Ski Area Rental and
Accessories Buying Program

 

SARA-BP is a cooperative regional associations' program with these participating associations:

 

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:

... 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:

If your ski area is a member of one of the regional ski area associations listed above, you need a password to log in to view offers from our suppliers.

Please E-mail or call your regional association office or

E-mail sara-program@usa.net and ask for your user name and password.