Hey - Caldwell Sport has been absorbed by the growing global giant of the ski industry known as Boulder Nordic Sport. The Caldwell family has been abducted and installed in Boulder Colorado. Check out http://www.bouldernordic.com/ to see what’s up. Whatever you do, don’t send skis to Squamish for service. If I could figure out how [...]

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It’s been, what, something like three months since an update. I’ve been busy. Sorry! And I write that as if somebody is actually reading this after all that time…
I’m getting packed to head over to Europe with Nathan for a BNS ski picking trip, and also for meetings with the Fischer racing department guys regarding [...]

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Nearly 1 meter of snow has fallen on the Callaghan Valley since Saturday morning. New snow testing in March. Gearing up for the final two months of groomed skiing of the season…

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So - not too many updates lately. I put up a sort of whiney post about how there wasn’t much to say anyway, and then that got erased when the whole website changed servers. I’m trying to put up some funny pictures of ski testing at the venue, but I can’t figure out the image [...]

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The Elves find it impossible to resist the tub of ski ties.

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That’s 562 pounds of skis going out tomorrow - the final shipment before I leave town for three weeks. I’ll update with news from the road as circumstances warrant.

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I processed 409 pairs of skis for grinding in the month of October. This means that the skis get entered into the computer. I’ve just finished the heatbox work on the last of those October skis. 409 is not my biggest month ever, but it’s not all that far off. It’s a bit of a [...]

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No- we haven’t got the count down that low. But I did manage to ship out 455 lbs of skis yesterday. That’s 135 pairs, carted down across the border to ship to Americans. Good news for wallspace in the shop. The problem is that I picked up another 80 pairs down at the border. Then [...]

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Every now and again I look around and think “gee, that’s a lot of skis”. Once in a very long while it seems to be enough skis to prompt a count. That was the case a couple of days ago for only the second time ever when Erik and I counted the skis in the [...]

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Pat has recently been cured of his bad attitude about coffee. For the past week or so he has been enjoying a morning cup, along with commensurate quality of life improvements. Erik’s attitude appears somewhat more intractable.
Pat had made the error of thinking of caffeine as a tool to be used during exams. In fact, [...]

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