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Hello, Friends of RAMP, this is Kilch, President and CESnow.

 

We are now in full production for 13-14, which is very exciting to me. Since we founded RAMP, we’ve always been behind in having inventory (backorders) and it obviously affects our sales potential. People who support us are awesome because even while being sold out we have been getting orders and growth. This season we will be in stock and it will have a dramatic effect on what we sell.

 

We are also getting the new made in USA snowboard...

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Behind the Curtain with the Wonderful Wizard of RAMP

 

Christian Alary, aka the "Wonderful Wizard of RAMP," will be writing bi-weekly technical blogs about his ski/board engineering at RAMP. 

Christian holds a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the prestigious INSA in Lyon, France. He has 12 years hands-on experience designing skis and snowboards, leading the new technology projects for the largest company in the industry, Rossignol. 

He holds many inventions, patents, and is incredibly ...

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Hello, Friends of RAMP, this is Kilch, President and CESnow. 

 

So the prototyping and development rocks on. We’ve been testing the new 105 mm in several different sidecuts and flexes. It’s so cool to be able to test sidecuts as part of this process. I think we’re really unique in our ability to do that. Normally a company does the research to decide on the shape that is the future of a 105 mm type ski, width at tip, waist and tail along with camber and they commit to the tooling by buying the mol...

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Ski: Ramp Frenzy, 179cm.

 

Location: Deer Valley, UT

 

Conditions: Many wind blown areas, 20-30 degrees F. 4-6 inches of wet snow two days prior, wet especially at lower elevations, causing the snow to become even softer once in sunlight. With higher edge degrees and edge angles, the chances of loosing your downhill edge and "hipping out" becomes greater as there is nothing to "hang onto." The snow simply falls away. So, it forces one to bend his knees to a great angle, lowering his center of gravit...

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Hello, Friends of RAMP, this is Kilch, President and CESnow. 

 

We just got back form a long road trip doing more magazine tests, music events, and resort shop demos, a great trip overall. We still have the SKIING magazine test next week at Loveland, Colorado.  Really Fun Stuff.

 

I came back to our factory, which is busy with making the first snowboards. We even had Lindsey Jacobellis mold one. She’s working hard on knee rehab to be ready to dominate at the Olympics while not molding. We’re making ...

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No secret that RAMP is located in Park City, Utah. So it should come as no surprise to you this is where I make my home as well. Here is Utah we pride ourselves in offering "the greatest snow on earth." So because 90% of the time we are skiing on soft snow, the Groundhog makes a great ski for this area.

 

I'm going to be talking specifically about the 179cm Groundhog in this review. The ski specs out at 137-100-123, and the radius is 19.39m. It employes the 50%-50% camber and of course a vertical ...

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Hello,
Friends of RAMP, this is Kilch, President and CESnow. 

 

The last two weeks have been full of travel.  We were getting underway with magazine tests and music events and I feel that we did very well.

 

Outside and Mountain magazines ran tests at Snowbird on Feb 27, 28 and Mar 1 with great snow and weather.  I was very excited and proud of the fact that we were the only U.S. made skis at the test.  We were there with the big companies primarily and you never really know how you did until you se...

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We've had a period of time here in Utah this winter where the groomers are the only place you'll find Utah's "greatest snow on earth." And, who cares really, because ripping groomers on a pair of RAMP skis is so fun! I headed to Canyons Resort in search of the longest runs I could find so I could really let these skis run.