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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, [...]

Each year the crew from Mervin’s Denver office takes to A-Basin for a day on snow with drinks, BBQ and games.  Once I knew the date, I marked it off on my calendar and planned for the day off from work to come enjoy the festivities with friends.  I made my way into Denver last [...]

If you are remotely near Portland today, it’s your chance to win a 09-10 Lib Tech Skate Banana compliments of Shayboarder and Mervin Manufacturing.  All you have to do is track me down when I put out twitter clues at 4pm that will help you find my location in Portland, Oregon.  All it takes is [...]

In June, I did a successful Birthday twitter giveaway where people tracked me down with twitter clues and the first person who found me won an 09-10 Never Summer Circuit-R snowboard. People mentioned how great it would be to have that same giveaway in other cities that I traveled to, so I set out in [...]

If there is one binding for the big mountain man it’s Bent Metal bindings, putting the metal back in snowboarding.  For 09-10, they cleaned up the line and removed the biscuit and step in binding models bringing back the Missionary and Restraint built to be tough, rough and lightweight. Bent Metal The Missionary Features:  Dual [...]

Shay: What is your job title? Kyre: Snowboard Hardgoods Product Manager for Roxy Shay: What was your first set up? Kyre: Burton Elite 135 with the slot for a metal fin, of which I was convinced, would have helped me turn (while I was learning) if I would have just had one. Bindings were the [...]

My last day at A-Basin happened to be on Mervin Day which was a lot of fun to partake in with theBBQ, snowboarding and pond skimming.   Here’s my write up on the day and from the video it looks like I missed out on swimsuit Dan taking the plunge many times in the icy [...]

It was a much needed ride day before the family arrives in town for my surgery, so I headed to A-Basin to finally end the season there.  It was great timing since today the Lib Tech Denver office peeps were having their end of season shred party on the mountain which is always a good [...]

I can always count on the BMB forums to give their honest opinion, usually it’s not the nicest but it’s always honest. They recently had a good point that when I reviewed the Lib Tech Dark C2 I didn’t compare it to the BTX version. I figured this would be a good time to discuss [...]

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 [...]