

Marmot has grown quite a bit since our humble beginnings in 1974, but one thing has never changed our commitment to designing the highest quality performance product. Today, Marmot is the oldest customer of W.L. They liked what they saw and immediately changed everything in the line to Gore-Tex fabrications. He and Dave proceeded to spend seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers. He was intrigued, and within a couple weeks had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the new Gore-Tex fabric for field testing. to see a new concept in outdoor performance fabrication called Gore-Tex.
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In 1976, another meeting would change the future of Marmot when Eric met Joe Tanner of W.L. Marmot Halo Footprint - 4 Person 2783-1440-ONE Color: Slate Grey, Tent Accessory Type: Footprints, w/ Free S&H Product Info Specifications Specifications for. Within a week, the Marmots had designed the Golden Mantle (very puffy jacket). "No problem", said Tom, "we were working on that when you called." Well, they weren't, but they then did.
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He was calling on behalf of 20th Century Fox who were filming a movie called The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood, and needed 108 very puffy jackets. A few weeks after his return, Tom received a call from Mike. That fall, Tom was climbing in Peru where he met famed adventure filmmaker Mike Hoover. Thus, in the spring of 1974, Marmot the company was born. They taught cross-country skiing in the winter to get by. The following spring, Eric and Dave joined Tom in Grand Junction where they rented a 100 year old stone building near downtown and opened a rental and retail shop under the name of Marmot Mountain Works. In the winter of 1973, Eric did an ascent of the Grand Teton in Wyoming with Tom Boyce of Grand Junction, Colorado. The warmest bag, the PIKA (now known as the CWM) was rated at -45 degrees F. Their first products were a down vest, a sweater and a parka and, later, three down sleeping bags.

Throughout that summer and over the next two years, Eric and Dave also began making prototypes of down products in their dorm room. Most of the other rules dealt with a collegiate fascination for bodily functions. An oversize double-door and side D-shaped door makes it. One of the rules of the club was that everyone was President. The Marmot Halo 4-Person Tent offers tons of livable space, thanks to its innovative pole structure. To become a Marmot, you had to climb a glaciated peak with another Marmot. The name 'Marmot' refers to a group of highly social, large ground squirrels that live in mountainous areas. It was there on a glacier that the idea of a Marmot Club began. In April 1971, University of California Santa Cruz students Eric Reynolds and Dave Huntley were in Alaska's Juneau Icefield on a school Glaciology project.
