RAMP

Hello, this is Kilch, President and CESnow. 

Friends of RAMP, what a wild fall-winter we’ve had here. Since opening our new factory we’ve been in a sold out situation. This is both good and bad. The good news is that the skis are already sold before they are even made. The bad news is people have to wait, big time pressure on our people, a mad scramble to get our new skis made. We added four more production workers so we could increase the output but still couldn’t keep up. The made in the USA an...

Hello, this is Kilch, President and CESnow. 

We finished another round of tests at Mt. Hood. There was still an amazing amount of snow and an army of camp kids there for racing and freestyle. What a scene. Very cool to see so many athletes on race skis, freestyle skis, and the same race and freestyle snowboard scene riding at such an incredibly high level.

We brought 15 more pairs of skis to test to verify final production constructions, graphic applications, times in the oven, etc. The new core...

Hello, this is Kilch, President and CESnow

We are full speed into the prototyping and testing of our processes in order to begin production in July. With so much flexibility built into our new factory, we can test virtually anything because we can make any structure and shape. We have to take a very methodical approach to this so we keep isolating one single variable. 

Our next Mt. Hood Test is going to be June 28-29. At that point, we have to decide which structures are giving the best perform...

Hello, this is Kilch, President and CESnow.

This has been an amazing spring at RAMP. We have purchased a new building, renovated and modified it, and moved in—all happening in the month of May, basically. In addition we set up a new manufacturing facility and are molding the first skis. We have developed a new manufacturing process, which is going to allow us tremendous flexibility and efficiency. We can create new shapes without having to create all new molds, which is a major breakthrough. We ...

Day one of the Freeskiing World Tour (FWT) held much excitement. This was the day of qualifiers for athletes who had not pre-qualified through placing well enough at other events or simply had never competed before. Held at Snowbird, Utah, the qualifying round was held on the west face of Baldy. The competitors were scored on their choice of line, how fluidly they skied it, how much control they appeared to have, and their style. Chuck Mumford was definitely one of the competitors who stood out ...

You've more than likely heard about the NCAA basketball tournament that we all love to call "March Madness." If you haven't, you're probably living in a snow cave somewhere. Now...RAMP has there own form of March Madness, save huge on skis today! But this isn't the March Madness I'm talking about - the March Madness I speak of has to do with Utah Powder, The Greatest Snow on Earth!

I've personally bubbed March, becasue of the last three winters, the real "March Madness." The last three years in...

Guest blogger & Gear Reviewer, Jay Burke. Jay resides in Park City, UT and can be found most days (if he's not behind his desk where he should be) somewhere in the mountains either skiing or riding his mountain bike.  Professionally he is the owner of Snow Chicken Brand Communications and the co-owner/race director of The Park City Point 2 Point, a local endurance mountain bike race. Jay currently chairs the Snyderville Basin Recreation Board in Park City and is on the Advisory Board ...

Guest blogger & Gear Reviewer, Jay Burke. Jay resides in Park City, UT and can be found most days (if he's not behind his desk where he should be) somewhere in the mountains either skiing or riding his mountain bike.  Professionally he is the owner of Snow Chicken Brand Communications and the co-owner/race director of The Park City Point 2 Point, a local endurance mountain bike race. Jay currently chairs the Snyderville Basin Recreation Board in Park City and is on the Advisory Board ...

Hello, this is Kilch, President and CESnow.

Well, it is finally snowing here in Park City and it kicked in last week back east.  It looks like the weather pattern is shaping up for more normal weather and that is great news.  We’ve been doing so many demo days on hard groomed snow east and west and mid-west, and it has been gratifying to see how well the RAMP Skis and Boards have been riding.   It really shows how far we’ve come in making 90mm and 100 mm skis and snowboards with rocker tip and t...

Introducing a guest blogger, Jay Burke. Jay resides in Park City, UT and can be found most days (if he's not behind his desk where he should be) somewhere in the mountains either skiing or riding his mountain bike.  Professionally he is the owner of Snow Chicken Brand Communications and the co-owner/race director of The Park City Point 2 Point, a local endurance mountain bike race. Jay currently chairs the Snyderville Basin Recreation Board in Park City and is on the Advisory Board for Moun...