Second Summit Opens as a San Francisco Consignment Shop for Used Outdoor Gear
Founder Jeffrey Conocenti opened the shop after leaving a construction-engineering job following a 13-day John Muir Trail thru-hike. It sells used camping, climbing, cycling and ski equipment.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Colorful Victorian houses on a sunny street in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Photo: Nicolas Lannuzel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Second Summit, a new San Francisco consignment shop for used camping, climbing, cycling and ski equipment, was founded by Jeffrey Conocenti after he left a construction-engineering job, the San Francisco Standard reported.
Conocenti said the idea took shape after a 13-day thru-hike of the John Muir Trail, a 211-mile trek from Yosemite Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney. "I didn't love what I was doing," he said of his former job. "But I didn't really know what I wanted to do." That was two years ago. "I always found that there was a gap in the market for a store like Second Summit," he told the Standard.
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