Story

In the summer of 2005, Shaggy’s Copper Country was founded with the intention of producing a ski that wasn’’t a slug! For too long, the skiing community has been

plagued with mediocre products built for the masses. SCC plans to change that. Our mission is to build a ski that takes all you can give it and comes crawling back for more, day after day. There is no compromise when it comes to producing a top notch ski, from our hand selected hardwood cores to the final tune, we personally inspect and perfect every ski sold.

In 1908, our great uncle Shaggy Lehto built 3 pair of wooden skis, one of which has been handed down through the generations. In 2005, shortly after the Thompson Family had started building skis, these skis ended up in our hands. As the company started to form we asked ourselves what to name it. When Jeff suggested Shaggy, we all loved it. And so Shaggy’s Copper Country  was born. Now we know that most people don’’t know what the Copper Country is; so let us explain. The Copper Country is a small area of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan known as the Keweenaw Peninsula. From 1845 to the late 1960’s it was the world’s greatest producing region for copper. The area still has a rich heritage from the copper mining day and is known to this day as the Copper Country.

How does this all tie together? Shaggy was born and raised in Kearsarge, MI, which is in the heart of the Copper Country. Unlike the rest of the family Shaggy was not a miner, he was the village Blacksmith. As time went on, he became tired of working iron and steel and started a hobby of wood carving. What better to carve than skis? With close to 300” inches of annual snowfall there was a need for skis and he fed that need.

It is with great honor and a sense of pride that we use his name and hope that Shaggy is as proud of us as we are of him.

-Jeff, John, and Jonathon