For David Marchi, skiing down some of the world’s must rugged mountainsides in Alaska, Nepal, India and Indonesia is all in a day’s work.

But starting a business? That’s a real adventure.

A ski-mountaineering guide who leads tours across the world, Marchi is also the owner of Crow’s Feet Commons, an eclectic new shop in the Goodwillie-Allen-Rademacher House, next to Riverfront Plaza in downtown Bend.

Marchi started the business in October, after moving to Bend in late 2010 with his wife, Petit, and newborn son, Talus, now age 3.

Crow’s Feet Commons is a community center mixed with an outdoor store, he said. Customers can find a variety of ski and snowboarding gear in the winter months all the way through June. Come summer, it will take on more of a bike shop feel, complete with custom mountain and road bikes and a service area for maintenance.

The store has a cafe, serving up drinks from Stumptown Coffee Roasters. And a variety of local and regional beers are served, as well.

“This is really kind of an Oregon store,” Marchi said. “With the outdoor gear and the beer and coffee, I think this is a real niche.”

Marchi is confident he can turn around a location that has been on city officials’ radar for years, stemming from police calls over loitering in the nearby plaza area and property tax issues with the previous tenant. He wants Crow’s Feet Commons to be a summer-time starting point for bike tours, and a year-round meeting place for coffee and beer lovers. The biggest long-term challenge Marchi sees is keeping up with the evolving tastes of his customers.

“Bend people are always about the next big thing, so in order to keep the momentum going, I’ll need to sort of keep reinventing the shop,” he said.

Q: How did you get the idea for Crow’s Feet Commons?

A: I’ve had this idea since 1997, when I was in college. Before that, growing up in Mt. Shasta, (Calif.,) I worked in a shop that sold bike and ski gear. In college I worked at a coffee shop, so I kind of came up with the idea of combining them … I came to Bend in 2009 to watch the cyclocross (bicycle race), and decided this would be a good place to move and start my business.

Q: Where do you see the business going from here?

A: I want to grow it into a booking agency for some of the adventure companies in town, as well as for my own adventures. Really, I want it to be this sort of central location for bike tours as well as ski tours. I’m just trying to build this community area where anybody can come down.

Crow’s Feet Commons

What: Crow’s Feet Commons

What it does: Sells bike and ski gear, coffee and beer

Pictured: David Marchi, owner

Where: 875 N.W. Brooks St., Bend

Employees: 8

Phone: 541-728-0066

Web: www.facebook.com/crowsfeetcommons