The Last Best Fifty Miles
Three days on the longest undammed river in the Lower 48, with the crew fighting to keep it that way.
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Fall ’26 · The Headwaters Collection
Go where the water starts.
Shells, fleece, and packs built in fewer, better versions — warrantied for life, mended for free, and taxed two cents on the dollar by the rivers that raised us.
Mara Osei above the Gallatin headwall, first light. Photo: Wes Delgado
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Every piece above is sewn fair-trade, cut from recycled or deadstock cloth, and covered by the Mend Bench for life. Read how the Headwater Shell gets tested →
The Film
Forty Miles of Cold Water
A season with the ranchers, guides, and biologists holding the Madison together — and what it actually costs to keep a river cold.
Filmed over two Octobers on the Madison and the Gallatin. Directed by June Akiyama.
Repairs · Trade-in
The Mend Bench
A lifetime warranty isn’t fine print. It’s a workbench at the back of the store, and a person named Ruthie who has opinions about your zipper.
Blown seam, burned cuff, tooth marks from a dog with taste — bring it in or mail it back. We fix what we made for free, forever, and we’ll patch most anything else for the cost of thread. Outgrown it instead? Trade it in: we recondition it, resell it at our used rack, and take 20% off your next piece.
4,183
Repairs since 2019
9 days
Average turnaround
$0
For the life of the garment
Ruthie Calder at the bench, repair no. 4,102. Photo: Tomás Rivera
From the Field
All stories →Photo: Wes Delgado
Dispatch
Photo: June Akiyama
Field Notes
What a Jacket Owes You
Our head mender on why a blown zipper is a promise, not a defect — and how to make one shell outlast four trucks.
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Grantee
Counting Cutthroat on the Big Hole
Where last year’s 2% went: fish counts, bank willows, and a ranch family betting the whole outfit on cold water.
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Our commitments
Five things we will do as long as the doors are open.
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We make fewer things, and build each one to be handed down. Our materials
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Every seam we sew, we mend for free — for the life of the garment. The Mend Bench
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Two cents of every dollar goes to the groups keeping our watersheds cold and clean. Where the 2% goes
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We publish every mill, every dye house, and every mistake in a yearly field report. The field report
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Public land made this company, and we show up for it — testimony, trail days, checkbook. Take action