Sport Chalet, Inc. operates as a specialty sporting goods retailer in the United States. It offers traditional sporting goods merchandise, including footwear, apparel, and other general athletic merchandise, as well as specialty merchandise for activities, such as snowboarding, skateboarding, mountaineering, and Scuba. The company s stores also provide various specialty services for the sports enthusiast, including climbing, backcountry skiing, ski mountaineering, avalanche education, and mountain trekking instruction, car rack installation, snowboard and ski rental and repair, scuba training and certification, scuba boat charters, gait analysis, baseball/softball glove steaming and lacing, racquet stringing, and bicycle tune-up and repair. As of September 10, 2013, it operated 52 stores in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, as well as an online store at sportchalet.com. The company was founded in 1959 and is based in La Ca ada, California.