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Job Title: VP Marketing and Creative Employer: Mervin MFG Years on snow: Started on skis when I was 5 Days on snow: Never quite enough Currently Riding: Gnu Park Pickle Currently I am: Still getting better Photo:  Tim Zimmerman Shay: Tell us a little bit about yourself Pete: I like long walks on the beach, [...]

Easy in, easy out – that’s the motto behind GNU when it comes to developing snowboard bindings.  Over the past couple years GNU has entered into the backdoor of binding design with bindings that are very simple and straightfoward.  Make it easier to get into and get out of.  All the dirty connotations set aside, [...]

Inside Mervin Manufacturing’s umbrella lies GNU Snowboards, handbuilt in the US by snowboarders with jobs and designed for snowboarders who rip pow, parks and pipes.  Both the GNU women’s and men’s line-up is dialed with models that work for a variety of riders featuring a variety of technology from straight up BTX for the park [...]

Location: Mammoth, CA Snow Conditions: Mixture of soft packed groomers to choppy powder to deeper powder. Setup: I rode the GNU Riders Choice with my Union bastardized bindings and Vans Veil Boots size 8. Size: 154.5cm. First Impression: C2BTX does the Riders Choice good. Weight: tad heavier than average. Flex: The Riders Choice is meant [...]

Under the Mervin Manufacturing umbrella, GNU Snowboards are handbuilt in the US by snowboarders and ride the parks, pipes and pow by snowboarders.  GNU continues to bring environmental practices to their snowboards with their bioplastic topsheets, sustainable woodcores, on-site recycling and 100% vegan. For 10-11, C2BTX is added to two new boards in the line [...]

Location: Loveland, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to icy conditions on the mountain. Setup: I rode the GNU Street Series with my Force SL bindings and Bonfire Geo boots. Size: 154cm. First Impression: Definitely a jib stick that I’d keep in the park, I wasn’t sure it there was magne traction on the board either. Weight: [...]

Location: Steamboat, Colorado (and 1 run at Canyons, UT) Snow Conditions: Overcast with hardpacked groomers to new snow on runs Setup: I rode the GNU agro bindings with the Automaton Time Fighter and my Rome Vamp size 8 boots. Time to set up the binding: I borrowed these bindings so I set them up myself, [...]

This review was done through Board Insiders and will be featured on their site as a review with video of me explaining the board and riding it. I’ll update this link to that when it goes live. Location: Stevens Pass, Washington Snow Conditions: Snowing with powder on runs, some groomed areas. Setup: I rode the [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Bluebird with hardpacked snow. Setup: I rode the GNU Park Pickle with Union Forces and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: The heelside edge is an improvement, I was skeptical as this behind marketing hype but it does make your heelside carves less effort. Size: 156cm Weight: average Flex: [...]

Location: Keystone, Colorado Snow Conditions: Bluebird with hardpacked groomers. Setup: I rode the GNU B-PRO C2 with Union Forces and my Rome Vamps size 8. First Impression: I liked this ride a lot better than when I rode the dark with C2, I think the detuning improved it for me a lot more. Size: 152cm [...]