In September 2012, DPS founder Stephan Drake traveled to Valle Nevado, Chile to test skis with DPS' Piers Solomon and Claudio Iglesias. While the conditions were considerably low tide?the second consecutive year of drought for the Andes, the crew had some fun and came back with more data and direction to keep tweaking the DPS Pure: Carbon + Nano recipe. Stay tuned for these updates in 2013...
Summer is a skier's season to dream. It's also the season of DPS' birth: the ideas that drive the brand were nurtured while hunkered down in large storms and on pow-chasing missions in South America. Summer is also the time when skiers wallow in heat, and work hard to save enough money to take the next season off to travel and ski. For some, it's the time to dream of your perfect quiver, and indulge in heat-induced daydreams of cold smoke. For Dreamtime '14, the doorman returns. Watch how heat-induced daydreams of South American cold smoke take hold, as he toils through mid-summer heat. And don't forget to shop Dreamtime, the only time DPS skis are discounted for the 14/15 season, and your chance to take advantage of an array of special release models and one-time offers. Contact DPS if you need help or have any questions: info@dpsskis.com, +1.801.413.1737.
Heavy sun and low snow has left Valle Nevado ski area reduced to bare rock, a lost season. Lifts shut down and skiers flee towards Santiago in droves. Hot tubs and pisco prevail for the DPS crew. But one morning they awake to find condors filling the sky--scavenging to prepare for an oncoming storm. While the resort hunkers down and weathers the whiteout, they disappear into clouds that boil with a meter of snow. The desert becomes an ethereal sanctuary, dissolving into the sky.
DPS Skis Cinematic presents four short films coming Fall 2015, in association with Gore-Tex and Outdoor Research...
The Koalas return in their second Cinematic campaign touching down in Japan, Italy, and Switzerland for four festival-submitted short films. The Cinematic dream has always been chasing deep storms, and 2015 delivered. Step into cold, relentless Hokkaido storms and old world Alps exploration.The Koalas reach into the quiver, riding the range from the Wailer 99, Lotus 120, and the DPS Spoon. Stephan Drake, Santi Guzman, Olof Larsson, and Piers Solomon join forces for timeless pow-riding. Turn up the volume and enter full screen for the HD experience...
A massive snowstorm consumes Hokkaido, crushing everything under wind and snow with unrelenting force. Three wanderers push forward through the blindness of this elemental world, all the weight of winter pressing down upon them.
