content: As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 28, 2003
                                                      Registration No.
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
  
                                                      ----------
  
                                      Form S-8
                               REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        Under
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                                      ----------
  
                             COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
  
           OREGON                                          93-0498284
  (State or other jurisdiction                 (IRS Employer Identification No.)
  of incorporation or organization)
  
  14375 NW Science Park Drive
        Portland, Oregon                                         97229
  (Address of Principal                                       (Zip Code)
  Executive Offices)
  
  
  
                             Columbia Sportswear Company
                        1997 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended
                                (Full title of plan)
  
                                    Bryan L. Timm
                               Chief Financial Officer
                             Columbia Sportswear Company
                             14375 NW Science Park Drive
                                 Portland, OR 97229
                       (Name and address of agent for service)
     Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (503) 985-4000
                                      Copy to:
  
                                   John R. Thomas
                                  Shawn M. Filippi
                                   Stoel Rives LLP
                           900 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2600
                             Portland, Oregon 97204-1268
  <PAGE>
  <TABLE>
  <CAPTION>
                           CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                           -------------------------------
                                                         Proposed Maximum       Proposed Maximum
   Title of Securities            Amount to Be          Offering Price Per     Aggregate Offering        Amount of
    to Be Registered              Registered(1)              Share(1)               Price(1)         Registration Fee
    ----------------              -------------              --------               --------         ----------------
  <S>                             <C>                         <C>                 <C>                     <C>
        Common Stock              68,864 Shares               $50.73              $3,493,470.72           $282.62
  </TABLE>
  
  (1)      The proposed maximum offering price per share and the proposed maximum
           aggregate offering price are estimated solely for the purpose of
           calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the
           Securities Act of 1933. The calculation of the registration fee shares
           is based on $50.73, which was the average of the high and low prices of
           the Common Stock on August 26, 2003 as reported by Nasdaq on
           www.nasdaq.com for Nasdaq National Market issues.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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                                       PART II
  
                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
  Item 3.       Incorporation of Documents By Reference.
                ---------------------------------------
  
                The following documents filed by Columbia Sportswear Company (the
  "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission are incorporated herein
  by reference:
  
                (a) The Company's latest annual report filed pursuant to Section
  13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  
                (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year covered by
  the annual report referred to in (a) above.
  
                (c) The description of the authorized capital stock of the Company
  contained in the Company's registration statement filed under Section 12 of the
  Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including any amendment or report filed for the
  purpose of updating the description.
  
                All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Company
  pursuant to sections 13(a) and (c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
  of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
  indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and
  documents.
  
  Item 4.       Description of Securities.
                -------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
  Item 5.       Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
                --------------------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
  Item 6.       Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
                -----------------------------------------
  
                Article IV of the Company's Third Restated Articles of
  Incorporation (the "Articles") requires indemnification of current or former
  directors of the Company to the fullest extent not prohibited by the Oregon
  Business Corporation Act (the "Act"). The Act permits or requires
  indemnification of directors and officers in certain circumstances. The effects
  of the Articles and the Act (the "Indemnification Provisions") are summarized as
  follows:
  
                (a) The Indemnification Provisions grant a right of
  indemnification in respect of any proceeding (other than an action by or in the
  right of the Company), if the person concerned acted in good faith and in a
  manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the Company, was not adjudged liable on the basis of receipt of an
  improper personal benefit and, with respect to any criminal action or
  proceeding, had no reasonable cause
  
  
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  <PAGE>
  to believe the conduct was unlawful. The termination of a proceeding by
  judgment, order, settlement, conviction or plea of nolo contendere, or its
  equivalent, is not, of itself, determinative that the person did not meet the
  required standards of conduct.
  
                (b) The Indemnification Provisions grant a right of
  indemnification in respect of any proceeding by or in the right of the Company
  against the expenses (including attorney fees) actually and reasonably incurred
  if the person concerned acted in good faith and in a manner the person
  reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
  Company, except that no right of indemnification will be granted if the person
  is adjudged to be liable to the Company.
  
                (c) Every person who has been wholly successful, on the merits or
  otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which the person was a party
  because of the person's status as a director or officer of a controversy
  described in (a) or (b) above is entitled to indemnification as a matter of
  right.
  
                (d) Because the limits of permissible indemnification under Oregon
  law are not clearly defined, the Indemnification Provisions may provide
  indemnification broader than that described in (a) and (b).
  
                (e) The Company may advance to a director or officer the expenses
  incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition if the
  director or officer affirms in writing in good faith that he or she has met the
  standard of conduct to be entitled to indemnification as described in (a) or (b)
  above and undertakes to repay any amount advanced if it is determined that the
  person did not meet the required standard of conduct.
  
