"Marmot is an exterior clothing and showing off products firm established in 1974 as Marmot Hill Functions. The firm was founded in Grand Joint, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and also 2 College of California, Santa Cruz pupils, David Huntley as well as Eric Reynolds, that shared the usual objective of making their very own mountaineering devices. 2 years before the founding of Marmot, Boyce protected an order for the climbing clothing used in the film The Eiger Assent starring Clint Eastwood, and Huntley made the original model equipment that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic docudrama Trip to the Outer Purviews, concerning the Colorado Outward Bound College. It was throughout this documentary manufacturing that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later worked with Eiger Assent, saw the devices that Boyce was making use of throughout the section filmed in Peru. Simply before Christmas 1973, Mike Hoover called Boyce as well as positioned the order that brought about the development of the business in Grand Joint.

In 1976, Marmot ventured on an additional new business chance when Eric Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. L. Gore & Associates. Within a couple weeks, Marmot had actually sewn prototype resting bags using the then-new Gore-Tex fabric for area testing. Reynolds and Huntley spent 7 nights in a business icy meat storage locker comparing bags with as well as without the Gore-Tex fabric, along with checking the bags under fire sprinklers. They were excited by what they saw as well as altered everything in the Marmot line to Gore-Tex constructions.

Currently based in Rohnert Park, California, Marmot is worldwide dispersed and part of the Newell Brands."