Dana Gleason

The Anchor Point Podcast

Today on the show - We get a little history lesson and some behind the scenes storytelling from the man, the myth, the legend, Dana Gleason himself!

Dana Gleason has been around the outdoor industry since the late 70's. Dana's first company, Kletterwerks, was just the start of a lineage of companies that would set the standard in the outdoors industry... After Kletterwerks, he then went on to create Dana Design, an independent pack company based in Bozeman, MT.

Eventually, Dana made the decision to sell Dana Design in 1995... However, he was brought out of retirement after his daughter asked him to design a custom "hip sack" for her - This ultimately made him decide to form what we now know as Mystery Ranch!

Moral of the story: Follow your passion; and if at first you don't succeed, try again until you're successful!

These folks at Mystery Ranch have been at the forefront of trying to make things better for the boots on the ground in the realm of wildland fire... Good thing for us, is that they are trying to tell the stories of wildland firefighters across the nation - and supporting us with awesome programs like The Backbone Series...

To find out more about the Backbone series and Backbone Scholarship, check out this link:

https://www.mysteryranch.com/backbone-series

You know the drill...

Have fun, stay safe, and stay savage!

Enjoy...

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Updates!

We have received some unfortunate news regarding some injuries and complete losses of property with some of our folks in the field. Please check out our new landing page to help these firefighters get back on their feet again:

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The new website is live! Be sure to check our the "Resources" page for some folks in the industry that are doing incredible things for us!

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Not a sponsor of The Anchor Point Podcast, but a great organization:

The Wildland Firefighter Foundation
And, as always, please consider supporting this great nonprofit organization - The Wildland Firefighter Foundation!
https://wffoundation.org