All photos: Courtesy of Elan Skis
Trade legend and mohawk maestro Glen Plake is hitting the highway for an additional yr of his iconic Down Residence Tour. What began as a honeymoon tour for Plake and his spouse, Kimberly, in 1991, the Down Residence Tour is a grassroots effort to have fun the soul of snowboarding. Slightly than flock to the mega-conglomerates, Plake’s Down Residence Tour lands at mom-and-pop ski areas throughout the nation.
“Small, native ski areas are the soul of the game. They’re the place snowboarding has its roots, the place friendships are made, and the place the great occasions stay on,” says Plake in a current press launch. “The Down Residence Tour is all about celebrating that spirit—the actual tradition of snowboarding. It’s about embracing the enjoyable, the liberty, and the friendships that include it.”
After a several-year hiatus, the Plakes are again within the bus for the tenth iteration of the tour and can be rambling round Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana this season to share the stoke of snowboarding. Deliberately unstructured, the Plakes will comply with their hearts and the snow, dropping in to unbiased ski areas throughout the Mountain West unannounced. Should you see the Massive Crimson rig in your native lot, you’re in the fitting place.
“Elan has at all times been about celebrating the great occasions on the mountain,” says Elan’s U.S. Product and Advertising Director, Ben Fresco, in that very same press launch. “We’re thrilled to have the Plakes again on the highway with the Down Residence Tour, bringing the tradition of snowboarding to extra communities and provoking individuals to get out and ski with the identical vitality and fervour that Glen embodies. You by no means know when and the place you would possibly share a chairlift with the legend himself.”
Comply with alongside on the Down Residence Tour by way of Elan Skis’ social media (@elanskis) with the hashtag #DownHomeTour and #AlwaysGoodTimes for updates and highlights from the highway.
