All Things Kneissl

[Dave Petersen]

Web Photos

 

[Snowfan]

Winter of 75. Not sure what Ski Area. Maybe Squaw?

 

[Joal]

The White Wings have screwed on edges with black base overlay. Dave has a good shot of the surface in his post. The Bump Rider, Acrobat and Ballet have identical tail as Mark IV COMPs

185 Bump Rider, 195 White Star RS, 200 White Wing

220s, 195 White Star RS, 195, 170

 

[Dave Petersen]

Web Photo

I’ve seen this photo used in a Breckenridge poster.

 

[Dave Petersen]

The White Wings have screwed on edges with black base overlay. Dave has a good shot of the surface in his post. The Bump Rider, Acrobat and Ballet have identical tail as Mark IV COMPs

185 Bump Rider, 195 White Star RS, 200 White Wing
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220s, 195 White Star RS, 195, 170
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Is your collection never-ending?

 

[Dave Petersen]

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Winter of 75. Not sure what Ski Area. Maybe Squaw?

Pretty cool photo!

 

[Bad Bob]

From Pinterest

I’ve seen this photo used in a Breckenridge poster.
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That is Trygve Berge; he was the SS director of Breck for several years in the 60's. One of Stein Erickson's proteges (he had several). He had a ski shop downtown as well. I worked under him one season in High School. If memory serves me right he ended up getting busted for shoplifting or something equally ridiculous in the early 70's.

The guy could ski.

 

[Dave Petersen]

That is Trygve Berge; he was the SS director of Breck for several years in the 60's. One of Stein Erickson's proteges (he had several). He had a ski shop downtown as well. I worked under him one season in High School. If memory serves me right he ended up getting busted for shoplifting or something equally ridiculous in the early 70's.

The guy could ski.

..and wasn’t the Peak 8 Base Lodge and cafeteria named after him?

 

[Joal]

Is your collection never-ending?

Not never ending but still a few more cool things.

 

[Dave Petersen]

Web Photos

 

[Dave Petersen]

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Winter of 75. Not sure what Ski Area. Maybe Squaw?

photo of Snowfan

Hope you don't mind -- I like your photo and was trying to pull some color out of it in Photoshop (still pretty grainy).

It just brings me back to when I learned to ski in 1975 as a young teen.

 

[silverback]

Assuming that is from about 1970, adjusted for inflation a pair of White Stars was about $1300 in 2017 dollars.

 

[Doug Briggs]

Some White Star DHs. They came with (and I still have somewhere) Salomon 727s(?)

 

[Daniel]

I'm curious whether these vintage Kneissl White Star RS skis are a collectors' item. Can anyone provide an approximate date as to their vintage? Thanks!

 

[Royal]

The skis are probably 60's. they are collectible to about a half dozen people if the condition is good and the length if right (for the right price, read low the bindings are not original(or safe)

 

[Mack]

Some Kneissl ERGO-Race 200cm. ERGO 180cm With Salomon 757.
MACK.

 

[rpk4dotcom]

Can anyone provide an approximate date as to their vintage? Thanks!

I think the White Star graphics changed for 1968-1969. Kneissl ads for 1966 and 1967 reflect the white and black graphic. The only imagery I have seen pre 1966 is an illustration from a January 1975 SKI magazine article about classic skis of the 1962 Kneissl White Star, also the same white and black. According to the article, Kneissl introduced the White Star in 1961.

 

[Vintageski808]

Kniessl Compact skis and MC series

 

[Dave Petersen]

 

[Dave Petersen]