One of the best to ever do it, Bode Merrill has been a huge part of our traction program since 2011, and a founding member of our original four-rider mitten team back in 2015 (alongside Stevens, Rav, and Müller). When Bode joined the mitten team, everything stepped up a notch. He’s probably the gnarliest all-around snowboarder on Earth, and thus we needed to be making mittens that were going to work for him at his level, whether he was stepping off a chopper in Alaska, or jumping off a building in Salt Lake. We focused on a rugged mitt that could hold up to Bode's abuse, and created the all-leather workwear style Man Hands mitten, which later evolved into the all-vegan Chop Mitten.