Walk us through your ski/s selection thought process when traveling to South America. When I travel down to ski in Bariloche, Argentina, it’s with the goal of skiing big lines, steep chutes, and amazing trees. Whether I’m enjoying resort skiing or the backcountry. Skiing in South America provides its own unique challenges and experiences; you…
Joel – tell us a bit about your ski background, bringing us up to current… A: My grandfather got me into mountaineering and skiing at a young age. He grew up skiing and mountaineering in the alps, and he wanted to make sure that family tradition lived on. I fell in love with the sport…
Luke – tell us a bit about your ski background, bringing us up to current… I grew up skiing at a few small resorts in Ohio: Boston Mills, Brandywine, and Alpine Valley. When I was about 7 years old, my parents bought a ski condo at Holiday Valley, NY. I joined the mogul team, but…
Folsom athlete Becky Walter skis as hard as any (harder than most in fact). Residing full time in Summit County CO, Becky can be found in the resort during her lunch breaks, and also spends a significant amount of time exploring Colorado’s expansive backcountry. Here’s a bit about her background, and her impact as an…
Folsom Custom Skis and BLISTER Gear Review have been working together for upwards of 5 years. From simple gear discussions, to the collaborative design of Folsom’s BLISTER Pro ski shape, the relationship has only been growing, particularly as of late. CEO Mike McCabe sat down with BLISTER’s Jonathan Ellsworth to discuss anything and everything pertaining…
Have you ever wondered why some skis are more highly recommended than others? Sure a lot of the technology and materials are the same, but why do some retail shops tell you that one ski is better than another? The answer is that those opinions are formed once a year at FREESKIER Magazine’s Ski Test,…
Calling all dog lovers… Here at Folsom Custom Skis, we consider dogs to be a man’s (or woman’s) best friend. We also understand that a lot our customers might just love dogs even more than we do. Lucky for you, as a custom ski manufacturer, we have the capability to change any aspect of…
Doug Mock is a Folsom athlete who you won’t catch skiing the resort very frequently. We recently worked with Doug to build the first ever full carbon version of our Spar 88 with some other custom modifications for his ski mountaineering missions. Here’s what he had to say about the experience, the build, and how…
Every year in early March, FREESKIER Magazine invites dozens of the ski industry’s top brands to enter their skis into the annual ski test dubbed FREESKIERFEST. With support from a fired-up FREESKIER Staff, a rowdy group of ski testers spends an entire week rigorously testing these brands’ skis day in and day out, on hardpack,…
It didn’t snow much last year in Colorado, but that’s okay. We still managed to build more skis than we ever have (again), and when we weren’t handcrafting our signature custom builds, we put in hours upon hours of fine tuning our machinery, developing new shapes, optimizing our production techniques, and making our brand more…
