Marmot

The Marmot club began in Alaska on the Juneau Icefields during a school project in Glaciology in the summer 1971. The credo to belong was you had to climb a glaciated peak, and everyone was president. Through out that summer and each semester until 1973, University of California Santa Cruz students Eric Reynolds and Dave Huntley made prototypes of down products in their dorm room in Santa Cruz. Their first products were a down vest, a sweater and a parka and, later, three down sleeping bags. In the fall of 1974 the fledgling Marmot Company hit the big time, supplying 108 very puffy jackets for 20th Century Fox’s filming of ’The Eiger Sanction’ with Clint Eastwood. One of the first to test (in meat lockers and under fire sprinklers) and incorporate Gore-Tex fabric, the Marmot team soon changed everything in the line to Gore-Tex fabrications, including the down garments and all the sleeping bags. Marmot designed the first Gore-Tex bivy sack, and a Gore-Tex, single fabric layer, mountaineering tent: the Taku. The oldest customer of Gore in the world outdoor market, the company has not changed much in twenty-nine years. It is still all about the highest quality performance materials and products...and everybody is president.

Featured Jackets for this season include:

1. Marmot Precip Jacket
2. Women's Marmot Exum Jacket