In 1952, Dick Kelty, a
carpenter, builder, and avid outdoorsman, started making
backpacks for his friends in the Sierra Club for 24
bucks a pop. His friends were grateful. These 24-dollar
packs revolutionized backpacking, implementing for the
first time Kelty's ideas of a hipbelt and lighter
aluminum frames. Soon, Kelty and his friends were
exploring the Sierra Nevadas with heavy loads, no
shoulder pain, going farther, longer, and happier into
the wilderness than ever before. Five years later, Dick
Kelty quit his carpentry business to start an outdoor
gear company. Staked out in an old garage, he welded
aluminum tubes into frames while his wife, Nena, cut,
sewed, and fitted the pack bags. Today, Kelty gear
promises the same dedication to innovation and getting
outdoors that Dick Kelty had forty-eight years ago.
Kelty started as a company making it easier for friends
to enjoy the wilderness, and that's what Kelty still
does. Kelty just has a few more friends.
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You
guys are so awesome...please forward this to your boss!
EVERY single person I talked to you was superb...even
though my shoes didn't work out, you were so darn nice
about it all...that I will pass on your name and
definitely try again. I'm a shoe-a-holic...so it
shouldn't be difficult. I'm so glad that CUSTOMER
SERVICE is still a very real commodity that some
businesses chose to use in today's fast, on-line society
