Monday, October 10, 2011

Gear: Crab Grab

Necessity is the mother of all invention, and never did the old adage hold truer than with the new brand Crab Grab. Fathered by High Cascade's own Preston Strout and born on the perpetually slushy slopes of Mt. Hood, Crab Grab is a new traction pad company. Traction pads? Confused? Think: stomp pad evolved.

Strout explains: "Most stomp pads are pretty heinous -- these lame chunks of plastic you'd expect to find on a rental board. Riders like Scott Stevens and Jesse Burtner have been cutting up cheap foam stomp pads for years to put all over their boards as grip. They'd raid the HCSC demo center and hoard all the ones they could find. With Crab Grab, we set out to create an abundant, high quality alternative to cutting up cheap foam pads." Read More


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