Christian Rawles

Proprietor

You would never guess Christian grew up in Texas by hearing him talk or watching him ski. Going from the balmy winters of Texas to the comparatively harsh climate of Canmore allows him to do 10 months of product testing a year. Christian started his career at Ambler in the back of the warehouse packing orders and cutting patterns. He moved from the warehouse into managing production and logistics and then into the role of sales manager. It got to the point that there was only one position left in the company that he hadn't taken on yet, so in December of 2009 Christian and his wife Jackie became the owners of Ambler.

If you call Ambler and Christian doesn't answer the phone he's either playing with his son, pedaling singletrack or ski touring.

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