Skullcandy was born the son of a notorious and irreverent extreme sports addict. Rick Alden one day receives a call on his cell phone while he was riding a chairlift to snowboard. At that moment he was listening to music, and while he frantically took off his gloves and disconnected the headphones he had an idea: “to be able to listen to music and answer calls at the same time. That idea, in that chairlift, that day, was the foundation on which Skullcady was founded.