Conde Nast Traveler's
Daily Traveler blog has the scoop on next season's skis, snowboards and winter gear from the
2013 SIA Snow Show in Denver.
Excerpt:
While snowboard stalwarts like Burton and LibTech continue to push the envelope with innovations in camber and sidecut, a new breed of bespoke manufacturers are stepping in with handcrafted boards that not only match the technology being pumped out by those big dogs, but offer innovation and inspiration only a small-batch board manufacturer can produce. Case in point: [Minturn's]
Weston Snowboards Beetle Kill. This full rocker board is made of poplar and beetle-kill pine for a smooth all-mountain ride. What is beetle-kill pine, you ask? Higher temperatures in the Colorado Rockies have allowed the mountain pine beetle to decimate whole hillsides of lodgepole pines, leaving in their wake forests of dead trees. Weston Snowboards harvests that wood for their flagship board making the best out of a bad situation.
Read the rest
here.
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