SIA & REI Snowshoe Park and Winter Feels Good Pavilion a Success

SnowSports Industries America reports that it has successfully partnered with REI stores in Northern Virginia and Maryland in hosting the Winter Feels Good Pavilion and Snowshoe Park, an interactive public demo held November 11-13 at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA. SIA states that this was the second year that the Expo has presented the Pavilion and Snowshoe Park and the first time that REI hosted the attraction.

Atlas, Tubbs, MSR and Redfeather snowshoes all were represented at the park, and show participants got to try snowshoeing on an indoor surface. The four snowshoe manufacturers are also founding sponsors of Winter Trails, an annual event that will again be scheduled for January 7, 2006. Winter Trails allows children and adults new to snowshoeing and/or cross country skiing at nearly 100 venues in the U.S. and Canada to try out equipment. 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 were additional sponsors for Winter Trails including W.L. Gore and Associates, Columbia Sportswear, Manzella gloves, Sorel, Nature Valley granola bars, Alpina, Atomic, Exel, Karhu, Fischer, Rossignol, Salomon, Swix, Whitewoods, Cross Country Skier magazine, Snowshoe magazine, Ski Trax magazine and XCSkiresorts.com. Winter Trails is organized by SIA through a partnership with the American Hiking Society and the Cross Country Ski Areas Association.