"Marmot is an outside clothes as well as showing off goods firm established in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works. The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and 2 University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and also Eric Reynolds, that shared the common goal of making their own alpinism equipment. Two years prior to the founding of Marmot, Boyce safeguarded an order for the climbing clothing used in the movie The Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood, and also Huntley made the initial model gear that Boyce was making use of on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, about the Colorado Outward Bound College. It was throughout this docudrama production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later worked with Eiger Sanction, saw the equipment that Boyce was making use of throughout the part shot in Peru. Just prior to Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce and positioned the order that led to the development of the business in Grand Junction.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on an additional brand-new business opportunity when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a pair weeks, Marmot had actually sewn prototype sleeping bags making use of the then-new Gore-Tex material for area testing. Reynolds and Huntley spent seven evenings in an industrial frozen meat storage locker contrasting bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex fabric, along with evaluating the bags under attack sprinklers. They were impressed by what they saw and also transformed everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex constructions.

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