On the road in North America

Well we have just wrapped up a busy week at the Outdoor Retailer tradeshow in Salt Lake City, Utah. We've presented the new Winter 2012 line to about 35 stores as well as meeting up with various magazines including one of the USA's most well known publications 'Outside'

At the same time, some of the worst winter storms to have hit the North-West have been doing their best to wipe away one of the worst starts to the American ski season in decades as more than 50 inches of snow have been deposited across the Rockies and Cascades in the past five days.

And so, leaving our US team of Craig and Woody to it, for a week or so, as they headed off to another tradeshow in Denver, I jumped in the car and headed North, destination Jackson Hole, Wyoming in search of the POW.

The first challenge was working how best to be there and with the 8000ft Teton Pass closed due to numerous avalanches, it was the 5hr trip along the winding roads through the wilds of Wyoming that was our preferred route. All was clear until we reached Bridger National Forest, at which point we hit the next winter storm rattling across the Rockies. It was a very lonely hour or two through the rolling uplands, with only the occasional passing snowplough for company.