The GNU Park Pickle

At the North American sales meeting for Gnu Snowboards, plans for the GNU Park Pickle were unveiled. The Patent Pending Proprietary Park Pickle Product will be included in the 09/10 Gnu Snowboard line. Based on the idea that heelside turns require more leverage than toeside turns, the Park Pick will have a deeper sidecut on the heelside. The board is a true twin shape with a centered stance so it can be ridden with either goofy or regular and includes Mervin Mfg’s exclusive use of Banana Technology.

Flash Back the 1990′s Santa Cruz had a similar designated heel side design…..Can any body remember what they called it?  not me My brain is fried….

Pete Saari, VP of Marketing at Mervin had this to say. “The Park Pickle achieves perfect balance through asymmetry, a deeper sidecut and asymmetric core on the heel edge balances your foots asymmetry and the different turn mechanics between heel and toe turns. Twin Asymmetric Banana Magnetraction design is the future of all terrain freestyle performance snowboards. Pickle Power!”

A limited run of 300 Park Pickles for North America will be built and released for sale to select Authorized Gnu Dealers in mid December. (from snowboard-mag.com)

Shoreline has at least ten coming in Sooooooooon

Dakine Sequence Pack is designed for photographers, If you want to get out in the wild, shoot the million dollar shot, this is the back park for you! Shoreline of Tahoe has had many of the local professional Photographers buy this pack and reported back to us how much they like it. Dakine Sequence back pack continues to bring back the shot.

The Heavenly Comet Terrain Park is well worth it, Heavenly can make snow, and that’s what it takes to have a great park. I ran into Bill Killebrew in the post office today, Bill and his family owned Heavenly when I first moved to tahoe in 1981, that was the year that Tahoe didn’t see any snow until January 27 Heavenly open up on the 28th, from that point on Heavenly, invested in Snowmaking. It was Bill who took charge early on before any of the other mountains saw the importance in having the power to blow snow. On the east coast and Midwest snowmaking was already the norm because the hills were small and the storms infrequent. Many out west thought Heavenly was crazy to try to run miles of pipes to blow snow all over the mountain….it was way to big!, So today I thanked Bill for buying all that snow making equipment, and as you can see in this vid clip Joanna is pretty thankful too…