{"id":1806,"date":"2008-03-07T09:36:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/07\/bay-area-gear-brands\/"},"modified":"2008-03-07T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T17:37:58","slug":"bay-area-gear-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/07\/bay-area-gear-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area gear brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainhardwear.com\/\">Mountain Hardwear<\/a> got me thinking about other name brands in the region. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenorthface.com\/na\/index.html\">The North Face<\/a> is the most obvious &#8212; they still have a marketing and distribution arm in San Leandro. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marmot.com\/\">Marmot<\/a> is up in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernmountaineering.com\/\">Western Mountaineering<\/a>, the sleeping bag people, are still based in San Jose and still sewing their bags on-site, the last I heard. <\/p>\n<p>Pretty much all have the same story: hippie backpacker types starting from scratch back in the &#8217;70s. North Face seems the most self-congratulatory; WM seems the most humble; Marmot&#8217;s some where in between (most earnest, perhaps?).<\/p>\n<p>What other brands do the rest of you know about? I did some looking around on Google and found out it&#8217;s harder to figure out these things than you might suspect. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorindustry.org\/about.memberlist.php\">The Outdoor Industry Association&#8217;s member page<\/a> is a dead link (they&#8217;re only too happy to <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.insightd.net\/oia\/member.join.script\">join you up<\/a>, though). <\/p>\n<p>As always, your contributions compensate for my absence of knowledge, skill, ambition, etc. (this is what we love about user-generated content). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about Mountain Hardwear got me thinking about other name brands in the region. The North Face is the most obvious &#8212; they still have a marketing and distribution arm in San Leandro. Marmot is up in Santa Rosa.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2008\/03\/07\/bay-area-gear-brands\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[34],"tags":[501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}