Footsloggers brings Easton Mountain Products to the High Country

Tents and trekking poles from Easton Mountain Products have arrived at Footsloggers!  The Kilo tent is revolutionizing the ultralight backpacking market, and we can’t wait to get our hands on it.  In the meantime, you can learn a bit about Easton’s history and mission below.  We are stocking the Kilo and Hat-trick tents, as well as multiple trekking pole models.  Here’s a sneak peak at the Kilo:

Easton Mountain Products Company Profile:

Located in Salt Lake City Utah since 1979

In 1922, Doug Easton founded the Easton company making wood arrows and bows.  Over time he brought innovation to the archery industry by revolutionizing arrow manufacturing with lightweight, precision aluminum shafts.  This began a tradition of improving athletic performance through technological innovation that’s continued over 88 years. This ethic has been passed down from Doug through his son Jim Easton to the current company president, Greg Easton.

The drive to develop quality products that improve the outdoor and sports experience has lead Easton to branch out into other sports including baseball, hockey, cycling, and performance mountain products.  Easton’s focus in these markets has spawned game-changing innovations that encourage athletes to go farther in their sport.

The Easton family sold the team sports division to Bell Riddell in 2008.  The mountain products and archery divisions continue to be wholly owned by the Easton family.  The majority of manufacturing and assembly for these two divisions continues at the Salt Lake City, Utah facility.

For nearly 30 years, Easton has been an OEM supplier of carbon fiber and aluminum tent poles and snowshoe frames for the most renowned brands in the outdoor market. Easton’s proprietary precision-manufacturing techniques have allowed the development of lightweight, high-strength aluminum pole systems and has given birth to today’s lightweight tents.  These same processes, used in aerospace alloy snowshoes, eliminate tensile loss normally found in most frames and provide full strength yields after shaping.

The 2008 introduction of Easton-branded product lines came from a desire to make better end-products and not just better components. Branded products offer the opportunity to show the marketplace Easton proprietary advancements as Easton-engineered innovations. Current Easton products lines include Trekking Poles, Snowshoes and Lightweight Tents.