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If you own a down jacket, here’s who to thank…

Monday, February 8th, 2010
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Klaus Obermeyer, founder of an Aspen, Colo. sportswear company bearing his name, is 90 years old this winter. And he can beat you or me down the mountain any day. Had a chance to visit him earlier this year…here’s the column from ColoradoBiz.

SportsBiz: Aspen’s Better Man

From ColoradoBiz Magazine, February 2010

Klaus Obermeyer, who lives, works and skis in Aspen, wasn’t supposed to end up in Colorado, making clothes for a living. Educated in pre-war Germany as an aeronautical engineer, Obermeyer was supposed to spend his professional life huddling over drafting tables as he puzzled over propulsion theories and celestial mechanics.

But when he came to the U.S. in 1947, the airplane business, post-war and pre-Boeing 707, was in a slump. The only engineers getting hired were rocket scientists.

“I was out of work,” Obermeyer remembers. “And I thought, ‘Well, I can always be a ski instructor.’” (more…)

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