Shops 1st Try 2016 - Boardsport SOURCE

The sun had his hat on

Test site

Just a hint of what was out there

Test entrance

Bluebird delight.

Muck the microphone maestro

Ampid's Lovelife for advanced women riders and Pillowtalk for freestyle in deep deep powder

Amplid's Gregor and Rich..bluebird smiles

Volkl's AFC all mountain rocker and the Alright with tapered nose for extra float

Volkl's Pascal, Christoph & Michelle

Nitro in the house

Jones - joint 2nd place in the Shops 1st Try BoardSport SOURCE design competition

Test Area

Burton Crew (left to right)- Sales Reps Ludwig, Scotty, Nadine, Bernie & Demo Coordinator Karl-Heinz

Burton Family Tree Split

Burton Softgoods & anon. Sales Rep Vroni wearing the Women's M1 Magna Tec goggle & Greta helmet

Deeluxe Marketing Manager Matthieu Perez & Lib Tech Demo Chief Tobi Leyendecker

CAPiTA Sales Rep Baden-Württemberg with his son

Deeluxe - "The Original" boot

Deeluxe Backcountry Boot Spark XV

Union's new Travis Rice Pro Model

Union - Girl's Milan

CAPiTA board range

CAPiTA Micro-Scope kids board

Let there be snow

...and there was.

Outside the entrance.

Welcome to Mr Muck's Shops 1st Try.

Inside the test camp..more spread out than last year

Test area from the far end

Test area left hand corridor.

Test area looking to the entrance

Dakine time... First stop of the day waffles and coffee... big thank you Dakine.

Goodboards' Capra with big tapered nose for freeriding and Volcano with basalt core

Goodboards' Mike and Josef with NIck - one of their customers

Adidas' Philip and Actionsportsjob's Kone next to the Adidas stand built almost completely of snow - gets SOURCE head honcho's vote for 'stand of the test'

Adidas Tactical boost boot... keeps flexible in low temperatures.

Adidas SUPERSTAR - street inspired freestyle boot

Adidas Philip, Erwin and Bjoern

Boa's Tobias, Lisa and Dorien.

Boa's handy repair kit for retailers.

Boa's New England Rope technology launched on Burton boots

Ride's Timeless with aluminium top sheet for power and stiffness.

Ride's Limited padding-less ankle strap gives a more direct feeling from the board

Ride's Klaus, Christoph and Joerg

K2's Cinch with Tripod technology chassis and 15% lighter

K2's Party Platter, an evolution of the Cool Bean for more volume under your feet.

K2's Andy and Max

Never Summer's Proto Type 2 based on last year's best selling Proto

Never Summer's Warlock pipe and park rockered snowboard.

SIMS are back... The Swift directional camber board for all mountain snowboarding

NIcholas and Merle from Choppywater

SIMS Juice board with original graphic from 92 and Tom Sims icon

Flux XF with stiff highback and an internal split for more flex.

Flux women's DS collab with James Haunt with softer highback

Head's Pilot with graphene to give greater stiffness and super lightweight too

Head's Award winning goggle. Super lightweight with no frame

Head's Max and Claudio.

Head's goggle POS unit

686's Smarty Glacier Gor-Tex jacket - their first Gore-Tex based product

686's women's Parklan Immortal jacket, for snow and street

686's Stephane with war wound, Alda and Bjorn

686's Smartie Form jacket with fully detachable liner. 3 in 1 technology

Rome's Mountain Division freeride board with soft rocker in nose for added float

Rome's new carve machine - the Blur with rods in nose and tail to strengthen board whilst carving

Arbor's Kris, Sebastian and Chris

Arbor's Brian Iguchi pro model rocker version for all round fun

Arbor's Westmark Rocker - freestyle orientated with a parabolic rocker

Pally'Hi women's Omnitime hoody with Merino bamboo blend - perfect second layer piece you can also lounge around in

Pally'Hi's Wood Blazer - heavy weight merino felt blend shirt for low temprature days or as a light jacket

Pally Hi's Johannes