The Legend, C.B. Vaughan, Jr.

RealSkiers

My guest on this week’s edition of Realskiers with Jackson Hogen is a member of a couple of ultra-exclusive fraternities, as he was both a world speed record holder and a man so highly regarded that he can still be identified with just two tidy initials, C.B. C.B. Vaughan set a world record in speed skiing in 1963, going 106.89 mph on regular downhill gear, at Portillo, Chile. I talk to CB about setting the record, of course, but there’s another big topic on the table, the creation of a spectacularly successful clothing brand bearing his name, with four factories and hundreds of employees. We chat about what made CB Sports so popular, as well as re-visiting a ski career that culminated in the world record he shared with Dick Dorworth, a ski/climbing legend in his own right.