The checklist of essential avalanche emergency equipment has added a crucial item.
Partner? Check.
Avalanche transceiver? Check.
Probe? Check.
Shovel? Check.
ABS® Airbag? Check and double check.
With more and more folks heading out into the backcountry, avalanche safety and awareness have become a prominent part of skiing for many skiers and snowboarders. Avoiding and preventing avalanches are your greatest weapons against avalanche burial, but in the unfortunate case of an avalanche, there has been no innovation that has been proven to prevent more burials than the ABS® Airbag System.
Congratulations to Jesse McCoy on winning ourevo trip to spend 5 days in Japan at the Morino Lodge. This place gets tons of snow, great powder, huge backcountry opportunities + access to hot springs. Jesse and Sean are also getting decked out in gear from Contour, Under Armour,Bern, Oakley, DaKine, Salomon.
No doubt Oregon resident, evo family member and all around great guy Eric Pollard is easily one of the most recognizable athlete/artists in the biz today. His works have been featured throughout the ski industry from signature skis to magazine covers to building a film company, Nimbus Independent with his wife and closest friends. Eric has been a veteran of the ski industry for nearly 10 years now. He is credited to have one of the best styles in skiing still to this day and whether skiing has inspired art or art inspired skiing Eric is and will continue to be in the spotlight of both. Check it out for yourself, his newly updated site ericpollarddesign.com features concept artwork, Line skis graphics both new and old, his custom painted surfboards and some extremely beautiful oil on canvas pieces, some of which are on sale here at evo.
The evo crew was hard at work in Vegas over this past week poking and prodding 2009-2010 product to bring to the shelves for the coming season….aside from being a productive week at the tradeshow, we made sure to check out the bright lights!