Come check out Never Summer's second School Girl vs. Nerds party where the dudes gotta dress nerdy and the ladies have to dress like, uhhh...you know, school girls! The first one was a ridiculously good time, had awesome costumes, great music and a packed club. This one should be even better. Everyone is invited, even if they don't ride NS snowboards or longboards although you'd be more rad if you did. Drink specials will include FREE well, wine & draft from 9-11pm, then $2 PBR's after that. INSANE. See ya Tuesday 24th at Sutra in Denver!

The secret is out! Never Summer is stoked to present its all new, ‘Recurve Camber’ with ‘Vario Power Grip’ side-cut for 08/09. Rather than launching a different deck altogether, our extensive testing has led us to drive this insanely fun and functional technology into much of our existing lineup. This consists of SL, Legacy, Evo, Infinity and Revolver models...just adding an ‘R’ at end of names, and completely replacing the older versions. This Patent Pending technology will feature two cambered areas from the feet out toward the tip and tail and rockered under foot...giving riders crazy good response, power, pop, and stability that is NOT seen in other rockers!

The new side-cut, ‘Vario Power Grip’, combines both deep and shallow radius to give unmatched response and edge hold like nothing else on the market. As if the technology isn’t enough to offer, we also managed to take a 1/4 to 1/2 pound off the previous year models making them some of the lightest boards anywhere! And don’t worry, we’re still standing behind our product with the only 3 year warranty in the industry. Check out your local NS dealer for the new product in September ‘08!

On Tuesday I got invited to cruise down to Taos with the guys from Never Summer for the opening day for snowboarding. I didn’t realize it, but Taos is only about a 5 hour drive from Denver. We were pumped to check out a new area and get out of the city for a couple days.

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Get a taste of the good life. Check out our 06/07 boards at a resort near you!

Nov 11,12, 14 & 15 - Loveland, CO
Nov 18 - Copper, CO
Dec 2 & 3 - Keystone, CO
Dec 9 - Winter Park, CO
Dec 10 - Steamboat, CO
Dec 10 - Brianhead, UT
Dec 12 & 13 - Brighton, UT
Dec 14 - Park City, UT
Dec 16 - Telluride, CO
Dec 16 - Targhee, WY
Dec 17 - Monarch, CO
Dec 17 - Jackson Hole, WY
Dec 27 - Echo Mountain, CO

Read about the Never Summer Factory Tour

Visit Never Summer Snowboards

Never Summer is a company started in Colorado by brothers Tracey and Tim Canaday. They have been at it for some 15 years and make without a doubt some of the most durable boards in existance, using ptex sidewalls and 5 layers of fiberglass in the layup process. (Most companies use only two layers of fiberglass and abs sidewalls to save cost and make it easy to keep things light). They stand behind all of their boards with a full 3 year warranty.

Recently Jeff Baker and I had a chance to tour their 16000 square foot production facility in Denver where the boards are produced.

One of the things that sets Never Summer Apart is that they mill their own cores. Tracey actually has two computer controlled core milling machines to taper the core thickness for the appropriate flex. There are only a couple other core machines in all of North America.

The boards are assembled in a production line with with each step of the process handled by a different person. First the base and edges are set in metal cassette.

The boards work their way down the line, adding epoxy resin, layers of fiberglass, the woodcore, more epoxy, more fiberglass, high tech graphite and kevlar and finally the topsheet at different stations before they reach the press which compresses the materials together while heating them to cure the epoxy resin.

After the boards come out of the press, a finisher grinds off the excess epoxy that was squeezed out of the board during the pressing procedure.

Finally all of the boards are checked for quality both structurally and cosmetically before moving into the warehouse room. This is Tracey Canaday, with this years production- literally thousands of brand new, ready to ship Never Summer snowboards.

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NEVER SUMMER LAUNCHES 05/06 WEBSITE

Go to www.neversummer.com and check the latest gear from the Denver,
Colorado based independent manufacturer. Once again the rider owned &
operated company offers their unheard of 3 yr warranty on their already
durable boards and has added two more models to the line up; the mid-wide
Titan TX and the Revolver, a mid-wide pipe & park destroyer.

Also, as one of the few remaining snowboard facilities left in the U.S.,
Never Summer is proud to give factory tours to anyone interested, whether