Mervin Manufacturing partners with gateway parks, and releases special edition Lib Tech Gateway, and GNU Gateway snowboards!

Mervin Manufacturing via Lib Tech and Gnu have teamed up with Gateway Parks to help make snowboarding more accessible with their special edition series of Gateway snowboards including the Lib Tech Gateway BTX and the Gnu Gateway Pickle PBXT. Each purchase of a Lib Tech and Gnu Gateway snowboard supports the ‘ride where you reside’ concept, and comes with a free Weekday Warrior pass to Gateway resorts, and a portion of the board sales goes directly to helping to build the Gateway Parks program.

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“We are stoked on the Gateway Parks because they not only will they give kids an affordable and accessible way to ride near where they reside, it will also make snowboarding more accessible to people that have never ridden before. It is going to be a game changer in both the progression of snowboarding and bringing new people into the lifestyle of snowboarding and snow sports in general.”  says Dan McNamara VP of Sales for Mervin Manufacturing.

Gateway Parks is on the forefront of creating urban shred oasis’ from currently existing city parks. With their initial project Hawk Island, in Lansing Michigan, they brought North America the first urban terrain park that operates a rope tow! Gateway has plans to develop additional parks including; Alpine Hills in Rockford, Illinois, the Eagle Sports Complex to be built just outside of Boise, ID, as well as long term plans to expand to other areas around the country. Bob Holme, Gateway Parks Marketing and Business Development says this of the partnership “Gateway Parks aims to re-inject the passion, fun, value, and the ease of snow sports for communities around the country. The concept is easy to understand, but committing to changing an industry is not. Mervin got it from our first conversation and has helped fine-tune the vision ever since.”  To view the Gateway Parks program, future parks, or to contact them about the possibility of parks in your local area check out gatewayparks.com

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The Gnu Gateway Pickle PBTX and Lib Tech Gateway BTX are perfectly crafted for urban shredding in your local area, or going the distance to freeride! Both board models are available in retail stores and online now at Lib-tech.com  or Gnu.com.

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Mervin Manufacturing home of Lib Tech, GNU, and Bent Metal is a leading designer and manufacturer of snowboarding, NASing, surfing and skateboarding products built at the world’s most environMENTAL factory by people who ride them. Mervin Manufacturing was founded by snowboarders Mike Olson and Pete Saari in 1977. In an industry where virtually every other snowboard, ski, skateboard, and surfboard company has moved production to China or offshore, Mervin is the longest running and last major board building factory in the USA. Based out of Carlsborg, Washington, between the rugged Olympic and Cascade Mountain Ranges, Mervin is a direct link between riding and manufacturing.

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