please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message marmot mountain llc . type subsidiary of jarden founded 1974 headquarters rohnert park california key people mark martin products clothing tents slogan marmot for life website www.marmot.com marmot is an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as marmot mountain works . 1 the company was founded in grand junction colorado by local resident tom boyce and two university of california santa cruz students david huntley and eric reynolds who shared the common goal of making their own mountaineering equipment . citation needed two years prior to the founding of marmot boyce secured an order for the climbing apparel used in the movie eiger sanction starring clint eastwood and huntley made the original prototype gear that boyce was using on the wolper productions national geographic documentary journey to the outer limits about the colorado outward bound school . it was during this documentary production that cameraman mike hoover who later worked on eiger sanction saw the equipment that boyce was using during the portion filmed in peru . just prior to christmas 1973 mike hoover called boyce and placed the order that led to the formation of the company in grand junction . in 1976 marmot ventured on another new business opportunity when eric reynolds met joe tanner of w. l. gore & associates . within a couple weeks marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then new gore tex fabric for field testing . reynolds and huntley spent seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the gore tex fabric as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers . they were impressed by what they saw and changed everything in the marmot line to gore tex fabrications . now based in rohnert park ca marmot is globally distributed and part of the newell brands . 2 references edit marmot 2006 . marmot s history . url accessed march 12 2007 . outdoor solutions . www.newellbrands.com . retrieved 2016 07 15 . horizontal tab character in title at position 6 help external links edit official website v t e jarden branded consumables first alert jarden home brands diamond pine mountain ball bernardin lehigh crawford mapa loew cornell united states playing card company waddington yankee candle consumer solutions bionaire breville uk crock pot foodsaver health o meter holmes mr. coffee oster patton rival sunbeam villaware outdoor solutions adio coleman exofficio jostens k2 madshus marker marmot pure fishing abu garcia berkley penn shakespeare rawlings v lkl process solutions jarden zinc products resistat rino tuff weed warrior yorker this article related to a manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marmot company & oldid 739629838 categories outdoor clothing brandscamping equipment manufacturerssporting goods retailers of the united statesretail companies of the united statesmountaineering equipment manufacturerspearson plcretail companies established in 19741974 establishments in californiacompanies based in sonoma county californiamanufacturing companies based in californiaretail companies based in californiamanufacturing company stubshidden categories cs1 errors invisible charactersarticles with a promotional tone from april 2014all articles with a promotional tonearticles needing additional references from april 2014all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2014all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch polski edit links this page was last modified on 15 september 2016 at 22 10 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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