"Marmot is an outside clothes and also sporting items company founded in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The firm was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by regional resident Tom Boyce and also 2 University of The golden state, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley as well as Eric Reynolds, who shared the typical goal of making their own alpinism devices. Two years prior to the starting of Marmot, Boyce protected an order for the climbing up clothing utilized in the film The Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the initial model equipment that Boyce was utilizing on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic docudrama Journey to the Outer Boundaries, concerning the Colorado Outward Bound Institution. It was throughout this docudrama production that cameraman Mike Hoover, that later on dealt with Eiger Permission, saw the equipment that Boyce was utilizing during the section shot in Peru. Simply prior to Xmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and also put the order that resulted in the development of the business in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on another brand-new organisation opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks, Marmot had stitched prototype resting bags making use of the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for field screening. Reynolds and Huntley invested seven evenings in a commercial icy meat storage locker contrasting bags with and also without the Gore-Tex fabric, in addition to evaluating the bags under fire lawn sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw and changed every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex manufactures.

Currently based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is internationally distributed as well as part of the Newell Brands."