​   While teaching snowboarding with Stratton’s Allegro Program, Moscarello and his roommate, John “J.G.” Gerndt developed Vew-Do balance boards. He saw that "most people had no clue of what balance was required to ride a snowboard"[i] He broke out an old Bongo Board and they started messing around with it. While Moscarello was a passive Bongo boarder, JG got on the board, “goes back and forth, and all of a sudden, he starts trying to do spins and tricks and flips, snowboard moves, grabs. At that moment, that's what inspired me to take the Bongo Board to the next level, just like Jake took the Snurfer to the next level.”[ii] For Moscarello, “the light bulb went off. ‘This is what I need to do is develop a product that would allow … people to learn the instincts needed for snowboarding.’"[iii]Moscarello was a major presence at Bromley, first as an instructor and then Vew-Do sponsored the Ron Emond Jib Fests at the mountain. Moscarello met Emond at JK Adams while looking for wood for his boards. The two hit off and spent hours on the mountain riding with Emond and his children. Upon Emond’s sudden death at age 42, Moscarello supported his four children. One of them, Tyler Emond, started off a young Bromley boarder, worked with Scott Palmer at the Stratton Mountain School, became a pro-rider and now works at Vew-Do. Tyler, Ross Powers and the Glebeland crew were “the first of that generation to ride with the generation that was there in the beginning.” While the Glebelands crew were older, they “came through and went on to do great things. Some of them worked here for Vew-Do and this was their introduction into the snowboard world."[iv] One of Scott Lenhardts’s first professional pieces was a design for Vew-Do. “Brew was from Yonkers New York,” Scott Lenhardt continued, “so he had a whole different take on pretty much everything. And he was fun to hang out with when you're a teenager.”[v] With Vew-Do bridging the snowboard and skateboard cultures seamlessly, Vew-Do appealed to many teenagers. Moscarello also saw a new potential for Snurfer. He discovered that Jem abandoned the patent for the Snurfer. "Yearning for that feeling of what brought us here,” Moscarello launched Snurfer 2.0 - "you know bindings aren't everything that they're made out to be."[vi]


[i] Moscarello

[ii] D’Ambrosio, Dan, “Manchester company bringing Snurfer back to the slopes.” Burlington Free Press, Nov. 27, 2014

[iii] Moscarello

[iv] Ibid.

[v] Lenhardt

[vi] Moscarello