"Marmot is an outdoor clothes and also sporting products firm founded in 1974 as Marmot Hill Functions. The business was founded in Grand Joint, Colorado by neighborhood resident Tom Boyce and also two College of The golden state, Santa Cruz trainees, David Huntley and also Eric Reynolds, who shared the usual goal of making their very own alpinism equipment. Two years before the starting of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing up garments utilized in the movie The Eiger Assent starring Clint Eastwood, as well as Huntley made the initial prototype gear that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic docudrama Trip to the Outer Purviews, regarding the Colorado Outward Bound Institution. It was throughout this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later on worked on Eiger Permission, saw the devices that Boyce was utilizing throughout the section filmed in Peru. Simply before Xmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce as well as put the order that brought about the development of the business in Grand Junction.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on one more brand-new company opportunity when Eric Reynolds fulfilled Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks, Marmot had sewn prototype resting bags making use of the then-new Gore-Tex material for area testing. Reynolds as well as Huntley spent seven evenings in a commercial icy meat locker comparing bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex textile, in addition to testing the bags under fire sprinklers. They were thrilled by what they saw and also transformed every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex constructions.

Currently based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is around the world distributed and also part of the Newell Brands."