Outdoor Retailer Report - the aftermath

I'm not sure if this makes any sense at all, but last weekend at the 2007 Outdoor Retailer was the longest blur of a weekend I've experienced in awhile. It feels like just hours ago I was packing for the trip, but yet reflecting on the weekend's humongous amount of tomfoolery finds me thinking it was three times as long as it actually was.

I've never seen so much outdoor gear and so many outdoor-loving people in one centralized place. It was bordering on ironic how many outdoor-related people and events were taking place in what was essentially a sealed off bunker flooded with fluorescent lights.

But it was a blast, and it was eye-opening. The general sense we got was that the industry has put sort of a hold on new technological performance advancements in favor of solving the pollution-from-production problem. So in terms of cool new mind-blowing gadgets, there weren't many.

My free-sticker collection impressive, my belly bloated by the heavenly amount of free beer pouring out of the place, and with an optimistic outlook on the future of eco-friendly product manufacturing, Yann and I bid adieu to Salt Lake City and returned home to the YourMTB.com nation.

Watch for tons of great footage from the show to pop up real soon!