Mountain Shop at Curry Village — Local services in Oakhurst

A store with an amazing reputation and some great climbing photos- a climbing store in the heart of the home of american big wall climbing.

If you're after some rock climbing gear like an adult size climbing helmet, larger size approach shoes, aid ladder with a spreader bar, beaks, cam hooks, totem cams, non-XL sized big wall harnesses, wag bags, rope buckets, 5mm accessory cord, grigri2 you can come here and see if they have them. They didn't have any during the month or so I was in the valley, and the staff were unable to tell me when they would be re-stocking. Apparently the stocking position is now shared with other valley stores, which are stocked in a similar fashion.

Would strongly recommend buying all your technical gear before getting to yosemite rather then relying on the haphazard stocking in the store.

Some of the staff are climbers and are a good source of local beta, while some are purely...

The Mountaineering School employees were out for lunch but the store employees standing around at the front register there in the shop were NOT interested in helping orient us or give us any information. Only 1 of the 3 even greeted us and when we indicated our first time in here and looking for info, the answer felt delivered with annoyance and low patience. For a place designed to draw tourists, this was disappointing and walked out feeling like that's a store we don't need to return to on future visits! 3 stars just because they weren't outright rude.

Thankfully we found these signs. Look forward to trying out the Mountaineering School and hopefully their employees are...

I rarely leave bad reviews, but this place absolutely earned it. The employee helping us was incredibly rude and completely disengaged. He seemed either stoned or just totally out of it—slurring words, moving slow, and way more interested in talking about his personal life stories than actually doing his job. At one point, there was a line forming and he was still mid-rant about something that happened to him “back in the day.” It felt like we walked into his therapy session, not a business.

On top of that, everything is ridiculously overpriced for what you get. You're paying premium prices and getting bargain bin service—if any service at all. Honestly, it felt...