                The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with each
  of the Company's directors pursuant to which the Company has agreed to indemnify
  each director to the maximum extent available under the Act, provided that the
  Board of Directors determines that the director seeking indemnification has met
  the applicable standards of conduct.
  
                The Company may obtain insurance for the protection of its
  directors and officers against any liability asserted against them in their
  official capacities. The rights of indemnification described above are not
  exclusive of any other rights of indemnification to which the persons
  indemnified may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or
  directors or otherwise.
  
  Item 7.       Exemption From Registration Claimed.
                -----------------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
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  <PAGE>
  
  
  Item 8.       Exhibits.
                --------
  
                4.1          Third Restated Articles of Incorporation
                             (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
                             Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                             quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  
                4.2          Articles of Amendment of Columbia Sportswear Company
                             (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
                             Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                             quarterly period ended June 30, 2002).
  
                4.3          2000 Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to
                             Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                             10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  
                5.1          Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  
                23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  
                23.2         Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  
                24.1         Powers of Attorney.
  
  Item 9.       Undertakings.
                ------------
  
                (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
  
                        (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales
                are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
                statement:
  
                                 (i) To include any prospectus required by section
                        10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
  
                                 (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                        events arising after the effective date of the
                        registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
                        amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                        aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                        information set forth in the registration statement.
                        Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in
                        volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
                        the securities offered would not exceed that which was
                        registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
                        the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in
                        the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant
                        to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
                        and price represent no more than a 20% change in the
                        maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
                        "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
                        registration statement;
  
                                 (iii) To include any material information with
                        respect to the plan of distribution not previously
                        disclosed in the registration statement or any material
                        change to such information in the registration statement;
  
                PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
                apply if the information required to be included in a
                post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or
                section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
                incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
  
  
  
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                        (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
                relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
                such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
                bona fide offering thereof.
  
                        (3) To remove from registration by means of a
                post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered
                which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
  
                (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
  purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
  filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section
  15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference
  in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
  relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
  at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
  
                (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
  Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
  persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
  the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
  Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
  in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
  indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
  registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
  person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
  proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
  connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
  the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
  submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
  indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
  be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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                                     SIGNATURES
  
                Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
  of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
  statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
  authorized, in the City of Portland, State of Oregon, on August 28, 2003.
  
  
                                                   COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY
  
  
  
                                                   By:  BRYAN L. TIMM
                                                        -------------------------
                                                        Bryan L. Timm
                                                        Chief Financial Officer
  
  
                Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities indicated on this 28th day of August 2003.
  
  
  
  Signature                           Title
  ---------                           -----
  
  * TIMOTHY P. BOYLE                  President, Chief Executive Officer
    -----------------------------     and Director
     Timothy P. Boyle                 (Principal Executive Officer)
  
  
    BRYAN L. TIMM                     Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
    -----------------------------     and Accounting Officer)
     Bryan L. Timm
  
  
  * GERTRUDE BOYLE                    Director
    -----------------------------
     Gertrude Boyle
  
  
  * SARAH BANY                        Director
    -----------------------------
     Sarah Bany
  
  
  * MURREY R. ALBERS                  Director
    -----------------------------
     Murrey R. Albers
  
  
  * EDWARD S. GEORGE                  Director
    -----------------------------
     Edward S. George
  
  
  
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  <PAGE>
  
  * JOHN STANTON                      Director
    -----------------------------
     John Stanton
  
  
  * WALTER KLENZ                      Director
    -----------------------------
     Walter Klenz
  
  
           *By:  CARL DAVIS
                 ----------------------------
                 Carl Davis, Attorney-in-Fact
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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                                    EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  
  Exhibit Number        Document Description
  4.1                   Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by
                        reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Quarterly Report
                        on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31,
                        2000).
  4.2                   Articles of Amendment of Columbia Sportswear Company
                        (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's
                        Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period
                        ended June 30, 2002).
  4.3                   2000 Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
                        3.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                        quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  5.1                   Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  23.1                  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  23.2                  Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  24.1                  Powers of Attorney.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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text: As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 28, 2003
                                                      Registration No.
  
