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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT
The Board of Directors and Shareholders of Columbia Sportswear Company:
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Columbia Sportswear Company and
subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the related consolidated statements of
operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31,
2003. Our audits also included the financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15. These financial
statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and financial statement schedule based on
our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of
America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about
whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall
financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial
position of the Company as of December 31, 2003 and 2002, and the results of their operations and their cash
flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2003, in conformity with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also, in our opinion, such financial statement
schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents,
fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
Portland, Oregon
March 3, 2004
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