"Marmot is an outside clothing as well as showing off goods firm established in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The business was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by neighborhood resident Tom Boyce as well as two College of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and also Eric Reynolds, who shared the common goal of making their very own alpinism equipment. Two years before the starting of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing apparel utilized in the movie The Eiger Assent starring Clint Eastwood, as well as Huntley made the initial model gear that Boyce was utilizing on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, regarding the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was throughout this docudrama production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later dealt with Eiger Permission, saw the tools that Boyce was using throughout the section shot in Peru. Just prior to Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and also put the order that resulted in the development of the firm in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on one more new organisation chance when Eric Reynolds satisfied Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks, Marmot had actually stitched prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Tex textile for field screening. Reynolds and also Huntley invested seven nights in a business frozen meat storage locker contrasting bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex fabric, as well as evaluating the bags under fire sprinklers. They were excited by what they saw as well as altered every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex constructions.

Currently based in Rohnert Park, The Golden State, Marmot is internationally distributed and also part of the Newell Brands."