Garrison Running Co.

Most of what sporting goods means in this city involves a river. The Vedder and the Chilliwack are among the most heavily fished water in the Lower Mainland, so rods, tackle and river gear amount to a serious local trade rather than an aisle in a big box store, and the shops carrying it cluster toward Vedder Crossing where the anglers actually go. Around that sit hiking and climbing supply for Elk Mountain and the Cheam range, paddling for Cultus Lake, hunting supply for the back country, and the ordinary team sport business of a city with a lot of youth hockey. The national outdoor chains are not listed.

Otherwise, the details are sparse: a postal code, no street number, no telephone number, no website. Quite a lot is left unanswered by that, including the obvious question of what is actually carried and whether the shop covers more ground than its name suggests. None of that can be answered from here. A shop depends on being walked into, which makes having so little information published more of an obstacle here than it would be for a trade that drives out to its customers. The postal code will get a map to the right corner of Vedder, and anything past that means turning up in person or tracking down a number by some other route first.