Troy.

I have directed them here. But just think about it for a second, most of the guys I talked to don't make a lot of money. Most wont drop $600-$800 on used gear if they don't even know if they like it; if they even go through the effort of making an account, going to the classifieds, doing research, haggling with people, possibly slow communication, etc. Same thing with loaning gear. It puts the potential customer at an inconvenience, that is the bottom line. I do not see how it could be too much work to have at least one shop at most major resorts to have one shelf of alpine snowboards. They could even brand it as a race or speed or slalom board to get peoples attention who may not know what an alpine snowboard is and brand it as a specialty board.

Recently I traveled up to Park City/ Canyons for nearly 2 weeks of snowboarding and except for nice powder days I rode my alpine board. What I came to realize when taking to people my age (18) and a bit older is that nearly every experienced snowboarder AND skier wants to try alpine snowboarding. And I am not exaggerating when I say around 50 people told me this. But getting into alpine is too much money for them, or any of their friends, to go out on a limb and buy the expensive alpine snowboarding gear. Many of them also said that they would most likely buy one if they could ride it first. Here I have 2 suggestions. First, get your gear on a rental shop on most large mountains and advertise this. Even a few banners and flyers on street poles mixed with a sale is all you need. Also use shorter alpine boards so there is more room for error. Second, actually travel to multiple mountains for half a weak to a week with a pop-up tent, music, display boards, and an option to rent/ buy boards. Also advertise this like above. That is all of my input here. I know I have many fellow snowboarders who would love to ride one of these boards and personally I feel like these options above may be worth a try.

I'm going to be at Park City/ Canyons Christmas week vacationing with family. If anyone is going to be up there just PM me so we don't plan one of our off mountain days when you are there. Thanks.