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Tenaya is a Spanish company that makes some of the most comfortable climbing shoes I have tried.
Mammut is top notch. I love their gear. I never see them in the US.
I’m switching a lot to mammut. Their clothes are like nothing i have ever worn before. Their ultralight clothing line is like wearing nothing.
Mammut is fairly common in shops catering to non-tourists. Some of the American brands listed (Mountain Hardware and Columbia) are not brands people entrust their lives to.
SOURCE: I live in Wyoming. Only tourists wear Columbia.
PS: My wife should be sponsored by Rab. It’s all she wears in the winter.
Agree, I’m in Colorado and Mammut is well loved here (I own a Mammut jacket myself). Haglöfs makes top-notch backpacks and I wore exclusively Salomon shoes for over a decade before switching to zero-drop.
Most of these European brands are pretty easily found here if you know where to look. As for the American brands, Columbia is utter trash and Marmot isn’t much better.
Don’t get anything made of GoreTex as that is produced by American company W. L. Gore & Associates. Fjellräven has decent cotton products that lasts. Personally I prefer Norwegian brand Bergans. You also have Härkila (finish) and Klättermusen (Swedish) last one primally focuses on light weight climbing gear
Don’t get GoreTex because it’s using PFAS chemicals which are harmful to the nature we’re out there to enjoy.
