Gnu Billy Goat C2BTX Split Board
Temple’s Freeride Tool!

+ Splitboard
+ C2 BTX Banana Camber Combo with Magnetraction
+ Directional Twin
+ Asner Sheet Dampening
+ Mervin BA Sustainable Woodcore
+ Sintered Base
+ Flex 8

Art By: Adam Haynes

Burton Freebird Split BoardSplit open and melt.

There’s only one first chair, and patrol owns it. Leave behind the cattle herd in the liftline. Save yourself the hassle of the sled and the gold card crowd with their cats and helis. Seek solitude and an untracked canvas with the Freebird – the latest advancement in splitboards. Rising to the top with S-Rocker™, tapered shaping, and Side Effects for enhanced floatation, the Freebird is more than just a choice; it’s a way of life.

Features
+ Gondola Package
+ BEND: S-Rocker
+ SHAPE: Directional [7MM Taper]
+ FLEX: Directional
+ CORE: Super Fly II™ Core with Dualzone™ EGD™
+ FIBERGLASS: Triax™
+ BASE: Sintered
+ SIDEWALLS: 10:45™
+ EXTRAS: Side Effects, Pro-Tip™, and Infinite Ride™
Interface, Skins, and Crampons Sold Separately Through www.voile-usa.com

Diecut Base Color Combinations May Vary

Sizes:
158cm (253 WW)
162cm (255 WW)

Feel: 5
K2 Panoramic Splitboard Kit

WALK AWAY AND FIND A NEW VIEWPOINT.

The Panoramic is your ticket to the drop out and hike out mindset. Three years in the making our developers brought it all to this lightweight, Bambooyah™ cored backcountry tool. No half stepped plain graphics either. Keeping it core and true to snowboarding in every way.
Top tear tech:
All Terrain Rocker®
Bambooyah™
Hybrilight™

Detail tech:
Baseline: All Terrain Rocker®
Damping: Standard
Construction: Hybrilight™
Shape: Hyper Progressive
Stance: Setback 1″ (25mm)
Core: Bambooyah™ Blend WH4
Glass: Triax / ICG 20
Additives: Carbon Web™ II
Base: 4000 Sintered
Base Bevel: 1°
Lib Tech Travis Rice T.Rice Pro Split C2BTX HP Snowboard
TRAVIS RICE’S ULTRALIGHT HORSEPOWER CONSTRUCTION SPLIT BOARDS. LIGHTER IS FASTER AND EASIER!

+ C2BTX Power Banana & Magne-Traction
+ Split board hole pattern. No drill or saws required!
+ Karakoram premium clips and latches.
+ Twin geometries
+ Horsepower construction (All basalt, no fiberglass!)
+ Columbian Gold core
+ Ultra light for easy climbing
+ Solid ride for big lines
+ Bio beans sparkle top sheet
+ Flex: 7

Join Ken “Skindog” Collins tour of the 2013 Sacramento Pre SIA winter sports show. Watch and learn how to deal with life today!

Danny’s Favorite Twin Freestyle Banana!

+ C2 BTX Banana Camber Combo with Magnetraction
+ Twin Geometries
+ Mervin AG2 Sustainable Woodcore
+ Quasi Glass
+ Sintered Base
+ Flex 6-7 Depending On Size

Art By: Jeremy Fish

Limited Gnu Jamie Anderson Ladies Choice from GNU on Vimeo.
Announcing a new GNU women’s model snowboard designed and developed by Jamie Anderson!

Jamie has been testing this board all spring and has dialed it up, even some podiums on this board already!

Featuring a Pickle-Tech construction, this will surely be a hit as the regular pickle has been a hit with the ladies.
This feature a lot of the same upgrades you see in the riders choice from the regular pickle.
Custom shape and design from Jamie and the R+D team, light and strong materials, and a slightly less pickle-tech on the heelside than the regular pickle.

We are stoked to have Jamie on our team representing GNU = a new pro model GNU snowboard!
Sizes are
148.5
151.5

Why wait, come on in now for the best selection and lowest prices on the previous years ski and snowboard equipment. The Laborday week end sale will be in the parking lot Saturday, Sunday and Monday so shopping will be easier on that weekend, but if you have he time, stop in anytime to shop because the mark downs are already in effect. Check out older small and medium snowboard bindings for free with the purchaceof any new 2012 Snowboard. The some small bindings are on sale for 70% off. See ya here.

