 The company began to make more tents and catered to the logging industry; some of the company's first clothes were waterproof garments for loggers.In 1929, Harold S. Hirsch, Max's 21-year-old son, returned to Portland after graduating from Dartmouth College, where he had enjoyed skiing.He began making downhill skiing apparel, starting with a ski suit, which Hirsch-Weis began marketing in 1931 as "White Stag", from the literal English translation of the parent company's names "weis" and "hirsch".