Marmot Mountain Works GOING OUT OF BUSINESS

I will miss the great selection and even better staff at Marmot. They won my loyalty over the years and I never regretted paying a bit extra at Marmot rather than shopping the cheapest online retailer. I hope the staff can find another place to land or find some way to keep serving the BD skiing and climbing community. Please let us know if you do!

We dropped by over the weekend; Marmot's selection is still quite complete. If you need gear, odds are good that they'll set you up well.

Thank you Marmot for helping me to get in to AT in 1984.

where and when got my first pair of tech long johns, before they were called base layers.
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As if I needed another reason to mourn the loss of Marmot, I found out they were one of only four - soon to be three - Dynafit Competence Centers in the US. Any other shop in the area want to step up to the plate?

not in the area but try cripplecreekbc.com for a shop dedicated to bc w lots of Dynafit; a number of other e-shops.

Sorry to see a venerable local institution go. I live in Yakima and belong to the Cascadians (our little backwater version of the Mountaineers) and was always amazed at how many members trekked over the hill to buy their gear at MMW.

At The Mountaineers last evening, Eric and I chatted about the closing of Marmot Mountain Works.

I mentioned some photos I found in my brother Carl's collection of Lock Miller and others at a 1986 Chouinard Equipment ski camp in the Methow Valley, organized through Liberty Bell Alpine Tours. I thought you might enjoy seeing some of these pictures. Very 1980s....

Here's the Liberty Bell Alpine Tours chopper delivering camp participants to Silver Star col:



Here's Lock Miller with first-generation Dynafit boots and Ramer Grand Tour skis. I bought a pair of those skis from Marmot the following year and used them for nearly a decade:



Here's Lock cranking turns high on the Silver Star Glacier:



Here's a skier linking turns below one of the distinctive spires along the Silver Star Glacier:



Here's Yvon Chouinard the following day, near Golden Horn, testing the Tua skis that his company distributed:



Here's a shot of Carl looking suave in his Liberty Bell Alpine Tours guide suit. He's telemarking for some reason. Carl wasn't really a telemarker:   



Enjoy!

Thanks for the blast from the past, Lowell. 80's is right, but the camo look is back!

Lowell,   Thanks for posting the photos. I had Liberty Bell Alpine Tours drop us off on Gardner Mt.for a weekend of snow camping and touring. The Ramer gear photo reminds me of the Ramer skis, bindings,skins and poles we bought directly from Ramer at a UT event for Jill and me . We bought all the boots and stuff from Marmot.  Boy, that was a long time ago.