Peak Ski Co. shutters amid allegations of mismanagement, lack of payment at Montana ski-maker

June 17, 2025

After one of the most successful ski launches ever, Peak Ski Co. has collapsed amid acrimony and claims of mismanagement by the high-profile founders of the Montana-based ski-maker.

“It’s such a sad story. It did not need to go down this way,” says Aspen big-mountain skiing legend Chris Davenport, who joined Peak Ski Co. in 2022 as a senior director of skiing and product innovation.

The paychecks stopped coming in shortly after Davenport signed on. Same for freeskiing icon Michelle Parker, who also joined Peak in 2022 as both a big-name athlete and a head of product design.

Davenport and Parker are lawyered up. They have spent months trying to reach the founders of Peak Ski Co., resort industry veteran Andy Wirth and former ski racing superstar Bode Miller. Colorado Sun