Outdoor Retailer Trade Show in Utah
The mega-event of the general outdoor sports retail industry, the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market tradeshow convenes this week (August 7-12) in Salt Lake City. Some 21,000 industry professionals and scores of journalists will attend. While you won’t see firearms at the show, you will find every other kind of outdoor gear–backpacks, spotting scopes, boots, binoculars, tents, kayaks, hydration packs, mountain bikes, GPS units, canoes, and complete clothing lines from big-name makers such as 5.11, Merrell, North Face, Patagonia, and Woolrich. If you want a sneak peak at new products that will hit the outdoor retailing shelves for the 2007 holiday season, Salt Lake is the place to be for the next five days.
A two-day Open Air Product Demo will be held August 7-8th at Pineview near Ogden, Utah. The Demo will be held at Cemetery Point, a peninsula reaching into the heart of the large reservoir. This new location provides an enhanced terrain with easy and convenient load-in and load-out capabilities, ample parking, accessible beachfront and nearby trails. The Magellan GPS Treasure Hunt and Teva Trail Run will be going on as planned at the new venue, with the Trail Run accessing the Wheeler Ridge trail via a short shuttle ride.
