"Marmot is an outdoor clothes and sporting products company founded in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The business was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by neighborhood resident Tom Boyce and also two University of The golden state, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley as well as Eric Reynolds, that shared the typical objective of making their own mountaineering tools. 2 years before the starting of Marmot, Boyce secured an order for the climbing up garments made use of in the movie The Eiger Assent starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the initial prototype equipment that Boyce was making use of on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, regarding the Colorado Outward Bound School. It was during this docudrama manufacturing that cameraman Mike Hoover, that later serviced Eiger Permission, saw the equipment that Boyce was making use of during the part recorded in Peru. Just before Xmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and also positioned the order that led to the development of the business in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on one more brand-new organisation opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a pair weeks, Marmot had stitched prototype sleeping bags utilizing the then-new Gore-Tex material for area screening. Reynolds as well as Huntley invested 7 evenings in a commercial icy meat locker contrasting bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex material, in addition to testing the bags under fire sprinklers. They were excited by what they saw and also changed everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex manufactures.

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