Every Summer and Winter Fin & Feather sends a team to the bi-annual Outdoor Retailer Trade Show. The goal is to find the newest and best outdoor products to bring to you, the good people of Iowa.Of course it's not all work and no play. This year's Winter show featured an outdoor demo day called Backcountry Base Camp where industry professionals could come try out the latest outerwear, alpine and cross country skis, binding systems, and snowshoes at an Olympic ski resort.
So what technical equipment did we test out? Sleds.
Mountain Boy Sledworks out of Silverton, Colorado let us try out two of their flyer series sleds. Each sled is handmade with a patented turning system that we were told is precise enough for a hockey stop. What we were more interested in was the radar gun clocking the sleds at 35mph.
A one word review: "Awesome." Tight handling and ridiculous speeds made it hard to imagine sledding again without one. Too bad they don't come with their own Olympic snow park.
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