The Lost Zemitis Tapes

My good friend, Martin, filmed dozens of hours of Mountain Hardwear events...from sales meetings to parties...over the course of a decade.

We'd like to tell you more but then you'd have to be eliminated.

Here are two tales of schnoofa from Derek Mitchell. This footage is from the Mountain Hardwear F02 Sales Meeting held in Yosemite in early December 2001.

More from the Lost Zemitis Tapes. Here's snippets from his extensive footage of ths Summer 2001 Outdoor Retailer setup. We love, love, love the characters but the plot needs some work.

Part 2/2 of the Mountain Hardwear Crew at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2001. Mountain Hardwear showcases it's next line of tents, sleeping bags and pads at its Basecamp BBQ. 

Sky: The Mountain Hardwear Crew celebrate their 10 year anniversary the way they know best.... Pot Luck Style (meat courtesy of Gore)!

The Lost Zemitis Tapes roll on.

Jack and various other folks announce Mountain Hardwear's purchase by Columbia to the MHW staff.

First the Short Version.

[From the Lost Zemitis Tapes: Lauren Herrera shaped Martin's footage into this narrative.]

[Note on the part with Robert Link: before the Colombians would buy MHW, Mt. Link had to be sold.  They considered a guiding business risky and outside their business model. Robert gave Jack $1.00 to complete the purchase giving Robert complete ownership of Mt. Link. After the sale of Mt. Link was complete, we started signing the docs to sell MHW. I think it all happened on the same day. - Martin ]

Transcript:

Deal is agreed on.

Martin Zemitis: I always get yelled at for this. 

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