SIA is working with REI stores in Northern Virginia and Maryland to host the Winter Feels Good Pavilion and Snowshoe Park that will be a interactive feature of the National Ski and Snowboard Expo this weekend – November 11-13, 2005 – at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA. This is the second year that the Expo has presented the Pavilion and Snowshoe Park and the first time that REI is hosting the attraction.
Atlas, Mountain Safety Research, Redfeather and Tubbs snowshoes will be represented at the park and show participants will be able to try snowshoeing on an indoor surface that will be set up on the exhibit floor. These four companies are founding sponsors for Winter Trails, an annual event scheduled for January 7, 2006 that allows children and adults new to snow sports to try snowshoeing and/or cross country skiing at nearly 100 venues in the U.S. and Canada. Winter Trails has become one of the largest “introduction to snow sports” programs in the snow sports industry.
Also featured in the Winter Feels Good Pavilion are additional sponsors for Winter Trails including W.L. Gore and Associates, Columbia Sportswear, Sorel, Manzella gloves, Nature Valley granola bars, Alpina, Atomic, Exel, Fischer, Karhu, Rossignol, Salomon, Swix, Whitewoods, Cross Country Skier magazine, Snowshoe magazine, Ski Trax magazine and XCSkiresorts.com.
