"Marmot is an outdoor clothing as well as showing off goods company established in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Functions. The firm was founded in Grand Joint, Colorado by regional resident Tom Boyce and also 2 University of California, Santa Cruz pupils, David Huntley as well as Eric Reynolds, who shared the typical goal of making their very own alpinism tools. Two years before the founding of Marmot, Boyce protected an order for the climbing up apparel made use of in the film The Eiger Permission starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the initial prototype gear that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Trip to the Outer Boundaries, concerning the Colorado Outward Bound College. It was throughout this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, that later on worked on Eiger Sanction, saw the equipment that Boyce was making use of during the portion filmed in Peru. Simply prior to Xmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and placed the order that led to the development of the company in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on another new business chance when Eric Reynolds satisfied Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks, Marmot had actually stitched prototype resting bags utilizing the then-new Gore-Tex material for area screening. Reynolds and also Huntley invested seven evenings in an industrial icy meat locker contrasting bags with and also without the Gore-Tex fabric, as well as checking the bags under attack lawn sprinklers. They were excited by what they saw and transformed every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex fabrications.

Now based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is around the world distributed as well as part of the Newell Brands."