Makers

6 makers. Some are companies with product lines; two are one person building to order.

Corporate history is recorded the way the rest of this dataset is recorded: what a source says, attributed, with the date. Where sources are silent — and on the questions people most want answered, they often are — the silence is written down as a gap rather than filled with a plausible sentence.

• Mystery Ranch — founded 2000, Bozeman, Montana. Acquired by YETI Holdings, Inc., 2024-02-02. 2 packs tracked, 3 known gaps.

• EVERGOODS — founded 2016, Bozeman, Montana. 8 packs tracked, 3 known gaps.

• GORUCK — founded 2008. 4 packs tracked, 2 known gaps.

• Alpha One Niner. 2 packs tracked, 3 known gaps.

• Filip Raboch. 4 packs tracked, 2 known gaps.

• Sample, Beaverton, Oregon. 1 pack tracked, 2 known gaps.

Parent companies

Registered so an acquisition resolves to an entity rather than a bare string.

• YETI Holdings, Inc. — Owner of Mystery Ranch since 2024-02-02. Registered here so the acquisition resolves to an entity rather than a bare string.

A note on eras

Two entries here carry corrections we made to our own founding brief, and we have left the corrections visible rather than quietly fixing them:

• The brief called the maker Filip Robach. No such designer exists. His name is Filip Raboch, as his own store spells it.
• The brief described SAMPLE and ARTICLE as two product lines. Sample is the brand; Article is how Sample numbers its models. Encoding them as siblings would have misrepresented a maker to readers who know better.

Neither correction is hidden. Each maker’s entry states what the error was and links the sources that settle it — Raboch’s own store for his name, and Carryology’s interview with Dan Matsuda for the Article numbering. A dataset that quietly fixes its own errors is not a source; it is a claim.