{"id":6188,"date":"2016-08-10T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=6188"},"modified":"2016-08-10T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T22:00:15","slug":"ramp-sports-appears-jumped-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/10\/ramp-sports-appears-jumped-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"RAMP Sports appears to have jumped into the abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Park City ski, board, and long board\u00a0maker RAMP Sports appears to have closed up shop. The company&#8217;s\u00a0facility, that used to be near the Home Depot, now sports a &#8220;For Lease&#8221; sign.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Facebook post by a sponsored skier, the company had an investor pull out. That&#8217;s too bad for a company who tried to do it differently. Their philosophy seemed summed up by this quote from\u00a0their website&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Many popular skis and snowboards are manufactured in Asia where workers are paid $200\/month building products with cheap materials and no environmental constraints. At RAMP, we feel certain that consumers would rather buy products built with new technology, high-end materials, clean best practices, and are made by people who love skiing and riding.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It makes us hopeful that Armada will survive.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any more insight into what happened, we would love to know more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/ramp-sports-appears-jumped-abyss\/rampdone\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6190\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/rampdone.jpg\" alt=\"rampdone\" width=\"498\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t to the Friend of the Park Rag who provided this info.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Park City ski, board, and long board\u00a0maker RAMP Sports appears to have closed up shop. The company&#8217;s\u00a0facility, that used to be near the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}