Backcountry Experience
The Backcountry Experience exhibit returned to the 2013 SIA Snow Show floor with educational seminars, industry professional appearances, Q & A’s, and the first ever Backcountry Blowout! The exhibit featured over 60 companies, visualizing the story of backcountry to both retailers and media, making it truly an interactive experience.
Today’s backcountry comes in many different shapes and sizes, with everything from lift-accessed backcountry to hut/yurt multi-day adventures. The BC Experience focuses on what it takes to outfit consumers with the best in backcountry hardgoods and accessories while delivering the “Must Know” of safety information and protocol. This gave attendees the chance for backcountry buyers and media to see AT products and splitboards, along with beacons, poles, probes, shovels, skins, backpacks and airbags all in one place.
Backcountry Experience showcased:
- Splitboards/Powder specific (boards, boots, bindings)
- Freeride Backcountry (skis, boots, AT bindings)
- Backcountry Touring (skis, boots, bindings, AT, Tele)
- BC Accessories (beacons, poles, skins, ascension skis, ski crampons, probes, shovels, avalanche bags, packs, etc.)
- Snow Safety/Education
Each day ended with a happy hour and safety seminar which focused on that one thing that makes each backcountry excursion a true experience. . . POWDER! Whether splitboarding, alpine touring, skiing or hiking a boot pack, once you step beyond the boundaries, you are on your own. Knowledge and equipment went hand in hand here. Each day our backcountry experts were on-hand to share their insight on topics such as: Proper Route Finding, Gear Selection, Beacon Basics, and Avalanche Warning Signs.
Events Included:
| Thursday, January 31 |
| 12P |
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Project Zero 2025 – A New Vision for Avalanche Safety and the Snow Sports Industry
Presented by: Tom Murphy, AIARE |
| 1:30P |
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Business of the Backcountry: How Gear, Technology, and Increased Participation In Backcountry Travel Are Evolving
Moderated by: Verde PR & Consulting |
| 4:30P |
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Steep Life Protocols
Presented by: Dean Cummings |
| 5:30P |
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Splitboard Conversion Challenge
Sponsored by: Venture Snowboards and Ska Brewing |
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| Friday, February 1 |
| 10A |
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Project Zero 2025 – A New Vision for Avalanche Safety and the Snow Sports Industry
Presented by: Tom Murphy, AIARE |
| 12P |
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The “Human Factor” in the Backcountry
Presented by: Donny Roth |
| 2P |
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Project Zero 2025 – A New Vision for Avalanche Safety and the Snow Sports Industry
Presented by: Tom Murphy, AIARE |
| 5P |
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Meet Jeremy Jones |
| 5:30P |
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Backcountry Blowout! - Join us in the SIA Backcountry Experience for the first ever Backcountry Blowout.
Come celebrate with your friends, your bros and maybe even a few pros. You’ll be surrounded in the latest backcountry products, we’ll be showing some films and we’ll be high-fiving until the FREE beer is gone!
Sponsored by: SIA |
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| Saturday, February 2 |
| 12P |
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Steep Life Protocols
Presented by: Dean Cummings |
2013 Participants:
Arbor
Arc’teryx
ARVA
Atlas
Atomic
Backcountry Access, Inc
Bent Metal
Bergans of Norway
Black Diamond
Blizzard
Burton
Cheetah Factory Racing
Dakine
Deuter USA
DPS SKIS
Dynafit
Dynastar
Fischer
Flow
G3
H2O Outdoor Gear
HEAD |
Jones Snowboards
K2 Snowboards
Kastle
Kerma
La Sportiva
Lange
Lazer Sport
Lib Tech
Liberty Skis
Line Skis
Madshus
Mammut
Mervin Manufacturing
MFD
MTN Approach
Never Summer Industries
Nitro Snowboards
Orion Packs
Otovox USA
Outdoor Research
OZ Snowboards
Patagonia |
Pieps
POC
Pomoca
Prior Skis and Snowboards
Recco
Rome Snowboard Design Syndicate
Rossignol
Rossignol Snowboards
Rottefella
Salomon Snowboards
SCARPA
Scott Sports
Spark R&D
Swix
Tecnica
The North Face
Tubbs Snowshoes
TYROLIA
Unity Snowboards
Venture Snowboards
Voile
Volkl |
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