"Marmot is an outside clothing and also showing off goods company established in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The business was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and 2 University of The golden state, Santa Cruz trainees, David Huntley and also Eric Reynolds, who shared the typical objective of making their own alpinism devices. 2 years before the beginning of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing up clothing utilized in the movie The Eiger Permission starring Clint Eastwood, as well as Huntley made the initial prototype equipment that Boyce was making use of on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Trip to the Outer Boundaries, concerning the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was throughout this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, that later worked with Eiger Permission, saw the tools that Boyce was utilizing during the section shot in Peru. Simply prior to Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and positioned the order that brought about the formation of the business in Grand Junction.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on one more new service possibility when Eric Reynolds satisfied Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a pair weeks, Marmot had stitched prototype resting bags utilizing the then-new Gore-Tex textile for field testing. Reynolds and also Huntley spent seven evenings in a commercial icy meat storage locker contrasting bags with and also without the Gore-Tex material, in addition to evaluating the bags under attack sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw and also altered every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex manufactures.

Currently based in Rohnert Park, The Golden State, Marmot is internationally dispersed as well as part of the Newell Brands."