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Location: Winter Park, CO Snow Conditions: Hardpacked to softpacked groomers. Setup: I rode the Arbor Swoon with NOW IPO bindings and Vans Ferra boots size 8. Size: 155cm. First Impression: Offering up easy all mountain riding that you can count on. Weight: Average. Flex:  The Swoon fits the medium flex description to a T. It’s [...]

It’s pretty fun to come to Winter Park when the industry takes over the resort, the base is filled with friends from different companies and there are good times on and off the snow. Last night I enjoyed the Mervin party for the last party of the SIA Snow show and had a later start [...]

After four days of being at the SIA Tradeshow in Denver, getting back into snow boots and hitting the slopes always feels great! We headed up to Winter Park last night for a good nights sleep night during SIA (very rare) and hit the slopes early this morning for the on-snow portion. Tons of companies [...]

If there’s one vacation I have to take each year, it’s to the SIA Tradeshow.  It has all the components of a vacation: flight, hotel, dinners, drinks but it’s a lot of hard work jammed packed into 4 days of fun inside and 2 days of fun outside.  The best part about SIA is the [...]

I had heard that the second day of the on-snow was supposed to be cold but negative temperatures are beyond cold.  Negative 10-15 degrees was hard to deal with on the mountain but it was sunny and a good day to demo more boards despite the weather.  I stayed out from 9am to 4pm demo’ing [...]

It feels really good to get out of my shoes after 4 days of tradeshow and back into the snowboard boots for the on-snow portion of SIA.  It’s the chance to take the new gear to the snow and see what you think about it.  I arrived in Winter Park the night before, got a [...]

What a long week it’s been, SIA and then the on-snow, then the death cough…well I’m finally getting back to blog business and thinking about the on-snow demos, writing the reviews up and getting ready to post them starting next week. SIA is really the time to see all the products but I always wait [...]

Tuesday was the final and last day of the on snow session but luckily blue skies arrived for a fun day outside to ride some new decks.  Despite the sickness starting to impact me, I made it up for most of the day to get my shred on. Today’s boards were Roxy Ollie Pop c2 [...]

Normally there’s a bit of a gap between SIA and the on-snow but this year they held the on-snow for Colorado in conjunction with the show so it was directly following the 4 days of busyness.  I made my way up on Sunday with Joey to Winter Park where we would be staying slopeside in [...]