In an effort to be transparent with our valued customers, we wanted to offer a place for customers to ask our president questions about RAMP skis, snowboards, and coming soon—longboards. If you have a question for Mike that you want addressed in his weekly blog, please email [email protected] and include "Ask Mike" in the subject line. This is his first one about RAMP ski and snowboard durability.

Hi friends of RAMP,

It's been a great spring at RAMP, all kinds of magazine tests, on-snow trade fairs, dealer ski days—lots of great stuff. The new skis and boards are riding so incredibly well. Our...

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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 snowboards really dialed in. Last week, we got the new final molds for them in three sizes and made more test...

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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 creative. Many of the groundbreaking new technological breakthroughs at RAMP are the result of his n...

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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 gravity, and keeping his weight literally over the skis. It is much harder to throw one’s feet out from un...

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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 really good progress in dialing the snowboard production process so we can produce many or all of ne...

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