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Nitro snowboarding was created by Marc Frank in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Nitro’s product range consists of snowboards, bindings, boots and soft goods. Over the last 17 years, Nitro has manufactured over 300 different snowboards. |
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Roxy is a company that is owned underneath a company called quiksilver. Roxy started snow wear and snowboarding in 1992 Roxy is a women’s clothing line. Since Roxy is company owned by quiksilver. |
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Roxy and Quiksilver have similar logos. Roxy went by quiksilvers logo up until 1993, when they changed it to a heart shape design. Roxy was originally a surfing company then it went over to snowboarding. |
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Burton snowboarding company was originally founded by Jake Burton in 1977. This company specializes in a broad product line aimed toward snowboarders, and mainlu focus on selling snowboards goggles, eye wear, and accessories. For burton bindings they started utilizing a single channel binding in 2006. But then switched to a two channel. |
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| Now Ride Snowboards lives up to be one of the largest snowboarding manufactures in the United States, and is a leading designer. Ride snowboards focuses on manufacturing snowboards, clothing and related accessories. |
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In 1992-1993 Roger Madison, James Salter, and Tim Pouge, they decided to start a snowboarding company. The idea for the company was mainly Madison's, but Salter and Pogue contributed. |
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Dakine snowboarding industry started in 1993, and was founded by Merek Johnson. Dakines categories vary from snowboarding to surfing but mostly focus on snowboarding. Dakine introduced the Heli Pack, which is designed for back-country snowboarding. The standard Heli pack for technical day packs as well as sports best selling models. |
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| Variables is a company in which they design face protectors. These face protectors are designed for windy days. |
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They are most needed on the lift when they are making snow. These come in handy when backcountry skiing or snowboarding. |
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Chris Owen came across finding this business in 1999. He started it because he wanted to create kinds of snowboards that no one created before. But now they focus on goggles and gloves. There company is called Ettala. |
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Winter Park is a company that manufactures everything, but is a rental. Winter Park is a snowboarding only park in which if you don't have equipment you can pay to rent. |
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They lend out rental snowboards, gloves, helmets, etc. that you can only use at the winter park. This park has been around since about 2001. |
