Ski Area Rental and
Accessories Buying Program
SARA-BP is a cooperative regional associations' program with these participating associations:
- the Midwest Ski Areas Association
- the Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association,
- the Idaho Ski Areas Association
- the South East Ski Areas Association,
- the Pennsylvania Ski Areas Association,
- Ski Areas of New York
- the Ski Maine Association
- the Ski New Hampshire Association
and our 250 member ski areas across the USA
Your ski area's state or regional association benefits, just as your ski area does, when you participate in this program.
The Ski Area Rental and Accessories Buying Program (SARA-BP) was formed to help member ski areas:
- Obtain rental ski and snowboard equipment that is much more durable under rental conditions than the rental skis that began to be offered when shaped skis first came to market.
- Offer pricing to all buyers that is consistently as good a price as the biggest group rental buyers receive when they place fleet orders.
- Support our regional and state associations.
... and to help make working with ski area rental and accessory buyers easier for our suppliers!
Working with our suppliers, SARA-BP has successfully reduced the rental equipment durability issues significantly. The rental ski and snowboard equipment market offers much more durable equipment that has far fewer issues than when cap ski construction was first introduced along with shaped skis. The Ski Area Rentals and Accessories Buying Program continues to monitor the durability of skis, snowboards, bindings, boots and ski poles through its Equipment Test Program. Several ski areas accept current and/or new products to test. The equipment is placed in their rental shops and they try to rent it as frequently as possible. The rental equipment is tracked and monitored by the test rental shops in order to determine:- Durability
- Rental Efficiencies
- Customer Satisfaction