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Pete's Open Road

  • INTERVIEWED BY:

    Action Sports

  • INTERVIEW LOCATION:

    Sequim, WA

  • AIRED ON:

    Other: Roadtrip Nation Action Sports | FuelTV

PETE SAARI

Co-Founder
Mervin Manufacturing

“If this world's going to going to be that tough and that challenging, the one thing I know I can do is work as hard or harder and put more time in it than anyone else will.”

INTERESTS:

Action Sports Design Engineering Entrepreneurship

THEMES DISCUSSED:

Hard Work Family Support & Encouragement

TAGS:

attitude, effort, high school, partying, snowboards, time

BIOGRAPHY:

Pete Saari & Mike Olson are some of the early pioneers in snowboarding. Together, they built their first snowboards in 1977 and founded Mervin Manufacturing, a full in-house snowboard production company, soon after. Their skill and craftsmanship soon gained notoriety, with Mervin and its sister brands designing and building snowboards for Quicksilver/Roxy. Pete & Mike and their boards are known around the world for their attention to detail and artisanship – each board is designed, built, and shipped from their Washington state manufacturing site.