the Minturn area and had watch in dismay, like all of us, as the forest turned red. He desired to permanently settle in Colorado’s mountain towns and wondered how to use all of our dead pine in a meaningful way. Barry, a woodworker, loves to snowboard and wondered if he could create snowboards with a Pine Beetle veneer topsheet. The veneer idea didn’t work. He gathered some intelligence and with former Pro Snowboarder Mike Whitefield they re-crafted the pine along with poplar layers and pressed it. The result was very successful and from that turning point Weston was born.
Last year he refurbished the old pink stucco building in the middle of Minturn with recycled wood and beetle kill products. His family opened the doors to Weston Outdoors and Weston Snowboards. Barry relocated his family from Denver to the area to both enjoy life and to assist in running the new family business. Five different snowboard models are offered with all of them available as a split board. The Beetlekill is an all mountain board and is the showpiece for beetle killed wood. The Pitch is a split board for backcountry access; the Lodgepole is a Park Specific board that also serves as an all mountain board. The Beetle Juicy is a great women’s board and
Two local companies making skis and snowboards from beetle kill wood