Michelle Delumyea!       "Follow your passions and stay true to your friends." - Robert Frolich   Where are you originally from? Truckee, CA Where did you learn to ski at? Squaw Valley Current Favorite Mountain?  Squaw Valley Off season sport: Mountain Biking...

Meet Our Granite Chief Staff: Grant!     "All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine" -Spicol   Where are you originally from? Reno, Nevada Where did you first learn to ski? Squaw Valley. Favorite Mountain? Squaw Valley Off Season activity? Golf, Motto ...

Meet Fraser Query!!           Where are you from? Jamaica, Vermont Where'd you learn to ski? at Stratton, Vermont Favorite Mountain: Whistler, BC Off season sport: Climbing, Mountain Biking, photography Item on your bucket list? Learn to ski If you could only eat one...

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 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...

Chief Boot Fitter 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...

Custom Boot Fitter & Hardgoods Sales Associate Entering his twenty-sixth year as a custom boot fitter, and his sixteenth at Granite Chief, there's about nothing Darren can't fix when it comes to ski boots. Specializing in fore, aft, and lateral boot balancing, Darren has an uncanny eye for how to improve your boot alignment. Darren also builds custom...

Custom Boot Fitter & Hard Goods Sales Associate Ja boi, Tydel was born and raised in tropical Lake Tahoe. A true native of the area, he enjoys nipple-deep pow turns as well as sparking some arcs. Tydel’s Jedi training is currently being overseen by none other than the Gun Show, AKA Gunner. Ja boi grew up skiing at the Legendary Squaw Valley...