Today was a good day here in Portland. Skied the morning at Mt Hood Meadows, called it quits once we were soaked through by the rain. Back at the shop, we unloaded the powder skis and hung up the wet gear, and I went right to work on a batch of 2012/2013 skis.

We’re back from our first SIA show. Our week out in Denver left me feeling overwhelmed and exhausted, but we luckily had a clear roads back to Portland and lots of travel time to recollect. Its hard to gauge how it went, since I’ve never been to SIA before, but the people that made the trek far out to our booth we’re excited to see our skis and see what we’ve been up to. If I met you out there, thanks for coming by – it was great to finally put some faces to names and hear some pent up ski stoke from people who have been following our development. And now, for your viewing pleasure, our 2012/2013 ski line:

Photo’s of the booth are here

Shop update – we’ve been slowly building the shop up to what we want it to look like while we’ve been cranking out skis. We’ve got some crazy skis that I’m very personally excited to see finally get built (I’m hoping the concept will work, but we’ll see), and some less crazy but highly desirable shapes and sizes get made – 176 Jeffrey for one. I’ll have some pictures up here soon in the next week before I hit the road again, stay tuned.

And last but not least, we’re running a bit of a sale right now. Check out the deals on this years skis – the weather out here in OR is finally showing signs of a few strong storm cycles, now would be a good time to pick up some new skis to enjoy it.

Show me the discounts!

As always, keep tuned to our facebook and twitter feeds for photos, videos of our team as we get them in, production updates, prototypes and more. Hope everyone is having a good winter, got a feeling that the best is still to come!

Its been a busy month here, but we’re taking a weekend off from production to visit Stevens Pass, WA. Oh, and we’re bringing the demo fleet. The demo will be free, as always, and with new snow arriving every day, it should be a good weekend to test out some of the powder skis. Its recommended you get to the tent early if you want a specific ski, we’ll be up there when the lifts start spinning!

Where: We’ll be located near the top of the rope tow, near the Tye Creek lodge, look for the tent and skis.
When: January 7th and 8th

Snow Forecast: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=sew&textField1=47.745165&textField2=-121.091178&smap=1

http://www.stevenspass.com/

See you up there!

The ski season has officially begun, though its off to a low-cover and rocky start here. We’ve been staying quite busy throughout the past month due to our shop relocation, but we’re completely out of our old location and into a new factory (which is, thankfully, over 3 times the size). This last week has consisted of finalizing shop planning and work flow along with tons of electrical work to get everything up and running. If all goes well this week, we hope to have skis rolling off the press again this Friday, December 16th.

Speaking of skis, it should be noted that at this time we have sold out of both the 181cm Filthy Rich and 186cm Jeffrey. We’ll be replenishing stock of those soon, but for now, should you need these models immediately, check out our friends over at evo.com.

While we’ve been staying busy, our team has been making do with the low snow pack and killing it anyways. Most notably, John Kutcher brought home the gold at this years Rails 2 Riches in Killington, VT! Congrats John, we know you’ve been wanting this for a while, your hard work definitely paid off, and we could not be more proud.

Our demo tour season has just begun here, we’ll be announcing dates as we firm things up with the resorts. If you are in the PNW this weekend and want to try some free demos, we will be at:

Mt. Bachelor – Saturday, December 17th
Mt. Hood Meadows – Sunday, December 18th

If you want us to bring the entire ON3P fleet out to your mountain, send us an email and request it! (Info@on3pskis.com).

I’ll leave you guys with a picture of David Steele (courtesy of Thomas O’Connell – www.tophotowa.com) getting after it at Stevens Pass, WA, in the park he helps build and maintain. New snow is on the way, we’ll keep you posted as we get edits and news to share.

We are finally able to announce Karl Fostvedt is going to be joining us this winter.

Karl has been holding it down in the last two years of Toy Soldier Productions movies. Though he has a truly wild bag of tricks in the park, we’re very excited to see what he gets up to with some Caylors on his feet. Karl, welcome to the team, we could not be more stoked to give you some skis.

Here it is. What started off as a far fetched discussion in our office one night after work is now a reality. This ski is primarily the brainchild of David Steele and Josh Anderson, and its their outlandish and untraditional desires in ski shapes that we have to thank. The design and concept was ridiculous, but the prototypes skied ridiculously well, and so we had to give this ski a topsheet worthy of such lunacy.

First, just a summary of this ski and what its about. The ski comes in two lengths, 186cm and 196cm.

- Crazy amounts of rocker
- Superfat dimensions
- Medium stiffness
- 100% bamboo core
- Full width carbon fiber
- Innovative taper and dimensions

It is our ultimate tool for deep snow. These skis are being produced in very limited quantities, 15 pairs of each size.

Every ski is unique, because each buyer gets to select their favorite topsheet for their pair. The topsheets were laboriously hand crafted by one of our esteemed graphic artists, incorporating shots taken during our Pillowfight photo shoot we had over the summer. The photo shoot was actually a lot of work, but I dont think we could be happier with the results. So, without further ado, we present the culmination of all our hard work.

We also put a little video together of some fun the four of us got up to on the prototype Pillowfights, mixed in with some clips taken during the photo shoot. Big thanks to Toy Soldier Productions and Josh Anderson for providing additional gnarly footage.

ON3P Pillowfight from Scott Andrus on Vimeo.

We took over 1500 photos during the photo shoot. These are some of our favorites. The ladies deserve a huge thank you for helping us out on this, we truly could not have made this happen without you.

It truly is.

Special edition employee topsheet, headed your way:

Sweet dreams.

Thats it from us, feel free to drop us a line at Info@on3pskis.com if you have any questions about this or any of our skis.