We’re here in La Clusaz, France for the 2020 Rock On Snow Pro, where retailers from France, UK, Switzerland and Belgium come to test snowboarding products before placing their orders. Despite a lack of snowfall in recent weeks, the pistes are in good shape for testing and after lunchtime the snow softened up. Here’s our images from day one. Photos by SOURCE Editor Harry Mitchell Thompson.
Rock On Snow Pro, La Clusaz 2020Rock On Snow Pro 2020Rock On Snow Pro, La Clusaz 2020 Serge Dupraz and Gus from the Board Basement (UK)686's Pacome in their 2020:21 NASA collab Thermagraph jacket686's Brent Sandor with the Gigi Ruf pro model jacket and glove. The Weapon 3 in 1 jacket, 30% more breathable than any other jacket on the market made with 93% recycled plastic bottles and the Recon mitt686's Pacome Allouis showing their collab with Dragon on the Gore-Tex Hydra down Thermagraph jacket and Dragon's PXV goggle. Nidecker's Thierry Kunz and 686's Pacome AllouisBataleon's Rubby Kierbert with their all new Thunder, their gateway drug for retailers.Bataleon's Rubby Kiebert with the Camel Two. A more aggressive looking piste thwacker that'll also go good guns in the pow pow. Burton's Dan Chrichton with Anna Smyth (Sputnik, UK) and The Snowboard Shop's Darren WilliamsBurton movie screeningCAPITA boys Will & Jack. Will with the Kazu Pro and Jack with the Indoor Survival and Union Strata bindingLunch queueLa ClusazNitro's Drias Venken and Jonni Kriesi with the T3 and the Beauty (women's) and the Beast (men's)Rome's Rich Jonas with their Stale Crewzer, the Stalefish and a brand new smileRome's Rich with the Vice (Artifact colourway) and the Cleaver (Stale Pro)Slash By Gigi the ATV and the BrainstormSOURCE's Clive Ripley and Sportair's Mathieu Kurtz