Timeline

56 Years of Hart– An American Tradition

1955:  Hartvig, his brother Harry, and friend Ed Bjork begin production metal-edged skis.  Harry, a ski design engineer for Gregg Skis, knew that a seamless metal edge, or a “metal ski” was the next innovation in ski construction.  With Hartvig’s manufacturing techniques and Harry’s ski designs, hart skis were born.

1960s:  hart Skis dominates the U.S. ski market.  At its peak in 1967, the company achieved global brand status with 40% market share;  144,000 paris of skis were shipped resulting in a $14 million revenue.  In 1966, hart Skis producedthe Javelin, one of the first metal and fiberglass skis.

1970s:  Olympic Medalist Billy Kidd wins the Worldwide Championship Professional competition on hart skis.  hart also is endorsed by other Seventies stars like Suzie Chaffee and Hank Kashiwa.

1980s:  hart skis dominates in freestyle competitions throughout the Eighties.  In 1984, hart introduces another ski first— the “Comp” — a design that offers great performance, lightness, and versitility.  This is the first ski to be crafted with wood okume and honeycomb structure in aluminum.

1990s:  Jonny Moseley, inventor of the first inverted aerial jump,  skis for hart as he develops in an Olympic Gold Medal Skier in 1998.  Liz McIntrye win the silver medal on hart’s F17 skis.  Throughout the Nineties,  hart athletes dominate the World of Freestyle.

2000s:  hart athlete Michael Morse wins the U.S. Freestyle Single and Dual Mogul Championships on hart F17s.  The Brand gained further national visibility  when Patrick Deneen,  2008 World Cup Rookie of the Year, won the 2009 World Cup Gold Medal at the FIS World Cup Freestyle Championship in Inawashiro, Japan on March 7, 2009.

Philippe Marquis is awarded 2009 Rookie of the Year on his hart F17 Classic skis.

At the end of March 2009,  Michelle Roark—on her special Phi-Nomenal® F17 skis) won the U.S. Nationals Women’s Moguls, and Bryon Wilson won the Men’s.  With all four U.S. men and one woman on the 2010 U.S. Olympic Mogul Team, and Bryon Wilson winning Bronze in Vancouver, hart is once again on the forefront of Freestyle Mogul skiing worldwide.