                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               Washington, D.C. 20549
  
                                                      ----------
  
                                      Form S-8
                               REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                        Under
                             THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
  
                                                      ----------
  
                             COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY
               (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  
           OREGON                                          93-0498284
  (State or other jurisdiction                 (IRS Employer Identification No.)
  of incorporation or organization)
  
  14375 NW Science Park Drive
        Portland, Oregon                                         97229
  (Address of Principal                                       (Zip Code)
  Executive Offices)
  
                             Columbia Sportswear Company
                        1997 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended
                                (Full title of plan)
  
                                    Bryan L. Timm
                               Chief Financial Officer
                             Columbia Sportswear Company
                             14375 NW Science Park Drive
                                 Portland, OR 97229
                       (Name and address of agent for service)
     Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service: (503) 985-4000
                                      Copy to:
  
                                   John R. Thomas
                                  Shawn M. Filippi
                                   Stoel Rives LLP
                           900 SW Fifth Avenue, Suite 2600
                             Portland, Oregon 97204-1268
  CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
                           -------------------------------
                                                         Proposed Maximum       Proposed Maximum
   Title of Securities            Amount to Be          Offering Price Per     Aggregate Offering        Amount of
    to Be Registered              Registered(1)              Share(1)               Price(1)         Registration Fee
    ----------------              -------------              --------               --------         ----------------
  Common Stock              68,864 Shares               $50.73              $3,493,470.72           $282.62
  (1)      The proposed maximum offering price per share and the proposed maximum
           aggregate offering price are estimated solely for the purpose of
           calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(h) under the
           Securities Act of 1933. The calculation of the registration fee shares
           is based on $50.73, which was the average of the high and low prices of
           the Common Stock on August 26, 2003 as reported by Nasdaq on
           www.nasdaq.com for Nasdaq National Market issues.
  
                                         2
  PART II
  
                 INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
  
  Item 3.       Incorporation of Documents By Reference.
                ---------------------------------------
  
                The following documents filed by Columbia Sportswear Company (the
  "Company") with the Securities and Exchange Commission are incorporated herein
  by reference:
  
                (a) The Company's latest annual report filed pursuant to Section
  13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
  
                (b) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 since the end of the fiscal year covered by
  the annual report referred to in (a) above.
  
                (c) The description of the authorized capital stock of the Company
  contained in the Company's registration statement filed under Section 12 of the
  Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including any amendment or report filed for the
  purpose of updating the description.
  
                All reports and other documents subsequently filed by the Company
  pursuant to sections 13(a) and (c), 14 and 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act
  of 1934, as amended, prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
  indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
  all securities remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference
  herein and to be a part hereof from the date of the filing of such reports and
  documents.
  
  Item 4.       Description of Securities.
                -------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
  Item 5.       Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.
                --------------------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
  Item 6.       Indemnification of Directors and Officers.
                -----------------------------------------
  
                Article IV of the Company's Third Restated Articles of
  Incorporation (the "Articles") requires indemnification of current or former
  directors of the Company to the fullest extent not prohibited by the Oregon
  Business Corporation Act (the "Act"). The Act permits or requires
  indemnification of directors and officers in certain circumstances. The effects
  of the Articles and the Act (the "Indemnification Provisions") are summarized as
  follows:
  
                (a) The Indemnification Provisions grant a right of
  indemnification in respect of any proceeding (other than an action by or in the
  right of the Company), if the person concerned acted in good faith and in a
  manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best
  interests of the Company, was not adjudged liable on the basis of receipt of an
  improper personal benefit and, with respect to any criminal action or
  proceeding, had no reasonable cause
  
                                         3
  to believe the conduct was unlawful. The termination of a proceeding by
  judgment, order, settlement, conviction or plea of nolo contendere, or its
  equivalent, is not, of itself, determinative that the person did not meet the
  required standards of conduct.
  
                (b) The Indemnification Provisions grant a right of
  indemnification in respect of any proceeding by or in the right of the Company
  against the expenses (including attorney fees) actually and reasonably incurred
  if the person concerned acted in good faith and in a manner the person
  reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the
  Company, except that no right of indemnification will be granted if the person
  is adjudged to be liable to the Company.
  
                (c) Every person who has been wholly successful, on the merits or
  otherwise, in the defense of any proceeding to which the person was a party
  because of the person's status as a director or officer of a controversy
  described in (a) or (b) above is entitled to indemnification as a matter of
  right.
  
                (d) Because the limits of permissible indemnification under Oregon
  law are not clearly defined, the Indemnification Provisions may provide
  indemnification broader than that described in (a) and (b).
  
                (e) The Company may advance to a director or officer the expenses
  incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition if the
  director or officer affirms in writing in good faith that he or she has met the
  standard of conduct to be entitled to indemnification as described in (a) or (b)
  above and undertakes to repay any amount advanced if it is determined that the
  person did not meet the required standard of conduct.
  
