"Marmot is an outside apparel as well as sporting goods company founded in 1974 as Marmot Hill Works. The business was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by regional resident Tom Boyce as well as 2 University of California, Santa Cruz pupils, David Huntley and also Eric Reynolds, who shared the common objective of making their own alpinism devices. 2 years before the beginning of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing up clothing made use of in the film The Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood, and also Huntley made the original prototype equipment that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic docudrama Journey to the Outer Boundaries, about the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was throughout this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, that later worked with Eiger Sanction, saw the devices that Boyce was using during the section shot in Peru. Just before Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and put the order that caused the development of the company in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on another new company possibility when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a pair weeks, Marmot had actually sewn model resting bags making use of the then-new Gore-Tex textile for area screening. Reynolds and Huntley spent 7 evenings in a business icy meat storage locker comparing bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex textile, in addition to checking the bags under attack sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw as well as altered every little thing in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex constructions.

Now based in Rohnert Park, The Golden State, Marmot is worldwide distributed and part of the Newell Brands."