Ski History

For one of our projects Allison, Jayleen, and I are working on the design of skis. Part of this project is the history of making skis, which I found out, was much longer than I expected. Rock paintings and preserved skis show that hunters and trappers actually used skis over 5000 years ago. It took until 1850 for cambered skis to be invented in the province of Telemark, Norway. Nearly 70 years later in 1928, the segmented steel edge was introduced in Salxburg, Austria. It wasn't until 1946 that the first ski to use three different layered materials was introduced, and nine years later, P-tex was finally added to the design of skis. In 1990 the concept of the shaped skis we now use was finally introduced, gearing towards our generation of easy-carving skis. Even in a short version, ski history is quite extensive.