Skiing has a front-door problem.

A family's first day on snow almost always happens the hardest possible way — at a destination resort, two hours from home, in the cold, after spending a small fortune. It frequently goes badly. And a bad, expensive first day is exactly why most people who try skiing never come back. Shredder is the missing first step: an indoor, year-round, kid-first place to learn close to home — so the first day on the mountain is the good one. We've proven it across 9 locations and 30,000+ kids.

A real on-ramp —
and the mountain wins.

Everything a mountain first-day isn't: indoor, year-round, close to home, built entirely around kids learning to love it.

Every kid who learns to love skiing at Shredder becomes exactly what the whole industry is desperate for: a confident beginner who comes back. We don't compete with the mountain — we fill it. The resorts have spent twenty years trying to fix conversion from the top down. We fix it from the bottom up, at the family level, before the trip ever happens.

Year-round. Six revenue
streams. No kitchen.

Most youth-activity franchises are seasonal and single-line. Shredder runs six revenue streams off the same slope and staff, across the whole calendar — with an operating footprint that's elegantly simple.

Shredder runs six revenue streams off one slope, year-round. This describes the model at a category level only — no earnings claims or projections; franchisee performance information, if any, is in the FDD (Item 19).

The numbers,
and what's left.

Franchise fee	$33,000
Facility buildout & slope	$81K – $130K
Equipment & gear inventory	$60K – $75K
Signage, furniture & office	$13K – $19K
Technology & booking system	Included
Training & launch marketing	$10K – $16K
Insurance, legal & misc	$18K – $24K
Working capital reserve	$35K – $65K
Total Range	$250K – $362K

SBA-eligible

Qualified candidates can finance a significant portion with as little as 10–20% down, through SBA-preferred lenders who know our model.

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Markets are awarded exclusively — one operator, one protected territory. The strongest markets pair family density and income with distance from the mountain: the farther from snow, the more Shredder becomes a family's only path in. The map only moves one way.

Investment ranges reflect Item 7 of our FDD. Actual costs vary by market and operator. Nothing here is a guarantee of any financial result. Full FDD delivered after the intro call.