Quick Glühwein at the top. Both times.

It was pretty fast, I flew off the side twice after overshooting the corner. Jule ended up shooting down the piste rather than the path, picked up speed, couldnt slow down and bailed off the sledge with it eventually ending up 50m downhill in a net. :)

The GIFT Project is a new construction process from Salomon which reduces the environmental impact of building a snowboard. Salomon has done away with layers of fibreglass and petroleum based resins and has replaced them with locally sourced structural bamboo sheets. Additionally, bamboo replaces the ABS sidewalls used on traditional board construction. The GIFT project results in a 20% reduction of petroleum based materials, 25% reduction of non-renewable materials and a 10% reduction in board weight.

It is good to see companies really starting to push to think about the life cycles of their products and trying to use less resources. As long as we are not all toast in 2012, (scroll down to 2012 geophysical and cosmological speculations) then we certainly need to start using the planet better than we have.
Actually, besides using up less materials, the weight reduction aspect alone is pretty wicked and the flex of the bamboo looks like it’s got serious pop in this salomon ski video.

Best stop in the tracks moment of the show this year was this sick method.

Westbeach were celebrating 30 years in business, at the Munich ISPO. longevity .

Munich ISPO was as crazy as it usally is with sooo many products, but there was also some really good stuff on display. One of the standouts for me was the Spacejunk art exhibition, and Nicholas Thomas in particular. I have been impressed with his work for years and they had a really big collection at the show which was super cool to see. You may or may not have seen his art over the years on various snowboards.

Yeah, it’s more fun being shitfaced at home than in the metro…  m.

finally… m.