Eric is the very lovable tech rep from Mervin Manufacturing for the northern Calfornia area. We make him do product reviews for our youtube channel. This is classic Eric at his best, I just turned on the camera and let him get in trouble all by himself…I didn’t have the heart to tell him that Ken had all ready created most of the Lib product reviews a month earlier…So enjoy the out takes….he makes me laugh..thanks Eric for the laughs.

Boxes For Days event Jan 16 Summit at Snoqualmie from Andrius Simutis on Vimeo.

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Subject: BOXES FOR DAYS* – THE TOUR!

Lib-Tech and Gnu Snowboards bring you Boxes for Days* – a ridiculously fun event involving a lot of boxes! – The Tour

Mervin Mfg has teamed up with longtime cohorts Snowboy Productions to bring Boxes for Days to the masses…with stops at The Summit at Snoqualmie, Boreal Mountain Resort, Waterville Valley and a super-misty stop somewhere in Japan!

The simple concept is to take normal park boxes and arrange them one after another to create an abnormal, tremendously difficult, yet ridiculously fun to ride Super-Box.

“It’s kinda like Voltron” says event creator Krush Kulesza “except there aren’t any robots.”

The tour teams up with some highly respected resorts in it’s first year with the park crews at each resort looking to raise the bar at each stop.

“It’s never the same event twice…it’s gonna be bananas!” says Mervin’s Pete Saari.

Speaking of bananas…each stop will award one deserving shred the official Slippery Banana award for box riding prowess along with a ton of great prizes given out in RANDOM DISPLAYS OF RADNESS from our great sponsors, including Lib Tech, Gnu, Snowboarder Magazine, Think Thank and COAL.

This event is BEYOND FREE. Meaning that in addition to no entry fee, every entrant will receive a free year’s subscription to Snowboarder Magazine and the first 50 will receive a free event T-shirt…you are almost being paid to go to this event!

Boxes For Days* – A ridiculously fun event involving a lot of boxes! – The Tour is made possible by Lib Technologies, Gnu Snowboards, Think Thank, Snowboarder Magazine, COAL , Snowboard Connection, Porter’s Tahoe and Eastern Boarder.

Summit at Snoqualmie – Jan 15 / Boreal Mountain Resort – Jan 22 / Super-misty Japan Stop – Feb 5 / Waterville Valley – Apr 2

We need to educate the market to understand that our Banana contours are dynamic (flexible and moving) and not static like a surfboard (no flex). Higher Banana actually tends to add stability in a snowboard. It will be a hard concept to grasp for most people for many years to come.

A higher Banana distributes more pressure to the central(straighter) portion of the sidecut, which gives stability at speed. The nose and tail of a board is where the sidecut flares out and can be twitchy if there is too much pressure on the snow(remember the dangerous twitch of cambered boards in the dark ages). Contrary to popular myth, Banana does not cause a board to teeter-totter, it actually redistributes your foot pressure to better portions of the board than antique camber was capable of. We actually tested a very, very stiff and high Banana(too stiff) on our pressure mapping machine a couple of years ago and learned that when stood on by a 150lb rider, it still had a surprising amount of pressure driving into the snow at the nose and tail. And this wasn’t even a C-2.

Our boards with higher Banana have also displayed the ability to glide a little faster than traditional camber or lower Banana contours. We attribute this, once again, to the straightest part of the sidecut(between your feet) having a higher percentage of the pressure distribution. Test a Magic on a flat cat track and you’ll see the raw racing ability at 3 miles per hour. Leave your camber-loving bretheren in your wake!

The Cygnus has won every test(4 at last count) it’s been in with comments about “mad pop” and high speed stability. The Cygnus and Magic have our highest Bananas. The proofs in the pudd’n, but it is something to think about when trying to understand the dynamics of Banana contours.

No magazine has shown a real understanding of Banana stability verses camber in the preseason equipment articles every year. I guess it is our job to better educate them.

The good news is that we have many future years of design aspects to talk about to retailers, magazines and snow-riding-people. Our future will be dynamic and exciting.

This is a great event to end the season, Thank-you Matt and the gang from “The Red Dawn” for another good time. See you all this next year at the Shop Battle.

Check out the latest design from Merivn manuacturing the Gnu Forest Bailey Pcychadelic Park Pickle, get yours at Shoreline of Tahoe