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Dr John Outwater invented the Teflon AFD pad in 1963 and declined to patent it -- he put it into public domain. Mitch Cubberley picked up the idea pretty quickly. The Cubco Skidder reached the market...

Ah, yes. Renntiger! The Renntiger R (1983) was a combi, midway between slalom and GS; the straight Renntiger was a softish GS cruiser-type ski. These were actually NOT World-Cup skis, but aimed at...

I think we have it --

Rick Howell reports that it's the functional precursor of Ess (now Atomic).

That would explain the Look-style castings with a pincer toe -- At the time, Ess held the...

I think it might be an Attenhofer from about 1966, and John Kirschner suggested that too. But Richard Allen thinks it might be a Look step-in prototype. It has that heavy cast-aluminum Look style,...

Nice collection!
My first pair was #2, the side-throw version -- Had them on my first fiberglass skis, a pair of Toni Sailers bought used in 1968.

Jean-François Lanvers April 16 at 5:39am Report
Jean-Francois Lanvers says:
Those go back to the post 1982 era after Look was purchased by France's corporate raider, Bernard Tapie. They feature...

I'm guessing 1972. I remember stocking that boot when I worked at The Ski Haus in Cleveland. Don't remember the model name -- Sapporo?

The boots, skis and bindings date from the fall of 1983.

The boot is the Lange Zs, which originally retailed for about $260. It was a soft-flexing boot about two or three models below the Zr...

The first Olin skis were actually built, in 1969 I think, in the Authier factory in Biere, Switzerland (Olin simply bought the factory). When the Middletown, Connecticut factory opened a year or two...

For more about cocaine and the XR1, see Snowdeath, http://masia.org/snowd.htm

Maurice Woehrle, who was a top design engineer at Rossignol for several decades, wrote to ask about some old skis:


As regards Kästle slalom skis, I had no answer from Kidd. I suppose that he...

Last summer this Forum suffered a spambot attack from one or more servers in Russia, and the volume of garbage shut down our administrative functions.

We've now upgraded our filters to exclude...

Where did you find these?

If in North America, I'd guess these were made during the 1920s, probably of white pine. Might be a Canadian brand -- they were fond of Anglophile names. May have been...

Mike and Bonnie Hickey of the Bridger Bowl Ski School report that Corkey will teach there this winter.

Agreed. Look was decades ahead of its time. The long-stroke toe had great return-to-center elasticity long before anyone else figured out its importance. And Looks were nearly bulletproof, made of...

Great collection!

As I recall, most of the Mk I skis were black with elegant white lettering. It was a versatile recreational ski meant to compete with the Head 360.

Mk II VCE was the race ski,...

I haven't been able to find a photo, either. Mitch Cubberley died in 1977, and the company folded n 1979. The Mogul Jumper may actually have corresponded with the height of the freestyle era, around...

Frankly, I don't recall that the Rosemount was especially cold. Because the Rosemount was my first plastic boot, the only thing I had to compare it to was the soggy leather boot I learned to ski in...

Most people knew him as Sarge Brown -- is that who you mean? We did a short article on him in Skiing Heritage (March 2002) and an obit (December 2008). I can't find a 1985 article in our Ski or...

Check in with the Western SkiSports Museum at Donner Summit:
http://www.auburnskiclub.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=34

They have an exhibit on Snowshoe Thompson and...