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The Nomads is the ultimate shred hostel. In 2014, with the help of a successful crowd funding campaign, owners Tim and Val started converting an old US School Bus into a hotel on wheels. Now almost four years later, the bus spends its winters chasing fresh snowfalls in mountain ranges throughout Europe with up to six guests in-tow. This spring, from the end of February until the middle of May, the Nomads bus will be based in the Arctic Circle, accommodating avid ski-tourers and splitboarders. The bus is now equipped with a fleet of Amplid touring skis and splitboards.
Amplid's Peter Bauer chats with Blister Review's Jonathan Ellsworth to talk about snowboarding, how he discovered the sport, its culture and what contributed to the sport's meteoric boom in late 80ies and 90ies. A real insight into the history of the sport and why being "anti" skiing was essential to its growth.
Late spring is the perfect time to explore the incredible mountains of the Lyngen Alps. Towering above the Fjords which separate them, these Norwegian gems hold great snow until early summer, and the long days of the Arctic Circle’s summer make them the perfect place to splitboard. Amplid friend Juergen Haider is leading an expedition to the Lyngen in late April and there are still a handful of spots available.
It's that time of year again... you know, when the internet reduces all the gear that won't sell to rock bottom prices! This year Amplid is doing things a little differently. Instead of discounting our super awesome hard goods, we're offering some next level freebies like touring skins, our Codex freeride backpack and Pally'Hi Merino base layers. Click here to find-out more.
This weekend the Test To Believe Tour is at the Kaunertal Glacier in Austria's Tirol region. The snow on the glacier is in prime condition after some great early season snowfalls and with the terrain park already in operation, Kaunertal is a great place to demo every type of ski and snowboard, from park cruisers to backcountry missiles.
It's been a long four years since California had a winter worth shouting about. Friends of Amplid, Buell Steelman and Henning Schwalbe, have been making the most of the great conditions on their Amplid shreds.
Join Amplid and a large number of other ski brands this weekend (12th and 13th of March) at the Freeride Testival at Kaunertal Glacier and demo the 16/17 collection. Great conditions and beautiful blue skies are on the cards!
Between January the 29th and the 31st Amplid hosted the Blank Plank Weekender at the Backyard in the Zillertal Valley, Austria. The weekend was an opportunity for powder addicts and wannabe shapers to design and shape their dream powder shred from Amplid's Blank Plank products.

Blank Plank Weekender

From Friday the 29th of January until Sunday the 31st Amplid will host its first Blank Plank Weekender at the Backyard in the Zillertal Austria. The weekend event will give ten people the opportunity to design, shape and shred their dream powder ski, board or splitboard.
This weekend The Rock On Snowboard Tour rolls into the hight altitude resort of Val Thorens, part of the world famous Three Valleys. For the last week the heavens have opened and delivered plenty of fresh snow, so get yourself to the Amplid tent and test some of our legendary pow boards!
This weekend, on the 17th and 18th of October, Amplid will be at the Gletscherfest in Pitztal with a fully equiped demo fleet so that interested skiers and snowboarders can try the gear and get themselves hooked on Amplid.
This weekend Amplid will be at the "Freeride Ski Test" hosted by Freeskiers.net and Berg Stolz Magazine in Kauertal Austria. Visitors will have the opportunity to test 15/16 skis from a whole collection of brands including yours truly. Don't miss out!
As a sponsor of the event, the team at Amplid would like to wish all the competitors at this year's Val D'Aran Freeride Contest in Baqueira Beret the best of luck. May your lines be smooth and your landings soft!
This weekend Amplid is shipping a handful of splitboards to the Backyard in Austria's Zillertal for the first "Go Snowboard" camp of the season. Spaces are very limited so if splitboarding in the Zillertal and lounging in a beautiful renovated farmhouse sounds like your cup of tea then click here.
Other commitments and illness meant that Amplid was unable to attend this years Vintage Snowboard Days event. The event, which was held last weekend at the Living Room at Hochkoenig, drew together a big crowd of legends, oldies and young rippers for a banked slalom event to remember.
We've teamed-up with The Freeride Center Stubai, where you can now rent an Amplid Morning Split for the bargain price of 35 Euros a day. So, if you want to try before you buy and you can't make it to one of the many splitboard festivals that Amplid will be attending this winter, then here's your chance!

Stubai Demo Report

Last weekend the Amplid Demo Tour was at the Stubaier Gletscher with a whole quiver of test skis and snowboards. The winds were a little gusty but the pistes were in fantastic condition. Here are a few pictures from the test.
This winter Amplid has teamed up with US splitboard binding and accessories manufacturer Spark R&D to offer the best possible demo experience. Yep Amplid's LAB Carbon Split and Morning Split will be kitted-out with Spark's Magneto and After Burner bindings, featuring the innovative Tesla System. Click here to find out more.
Last weekend Amplid welcomed another retailer into the ARC. Com Nou Freeride, by summer a mountain bike and outdoors hardware store and by winter a freeride focused ski shop, opened a new shop location in La Massana, Andorra. Amplid's Fernando was there to enjoy the flowing drink and canapes.
Pre-season on Europe's glaciers can be unpredictable. You might be greated with epic storms and 100mph winds, or you could luck-out and have warm sunny weather and mild temperatures. Fortunately for the Amplid demo tour "Enjoy the Glacier" event at Les Deux Alpes was blessed with the latter. Hundreds of testers flocked to the event and many of them stepped on an Amplid deck for the first time.
This weekend, October the 25th and 26th, Amplid will be at the "Enjoy The Glacier" event on the Les Deux Alpes glacier in France. So if you're in the area, get yourself and your buddies up to L2A and make use of the 23Eur ski pass and Amplid's free to use demo fleet.
While the UK is being battered by the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo (quite possibly the coolest name for a Hurricane yet), and the majority of the Northern Hemisphere's population sob and moan about the increasingly cold weather, we snowboarders and skiers have something to be happy about. There's snow on the horizon... tons of the stuff!
Last weekend the Amplid Demo Tour was at Hintertux glacier for the official kick-off of the European Snowboard Calendar, the Hotzone Park Opening. This coming weekend the Demo Tour will be at the Kaunertal Glacier for the legendary KTO with a vast selection of skis and boards for you to try.
This weekend the Tirol's winter season kicks-off with the Hotzone Park Opening and Amplid will be there with a whole stack of 14/15 test boards. With sunny weather on the cards, a park jam packed full of jumps and jibs for all levels of rider and one of the best parties in snowboarding, you'd be a fool to miss it.
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