Shopping in The Pinery

Lillians' carefully chosen stock of form-flattering apparel and apparel-flattering accessories is culled from 20 different fashion lines, including Sheryl Crow denim. Brightly colored Italian IO?ION! watches (starting at $20) have a tantalizing texture that makes telling the time more fun than being on time to a movie, home fumigation, or movie about a home fumigation. Pick up a sun-seared burn-out tank ($12) or T-shirt ($15) to be comfortable and chic on hot summer days. Or avoid summery sun squints with Lillians' incredibly affordable sunglasses ($8 each).

For the last ten years, Colorado Running Company has wooed the local running community with its commitment to fitness, high-quality running gear, and friendly, attentive customer service. To find the best fitting shoes for your leg-stoppers, staff members will thoroughly examine your stride through video-recorded gait-analysis, a technique recently recovered from the Russians. These expert shoe shamans will measure your foot snakes both sitting and standing to determine the most comfortable, supportive fit. Whether your arch is as lofty as a Gothic cathedral or as flat and glyph-covered as the Rosetta Stone, Colorado Running Company has an impressive variety of famous footwear brands and orthotics from Adidas, Nike, New Balance, Saucony, La Sportiva, Inov-8, Sole Custom Footbeds, Superfeet, Newton Running, and more (starting at $90). For jealous legs, hips, and torsos, Colorado Running Company also stocks an array of athletic apparel (starting at $30), including Skirt Sports running skirts and SUGOi tops.

Endorsed by Orvis as a fly-fishing outfitter, Angler's Covey boasts more than 5,000 square feet of products to equip piscators and fisherpeople with the tools needed to reel in river-dwellers. Step into the lodge-like shop and navigate racks of rods and reels resting atop a floor painted to resemble a winding stream. Angler's Covey carries more than 80 different fly-rod models ($59.99+) from some of the industry's top pole producers—try your new rod or fulfill A River Runs Through It–fueled fantasies in the shop's casting ponds, located just outside of the store. The shop also stocks an impressive collection of flies and ties, along with nets, lines, and other fly-fishing goods.

Independent Records & Video stocks a superb selection of new and used CDs and LPs, DVDs, and games. Invite the eccentric musical stylings of Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two ($9.95) into your eardrums, pick up Jimi Hendrix's recently released posthumous studio album, Valleys Of Neptune ($6.97 used), or pan for gold in stacks of classic and contemporary blues, jazz, electronic, and pop music. To rest eyes weary from searching old copies of National Geographic for photos of giant pinecones, take a look at Independent's stock of movies, which are available on DVD and Blu-ray and span every genre and time period. Classic comedies such as Caddyshack ($9.99) line shelves alongside newer releases that dive deep into unexplored depths of Earth and man (Oceans costs $28.99, season seven of Curb Your Enthusiasm costs $32.99.) Though stock varies in each store, Independent is committed to customer satisfaction and will place a special order at no extra charge.

Relying on a BA in fine art and more than 11 years of experience, Reed Fair left his Chicago home to open 45 Degree Custom Picture Framing with Colorado Springs' mountains as his backdrop. His framery preserves treasured images with more than 1,500 styles of mouldings, more than 1,000 mat options, and eight varieties of glass. Fair holds eco-friendly art-preservation techniques at the top of his priority list, offering visitors 150 mouldings made from wood that is recycled, is sustainable, or has sworn it led a past life as a dining room chair. Guests navigate the roiling ocean of framing options that span modern, antique, and weathered moulds to select the right border for their photo, certificate, or piece of memorabilia. For added convenience, 45 Degree's crew will deliver the finished product free of charge.:m]]

Play It Again Sports, a national franchise, hosts a sports-savvy staff that keeps winter-sports enthusiasts gliding with ski and snowboard waxing and tune-up services. A waxing nets favored planks a thorough cleaning and hand application of universal-temperature wax or, upon request, cold-temperature wax. One of the shop's snow-slicing specialists then carefully smoothes the gear's edges and removes the rough burrs and nascent beards that cause boards to behave unpredictably on the slopes. During a full tune-up, a qualified technician cleans the board, then employs P-Tex candles to repair any surface gouges or holes. Edges are then sharpened, and a final nose and tail de-tuning followed by a hand wax keeps boards from catching too much edge during turns or copping an attitude.