Outdoor Retailer this year was great (not that we have anything to compare it to). We met a lot of great people, got to see a lot of great products and made some very important contacts within the industry. We could have been down there an entire week and never ran out of people to talk to or items to look at and try. Our meeting with Zach from Backpacker went very well and we were both impressed with how knowledgeable and willing to help they were. Look for our ad in their magazine starting in November.
We spent a lot of time in the Energy Solutions Arena where all the new exhibitors were placed. The traffic was a little slower than the exhibitors would have liked but it was a welcome relaxing environment after spending a few hours making our way around the Salt Palace. Everyone was very friendly and we found some great new products that are just emerging onto the market. Since we were talking directly to the founders and inventors for most of the companies they were all very excited and informative when it came to describing their product to us. We walked away from the Arena with a great sense of accomplishment and some of that enthusiasm put a spring back in our step that our early morning flight had drained from us.
We think that BivWak should have a Unimog. Maybe someday.
Saturday was filled with all sorts of events and exhibitions of every kind. We watched the Five Ten team put on a Slackline show for quite a while. They were very impressive and drew a very large crowd.
Sometimes trying out a product is both relaxing and rewarding at the same time. I think I could have spent the rest of the day in this hammock.
We would like to thank everyone that we talked to for spending some time with us. We took a lot of information from the show and hopefully we passed some along at the same time. Thanks for a great show, we can't wait until the next one.
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