About Us | Polaris Parkway | 614-848-6600 | Columbus

Aspen Ski and Board is Located on Polaris Parkway Only in Northern Columbus. Take a tour of the 2015 Sia Retailer of the Year store HERE and read all about our origins below

Thank you for supporting a locally owned ski and snowboard shop.

Owner/Founder

Gil Harris

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While most people think that skiing was invented by the Norse as a means to assist in their hunting and transportation, skis were actually born at Aspen Ski and Board.

You're thinking to yourself, wait a second, Aspen Ski and Board has only been around since 1998.

Sure, we've had a shop since 1998. We've been underground ever since Mesopotamia was doing their thing with the fertile crescent. They were rocking out between the Tigris and Euphrates; we were shredding monster lines up in the nearby Caucuses. You think the rake was invented for farming? It was the first grooming machine, made by us shredsters at Aspen Ski and Board (you're welcome proto-farmers).

Columbus discovered America right? Negative.

Looking for new terrain, shop owner Gil Harris mounted a trans-Atlantic expedition-on skis of course. Shop Manager Chirs Reed came up with an ultra wide ski just for the trip, and although all of us here are snow fanatics, we accidentally created the sport of water skiing while we smoked the Santa Maria on the way to the New World. (Side Note: Pocahontas was disgusting on twin tips). Since our focus was on skiing and snowboarding, we let Chris Columbus get the credit and hey-they named our great city after him, no big deal.

Suffice it to say that the rest is very much history.

We could go on and cite Aspen Ski and Board's small contributions to society in the name of making snow sports more accessible to the population; yes we came up with surfing and snowboarding simultaneously, yes we nudged Henry Ford to create the Model T so he could get to the slopes before we tracked out the local mountains and yes, our very own Mike D discovered ice on Mars long before the Phoenix Lander arrived, as he had already slashed the pow on Mars like ten years ago. When the first incarnation of the Dalai Lama wanted to learn how to huck the Himalayas, we obliged. Look, the point is that Aspen Ski and Board has seen and done it all when it comes to skiing and snowboarding. Be it delivering the best products to you our valued customer, or setting up George Washington with a sick all-mountain package back when Mt. Vernon was the gnarliest of all ski hills-we've been there.

Today Aspen Ski and Board is the premier ski and snowboard specialty retailer in the country. With many years of business and countless customers served, there is no place better to come, and no people better to serve you than the pros at Aspen Ski and Board.

*ASBco. will not take responsibility for school children failing their history exams miserably by assuming any of this is true. But seriously, it happened- take Thai's word on it.