Obermeyer

Obermeyer Performance outerwear designed and tested in Aspen, Colorado.

Bavaria. 1930s. From one of Klaus's original negatives.Before Aspen. Before the company. Before any of it. Just a snowfi...
05/30/2026

Bavaria. 1930s. From one of Klaus's original negatives.

Before Aspen. Before the company. Before any of it. Just a snowfield, a pair of leather bindings, and the kind of silence you only find above the treeline.

Some things about skiing haven't changed. The gear is different. The quiet at the top is exactly the same.

Why this detail exists.In the late 1940s, Klaus noticed his ski students squinting through every afternoon lesson. Stand...
05/28/2026

Why this detail exists.

In the late 1940s, Klaus noticed his ski students squinting through every afternoon lesson. Standard sunglasses couldn't handle high-altitude glare. So he built the first mirrored ski lenses, coating them with vaporized metal to cut the UV and stop the watering eyes.

By the early '60s, that fix became the Rallye. Handcrafted by French artisans, mirrored before mirrored was a style. One of those ideas that started as a problem on the mountain and ended up in every ski shop in the country.

Klaus never patented them. He never patented any of it. He just wanted skiing to be better, safer, and more accessible.

Did you ever own a pair of Rallyes? We want to see them.

Klaus and Gary Cooper. Aspen Mountain, late 1950s. The whole town fits in the background.Before Cooper was Aspen's most ...
05/26/2026

Klaus and Gary Cooper. Aspen Mountain, late 1950s. The whole town fits in the background.

Before Cooper was Aspen's most famous regular, he was one of Klaus's ski students. He'd play broomball with the instructors on the local pond, sit at the Hotel Jerome bar, and narrate promotional films about the mountain. When Klaus needed help selling the Koogie Tie, Cooper posed for a photo. Orders came in by the tens of thousands.

The best brand deals start on a chairlift.

What's your favorite piece of Obermeyer history?

The ski boots have been in the closet since March. The pass expired. The wax kit hasn't moved. This is the weekend you f...
05/23/2026

The ski boots have been in the closet since March. The pass expired. The wax kit hasn't moved. This is the weekend you finally stop checking the snow report and start checking the trail conditions.

Happy summer, mountain people.

Bold color, aspen trees, and the kind of confidence you can't fake. From the Obermeyer archive, 1968.The patterns change...
05/20/2026

Bold color, aspen trees, and the kind of confidence you can't fake. From the Obermeyer archive, 1968.

The patterns change. The turtlenecks come and go. But the attitude has been consistent since Klaus first put color on the mountain. He believed skiwear should look as alive as the sport felt, and looking at this, it's hard to argue.

What's the boldest color you've ever worn on the mountain?

05/18/2026

No lifts running. No boot room lines. Just snowmelt finding its way downhill and the kind of quiet Aspen doesn't advertise.

If you've been here in the off-season, you know the feeling. The town slows down, the trails empty out, and the mountain gets to just be a mountain for a while.

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His mother sent him a goose down comforter. He turned it into a ski parka. Someone paid $250 for it after one run. That ...
05/16/2026

His mother sent him a goose down comforter. He turned it into a ski parka. Someone paid $250 for it after one run. That was 1947 (and that someone was Gary Cooper).

Klaus Obermeyer didn't set out to start a brand. He was a ski instructor in Aspen with a good idea and a sewing machine. But that first parka changed everything, because it solved a problem every skier had and no one else was fixing.

The rest? Literally our history.

Somewhere out there, these three are in their 40s. And if we had to guess, their kids are wearing Obermeyer too.That's h...
05/14/2026

Somewhere out there, these three are in their 40s. And if we had to guess, their kids are wearing Obermeyer too.

That's how it works. Someone puts you in a red suit, hands you skis that are taller than you are, and points you toward the mountain. You figure it out. You fall. You get back up. And twenty years later, you're doing the same thing for your kid.

Were you an Obermeyer kid? Are your kids now?

The off-season is its own kind of beautiful. Snow still on the peaks, green filling in below, and that golden hour light...
05/12/2026

The off-season is its own kind of beautiful. Snow still on the peaks, green filling in below, and that golden hour light that makes you remember why you live here. The mountain doesn't close. It just gets quieter.

There's something about this in-between time that skiers understand. The lifts stop, the trails dry out, and you start counting months instead of runs. But the mountain is still there, doing what it does. And if you've spent enough winters in a place like this, the off-season doesn't feel like waiting. It feels like catching your breath.

What's your favorite thing about mountain towns in the summer?

Before Obermeyer was a brand, it was a family. Nome helped build it. She brought the eye for design, the instinct for co...
05/10/2026

Before Obermeyer was a brand, it was a family. Nome helped build it.

She brought the eye for design, the instinct for color, and a way of moving through mountain life that still shows up in everything we make.

Every Obermeyer jacket has a little bit of Nome in it, whether it's the bold prints, the attention to fit, or the belief that what you wear on the mountain should feel as good as it looks.

Happy Mother's Day to the moms who pack the ski bags, wake up early for first chair, and make sure everyone's warm before they worry about themselves. Who taught you to ski?

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115 AABC
Aspen, CO
81611

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Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

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