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Calling Card: Glue-free waterproof textiles

In 2010, Timm Smith, a former product developer for Gore-Tex; Dan English, an ex-Microsoft techie; and his son, Dustin English, an Alaska mountain guide, walked into a bar—er, Denali National Park & Preserve. The trio quickly realized their cold-weather apparel was flimsy—and not even very warm—and they

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