We’ve been advertising regularly in the Mountain Gazette since 2001. It’s a fun publication with drunken literary aspirations. And it’s free! We try to change up the ad for every issue. Here are the last two that we ran.

This shot is of Dave and Amanda on the ridge on Little Bear, a cool 14er just east of Alamosa. This was a really fun summit, but even the standard route shown here has a lot of dangerous loose rock. We were lucky to be the only party on the mountain that day.

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One of the many recurring problems with having a clothing factory is that we constantly have to make more product. Dang! For this next couple of weeks, we will be trying to finish up a big batch of Micro Grid tops before we move on to Wind Pro Sweats and High Loft Hoodies.

Javier sewing flaps into the zippers of his pile of 25 Zip Tops.

The master of Micro Grid.

Cindy edge stitches some more zip flaps for her pile.

Most of the photos that we use in our ads and website are taken by us here at Melanzana. Usually they are little bit amateurish. This past year an aspiring professional took some great photos for us, featuring Melanzana hoodies in some awesome central Colorado locations. Thanks Dag! http://www.daglarson.com/

The classic Independence Pass boulder problem “Jaws”.

Three from Hanging Lake, a super scenic spot above Glenwood Canyon.

This is one of our flatseam sewing machines, we call it “#9”.

We rescued this old beastie from a shut down sock factory in Wyoming. Note the large oil stain. Leaky! After switching up over $1200 in new parts, and fiddling around for days (months?), we eventually got #9 to make a nice seam on our Power Dry baselayer material. It’s been huming along for over a month now, this post better not jinx it.

Matt working today on some Women’s Tanks, just in time for winter…

Sorry ladies, he’s taken!