Spur-of-the-moment skis kick start small company
Gardnerville native and self-described ski bum Casey Hakansson had no intention of founding a company back in 2003, when he pestered local snowboard designer Ben Harmon into helping him craft one pair of skis in Harmon’s shop.
“I just thought it would be cool to ski on a pair of skis I made,” said Hakansson, 29. “I put a rental binding on it and shared it with all my friends.”
According to Hakansson, that first ski, loosely based on the K2 Seth Pistol model, rode pretty well, if you were on top of it.
“If you weren’t, it pretty much rode you,” he said. “And it didn’t like turning, unless you were going fast or it was really steep.”
Four years later, Hakansson and his partners, doing business as Moment Skis, are producing several models of skis and poles from a Sutro Street warehouse and selling them through ski shops and over the Internet. Read full story:
