2013 Gnu Forest Bailey Strange Trip Snowboard: Forest’s Strange Trip Pickle. Forest Bailey has been on a long strange trip snowboarding and skateboarding things that were designed to be ridden. We built him his own Pickled Banana to ride through the many kinks along the way. Forests Pickle is designed around progressive freestyle and modern duck stances in all terrain. He took it to Mt. Hood and beat every other pro in the Snowboarder Magazine America’s Next Top Pro Model high ollie contest this year. Banana out pops camber! Banana Rocker between your feet for pop, catch free riding and unreal float in powder. Magne-Traction for fantastic edge hold on steel, concrete, ice and snow. Asymmetric sidecuts to balance the different turning mechanics required for toe-side and heel-side turns. Asymmetric eco wood core designs to allow the board to flex into a deeper heel-side sidecut at the low but powerful heel- side turning angles and add stability to precisely controlled toe side board manipulations. Forests Pickle balanced asymmetric pickle makes snowboarding easy…you can watch it work with Forest in “Given Too”.

• Board Tech

• Handbuilt in the USA

• Every Gnu is handmade by snowboarders with jobs in the USA.

• Balance Thru Asymmetry

• Asymmetric sidecuts and construction to balance the different

• turning mechanics required for heel side turns and toe side turns. Your
• body is asymmetric, your snowboard should be asymmetric.

• PBTX

• All terrain rocker placed specifically between your feet where

• it belongs. Full tip-to-tail edge contact when you stand on your board
• for all terrain performance. Banana Tech is easy to ride, rips the
• hardpack and ice, kills the jibs and floats unbelievably. Bananas!

• Sintered Base

• Compression hardened amorphous UHMW skived from the billet to

• create the toughest, fastest, best wax holding base material around.
• Slides best and fastest when waxed regularly to match local snow
• conditions.

• Magne-Traction

• “Turns ice into powder”
  

• Serrated edges give great edge hold all over the mountain especially on hard pack and blue ice!

• Asym. Toeside and Heelside Specific Sidecuts

• Toe side: More finesse through your toes and

• precise fingertip like edge control. Increased angle of edge attack can
• be achieved through cumulative articulation of toe, ankle and knee
• joints. Balance.

• Heelside: More power through the heels. A lower

• angle of edge attack and more power can be achieved due to natural joint
• mechanics. Stomp.

• Asym. Mervin AG / Aspen Core

• ASYM. MERVIN AG/ASPEN SUSTAINABLE WOODCORE: ASPEN / ALT. GENETICS / EISS 9
  

• - Lighter / Stronger. A perfect combination of Aspen, even more ultra
• lightweight genetically altered wood core and EISS 9. Perfect for
• freestyle domination.

• Wood Core Weirdness!
  

• In 2009 the world’s fastest growing trees in the Gnu Eco Timber farm
• benefited from a combination of moist evenings, diffused daylight
• sunshine and being on the north American avian flyway…abundant natural
• nitrogen from goose and duckdroppings resulted in a exceptional harvest
• of long fibered lightweight poppy woods that we call “nature’s
• fiberglass”. This very exceptional crop has been carefully seasoned and
• built into cores and is the light poppy center of our 2012 Gnu
• Snowboards.

MERVIN MANUFACTURING: WORLD’S MOST ENVIRONMENTAL SNOWBOARD FACTORY!
Mervin has been building snowboards every day for over 25 years. From the beginning, we’ve been a very environmentally aware snowboard factory. Founders, Mike Olson and Pete Saari both spent many years hand-building snowboards themselves and wanted their shop to be as healthy and easy on them, their crew and the environment as possible.


We currently have an environMental division headed up by Norm Nelson and Mike Olson. It’s their passion to stay on the front lines with our green efforts. We use the safest epoxy resin systems available, with minimal VOC’s. We use no solvents in the factory, but instead use citrus based cleaners… our shop does not stink! For years , we have used fast-growing farmed wood for our wood cores.