The Limited-Edition Ski/Splitboard Line Built for a Cause

Springtime in the mountains indicates for a longer time times and a generally extra stable snowpack, building it a extra suitable time to get out and take a look at the backcountry on your skis or snowboard. This period, many thanks to Highly developed Shelter’s collaboration between adventurer and artist Renan Ozturk, along with Åre skis and Wired Snowboards, you can get out there on a new pair of skis or splitboard with some lovely artwork by Ozturk on them. With a hundred per cent of the proceeds supporting Shield Our Winters (POW), these confined-version skis and splitboards are now readily available at advancedshelter.com.

“Advanced Shelter is an experimental inventive alliance that exists for the enjoy of mother nature, artwork, and journey,” claims AS collaborator (and recurrent MJ contributor) Jeremy K. Spencer of the exciting collective looking for to create partners to boost leads to that secure the locations we play. “We’re pushed by a drive to make objects that dovetail artwork and science to empower some of life’s finest experiences—active pursuits outdoors—while preserving our all-natural playground: Earth. The equipment is just one piece of it. Our adventures gasoline the generation of artwork, movie, images, and stories as well, and we’ll see where by the long term normally takes us.”

Started in 2007 by expert snowboarder Jeremey Jones, POW is on a mission to have interaction and mobilize winter sports communities and enthusiasts to enable teach on their own and others about the escalating challenge of climate transform and its destructive impacts on the ecosystem.

The light-weight skis, built by Åre Skis, function a poplar core with carbon fiber and fiberglass layers, aerospace aluminum honeycomb and solid, ultra-light Paulownia wood. The splitboard, handmade by Wired Snowboards, is a real-twin, all-mountain splitboard with common camber and an aspen-wood core, stainless steel inserts, rubber foil damping, state-of-the-artwork urethane sidewall, a Rockwell 48 edge, and sintered IS 7500 foundation.

The artwork on the best sheets of the skis and board is titled Meru, in honor of the mountain by the very same name that Ozturk summited with Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker in 2011—the very first ascent of this particularly difficult and distant peak. “Meru is considered the center of the universe in the Hindu religion,” points out Ozturk, “it’s located at the head of the Ganges River, the holiest river on the earth.”

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