Teddy is three. We'd had a great morning skiing, grabbed lunch, and headed up to Elk Camp to finish the day on the alpine coaster. It was busy up there - a lot of families, a lot of movement.
Teddy wanted to wait outside while I ran in to grab tickets. He was right there by the entrance. I was gone maybe two minutes.
My phone rang before I made it to the counter.
A woman outside had spotted him standing alone. She wasn't sure if he was lost or just waiting, so she did what any good person would do - she checked. She noticed the gear tag on his helmet, scanned it with her phone, and called me on the spot.
He was fine. He hadn't moved. But she didn't know that - and that's exactly the point.
Ten Seconds From "Is This Kid Okay?" to "I've Got His Dad on the Phone"
No app. No searching. No trying to get a three-year-old to remember a phone number. She just scanned and called.
That's what a QR gear tag does. It gives any good samaritan a direct line to you - instantly. At a busy mountain restaurant, at a crowded ski school pickup, at a theme park, at an airport. Anywhere you're moving through a crowd with a small kid, the tag does the work.
She Went From Concerned to Customer in About Five Minutes
When I came back outside and explained what the tag was, she wanted one for her kids immediately. Not because she'd been shopping for a product. Because she'd just watched it work in real time and understood exactly what it did.
That's how this product sells itself. You don't need a pitch. You just need to see it once. If you want to understand how it works, it takes about 60 seconds to read.
Get Your Gear Tagged Before Your Next Day Out
If you're heading to Snowmass, Aspen, or anywhere in the valley for your last ski days of the season - this is your reminder. Tag the helmet. Tag the ski bag. Tag the water bottle your kid carries everywhere.
Registration takes two minutes. Scan the QR code on your tag, fill in your contact info, and anyone who finds your kid or your gear can reach you instantly.
This wasn't the first time a crowd got the better of me as a parent. It's actually the whole reason I built myScanBandz —When at an Avs game I had that dreadful feeling of "what happens if I get separated from my boys?" That feeling haunted me so I went and created myScanBandz. The Snowmass moment was the first time the product proved itself out in the wild. If you want the whole two-minute setup, I walked through it here. And I'll be at Boulder Creek Festival May 23 — more on why that event matters here.
Gear tags start at $12.99 for a 5-pack. Less than a lift ticket. Shop at myscanbandz.com.