The Road to Outdoor Retailer

IR Custom Drydecks are comfortable, dry, iconic, handsome…

A custom IR Drydeck will make you dry and at home in just about any environment.  It’s as simple as choosing your favorite IR jacket and Sprayskirt to be combined ...

King wears IR Drysuit, Tick wears Union Suit, both have Mustache

Dave Simonetti won the IR Mustache King “2008 Curt Davis Invitational Mustache Growing Contest of Paddlesports.”  He is the Mustache King, and the King only has the best things that ...

Setting up the booth

We arrived at Salt Lake at about 8:30 last night, and after well-needed full night sleep, we woke up and were busy setting up the booth by 9 this morning. ...

Day two of the drive to SLC

After about 30 hours of driving, we stopped in Edwards, CO to pick up Tim Kennedy, who reps IR, as well as Oakley sunglasses and a few other companies. We ...

Pumping fuel in Indiana

It’s 4:00 pm on the first day of the drive to Salt Lake City, and we stopped at truck stop- to pump our homemade fuel into the truck. This pic ...

Making our fuel for the long trip to SLC

About 4 years ago- long before it was the cool thing to do- Jess Whittemore and I got the idea to make biodiesel and to sell our gasoline-powered vehicles and ...

The road to Outdoor Retailer, part one

Its that time of year again- the summer Outdoor Retailer show. For those of you not familiar with the cycle of the “Outdoor” industry, there is a separate calendar for ...