Summary
Caleb and Morgan Weinberg are brothers who founded Romp Skis in Crested Butte, Colorado, so we sat down with them at our headquarters in CB to discuss their backgrounds, what it specifically means to them to be a “custom” ski building manufacturer, how they ended up building skis for the 10th Special Forces Group, and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Finding their way to Gunnison / Crested Butte (1:18)
- Why the name “Romp”? (9:25)
- The early days: figuring it out (10:25)
- What does the word “custom” mean for Romp? (18:13)
- Their approach to shaping skis (29:35)
- Thoughts on ski weight & related tech (33:20)
- Building skis for the 10th Special Forces Group (42:35)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out all the stuff we're doing and reviewing at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.3 | Caleb and Morgan Weinberg are two brothers who founded Romp S skis right here in Crested Butte, Colorado. |
| 0:24.6 | So we sat down with them at our headquarters in CB to discuss their backgrounds, |
| 0:29.6 | what it specifically means to them to be a custom ski building manufacturer, |
| 0:34.6 | how in the world they ended up with a military contract to build skis for |
| 0:38.4 | the 10th Special Forces Group and more. |
| 0:41.5 | I hope you enjoy this conversation and you can learn more about romp at rompskies.com |
| 0:47.1 | and I'm going to open here by having Caleb field the first question. |
| 0:51.4 | So let's just go ahead and get right to it. |
| 0:57.9 | We are here at our headquarters in elevation and I'm here with Caleb and Morgan. We are going to talk about Rompskis. We're going to go |
| 1:05.0 | a little bit on the background and then move into where things are in the present. But I'm excited |
| 1:10.6 | to be doing this for all kinds of different reasons. |
| 1:13.8 | So Caleb and Morgan, good to have you guys here. |
| 1:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:16.5 | Thanks. Glad to be here. |
| 1:17.7 | So going back to the beginning, beginning, you guys grew up where? |
| 1:23.5 | We grew up in northern New Hampshire. |
| 1:26.1 | We both ski raced as kids. and I moved here to Gunnison |
| 1:30.6 | to go to school at Western State in 1992 after I graduated from high school. And Morgan followed |
| 1:39.9 | in 96. 96. And then I moved away a few times and back, but... |
| 1:46.0 | You just couldn't get over the Gunnison Valley, huh? No. Yeah? It's just a lot to like, turns out. So both went to Western? |
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