A Gnu Snowboard is an authentic gravity harnessing piece of art hand built in the upper left corner of the USA at the worlds most environmental board factory Mervin Mfg. With radical thinking, tireless dedication and an amazing work shop we’ve developed industry leading technologies and eco practices since 1977. We build our own damn boards. After a recent trip even our team builds their own damn boards, check the vid, pics and more below!
Gnu: The World’s Most Environmental Board Factory
Every step of our manufacturing process is custom tailored for both our board builders health and our planets health. We use eco materials like fast growing Forest Service Council certified woods and non stinky resin. We’re in Washington State where power is generated through wind and water instead of coal. We drive a truck full of sawdust down the street every few days where our neighbors use it in composting for soil that then is used to grow delicious vegetables and probably some lavender too. And because of our eco sublimation printing process we create ZERO HAZARDOUS WASTE which very few (if any) other board builders can claim! No toxic silk screen process means no toxic run off in to our precious water system. We’re not perfect but we are doing what we can and striving to do more and better. Learn in detail about our manufacturing story and practices at mervinmade.com
We had the pleasure of having some team riders up to the factory to build their own damn boards and over to the Cummins house to assault steep transitions and eat delicious food from Chef Temple. Zim and Stanny were on hand to shoot:
Forest; hurricane Gnu
Forest backside tree barrel
Cannon home court kicky
Cannon fs ollie to nasty little bank landing
Cannon nose bashes the tree with love. Is that a transition or a wall?
Water flows
Max gets some, place is steep 😳
Great things happen at the round table
Naima shopping for that perfect core profile
This one’s juuuuuuuuust right
Naima finds Mt. Weird (she was always there)
Forest you can drink that resin, that’s how safe it is. It’s low VOC, but it’s high mess.
Forest spreads, Blake critiques, Gus ponders and Max just wants his account back.
Forest talks shop with a real American board builder.
Cannon catches hella air
Father son about to do the ole sawdust run, yee haw!
G N U Barrett, Temple, Cannon 💙
When you’re riding is as precise as Gus Warbington you know what to look for in vertical laminates.
Gus with a GWO and a bunch of metal things (form blocks)
Max heads to finishing with a bunch of beautiful Gnus and a dope ass Goon Gear beanie too!
Max thought his board was a gun, it’s Gnu!
Max with The Finest in the finest factory on planet earth boi
Blake Paul wore the right shirt… again.
Ummm, help?
Blake in QC making sure every Hyper by BP is grade A thug certified
Blake no stranger to the squeegee
Blake eyes up the Hyper top sheet
Blake and Pos guide it in the press, another bun in the oven!
Some hand built Gnus ready to hit the slops!
This pic is highly meme-able
