"Marmot is an outdoor clothing as well as showing off products company established in 1974 as Marmot Hill Functions. The firm was founded in Grand Joint, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and two University of California, Santa Cruz pupils, David Huntley as well as Eric Reynolds, that shared the usual objective of making their own alpinism tools. Two years prior to the founding of Marmot, Boyce protected an order for the climbing clothing utilized in the movie The Eiger Permission starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the initial prototype equipment that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Boundaries, concerning the Colorado Outward Bound College. It was throughout this docudrama manufacturing that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later serviced Eiger Assent, saw the devices that Boyce was utilizing during the section filmed in Peru. Just before Xmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and also positioned the order that brought about the formation of the business in Grand Junction.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on another brand-new business opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a pair weeks, Marmot had actually sewn model resting bags utilizing the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for area testing. Reynolds and also Huntley invested seven evenings in a commercial icy meat locker comparing bags with and also without the Gore-Tex fabric, in addition to checking the bags under fire sprinklers. They were excited by what they saw and also transformed everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex manufactures.

Now based in Rohnert Park, The Golden State, Marmot is globally dispersed and also part of the Newell Brands."