                The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with each
  of the Company's directors pursuant to which the Company has agreed to indemnify
  each director to the maximum extent available under the Act, provided that the
  Board of Directors determines that the director seeking indemnification has met
  the applicable standards of conduct.
  
                The Company may obtain insurance for the protection of its
  directors and officers against any liability asserted against them in their
  official capacities. The rights of indemnification described above are not
  exclusive of any other rights of indemnification to which the persons
  indemnified may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of shareholders or
  directors or otherwise.
  
  Item 7.       Exemption From Registration Claimed.
                -----------------------------------
  
                Not Applicable.
  
                                         4
  Item 8.       Exhibits.
                --------
  
                4.1          Third Restated Articles of Incorporation
                             (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
                             Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                             quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  
                4.2          Articles of Amendment of Columbia Sportswear Company
                             (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the
                             Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                             quarterly period ended June 30, 2002).
  
                4.3          2000 Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to
                             Exhibit 3.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                             10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  
                5.1          Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  
                23.1         Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  
                23.2         Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  
                24.1         Powers of Attorney.
  
  Item 9.       Undertakings.
                ------------
  
                (a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:
  
                        (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales
                are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration
                statement:
  
                                 (i) To include any prospectus required by section
                        10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;
  
                                 (ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
                        events arising after the effective date of the
                        registration statement (or the most recent post-effective
                        amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
                        aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the
                        information set forth in the registration statement.
                        Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in
                        volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of
                        the securities offered would not exceed that which was
                        registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of
                        the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in
                        the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant
                        to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume
                        and price represent no more than a 20% change in the
                        maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
                        "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective
                        registration statement;
  
                                 (iii) To include any material information with
                        respect to the plan of distribution not previously
                        disclosed in the registration statement or any material
                        change to such information in the registration statement;
  
                PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) do not
                apply if the information required to be included in a
                post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
                periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or
                section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are
                incorporated by reference in the registration statement.
  
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  (2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability
                under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective
                amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
                relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of
                such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
                bona fide offering thereof.
  
                        (3) To remove from registration by means of a
                post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered
                which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
  
                (b) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for
  purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each
  filing of the registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section
  15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that is incorporated by reference
  in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
  relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
  at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
  
                (c) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
  Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
  persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
  the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
  Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
  in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
  indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
  registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
  person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
  proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
  connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
  the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
  submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
  indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
  be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
  
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  SIGNATURES
  
                Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the
  Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
  of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
  statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
  authorized, in the City of Portland, State of Oregon, on August 28, 2003.
  
                                                   COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR COMPANY
  
                                                   By:  BRYAN L. TIMM
                                                        -------------------------
                                                        Bryan L. Timm
                                                        Chief Financial Officer
  
                Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
  registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the
  capacities indicated on this 28th day of August 2003.
  
  Signature                           Title
  ---------                           -----
  
  * TIMOTHY P. BOYLE                  President, Chief Executive Officer
    -----------------------------     and Director
     Timothy P. Boyle                 (Principal Executive Officer)
  
    BRYAN L. TIMM                     Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial
    -----------------------------     and Accounting Officer)
     Bryan L. Timm
  
  * GERTRUDE BOYLE                    Director
    -----------------------------
     Gertrude Boyle
  
  * SARAH BANY                        Director
    -----------------------------
     Sarah Bany
  
  * MURREY R. ALBERS                  Director
    -----------------------------
     Murrey R. Albers
  
  * EDWARD S. GEORGE                  Director
    -----------------------------
     Edward S. George
  
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  * JOHN STANTON                      Director
    -----------------------------
     John Stanton
  
  * WALTER KLENZ                      Director
    -----------------------------
     Walter Klenz
  
           *By:  CARL DAVIS
                 ----------------------------
                 Carl Davis, Attorney-in-Fact
  
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  EXHIBIT INDEX
  
  Exhibit Number        Document Description
  4.1                   Third Restated Articles of Incorporation (incorporated by
                        reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Quarterly Report
                        on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31,
                        2000).
  4.2                   Articles of Amendment of Columbia Sportswear Company
                        (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's
                        Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period
                        ended June 30, 2002).
  4.3                   2000 Restated Bylaws (incorporated by reference to Exhibit
                        3.2 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                        quarterly period ended March 31, 2000).
  5.1                   Opinion of Stoel Rives LLP.
  23.1                  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
  23.2                  Consent of Stoel Rives LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
  24.1                  Powers of Attorney.
  
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