Parnters and Sponsors

Petzl and Petzl USA is inventing products and provide solutions that allow sports enthusiasts and professionals to access some of the most inaccessible places,

Petzl is a family business that, over the years, has become the largest European manufacturer of personal protective equipment for those who work and play in darkness or at height. All of Petzl’s products are invented and developed at our headquarters in the heart of the French Alps.

For 93 years we have been producing innovative products and we are looking forward to the next 90 years. Produced and designed in a small mountain town at the foot of the Dolomites, La Sportiva supports 140 families in a unique and enviable environment. Everyday the mountains surround the people who handcraft our products. Being mountain based and family run allows us to draw on eight decades of experience handed down through the generations. With this heritage we can focus on the future and meld new technologies, ideas and innovation with our rich knowledge of manufacturing to give you the most amazing products on the market. Products that let you go where you dream to go, do what you dream to do and live how you want to live.

Mountain Hardwear designs premium outdoor clothing and equipment for mountain sport athletes and enthusiasts.

Mountain Hardwear was founded in 1993 by a small band of outdoor industry iconoclasts. They saw the industry changing, compromising quality and dumbing down products to serve less technical users. Mountain Hardwear was founded to buck this trend in order to stay true to the needs of outdoor athletes.

The most trusted name in backcountry safety

Backcountry Access (BCA) strives to be the world’s leading manufacturer and distributor of snow safety equipment, including transceivers, airbags, shovels, probes, radios, and backcountry accessories. Our mission is to save lives through both innovation and education. By redefining avalanche rescue through disruptive new technologies and by supporting avalanche education initiatives worldwide.

K2 is the original American Ski and Snowboard Brand, founded in 1962 in Washington State. The brand that invented the fiberglass ski continued to innovate, pioneering torsion box construction in snowboards in 1987, and then creating the first women’s-specific products at the end of the 1990s. Today, the K2 brand is focused on the future, one that builds on the legacy of the last 60 years and supports K2’s position as the industry leader in ski and snowboard technology.

Join the Long Grip Revolution. Folkrm was founded by 2 friends and avid backcountry skiers in Hood River, Oregon. Our goal was to create a simple yet durable ski pole for those who find themselves uphill skiing as much as downhill skiing. After heavy testing throughout the Pacific Northwest, a few prototypes and some summer ski trips to the mountains, we arrived at a final design. Simple, efficient and durable, we believe we have come up with the most practical ski pole on the mountain.

Vertical World – America’s First Climbing Gym® provides a unique training facility and specialized programs for youth and adults within our communities. Vertical World opened the very first rock climbing gym in America in 1987 on Elliott Ave in Seattle. The gym was no more than rocks glued to painted plywood panels. Today, with more advanced facilities, Vertical World not only accommodates a variety of programs to learn how to rock climb, but also provides performance and educational programs in fitness and yoga, birthday parties, school or church groups, corporate events, private parties, and youth camps!