Black Diamond Equipment
Black Diamond Equipment’s heritage goes back to 1957, when we started selling hand forged climbing gear from the trunk of a car in the Valley. Six decades later, the Black Diamond brand is a global Outdoor Industry leader—known for engineering and manufacturing the world's best climbing, skiing and trekking equipment. With our global sales, marketing and manufacturing headquarters located at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah, we are always looking for highly talented and self-motivated people that share our love for chasing adventurous outdoor pursuits, as well as building the absolute best gear to get you there. Learn more about Black Diamond Equipment work opportunities here: https://blackdiamondequipment.com/en_US/careers.htmlwww.blackdiamondequipment.com
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Oct 30, 2026
Patrick TheanHOST
So you're going to learn a lot about how to do that.
Patrick TheanHOST
And his career spans Nike, the North Face, Black Diamond, Sims Fishing.
Patrick TheanHOST
And in fact, today, Dave is back at Sims Fishing as the president.
Patrick TheanHOST
And in addition to Sims Fishing, he runs multiple brands.
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Dave MellonGUEST
And I think that's that, right or wrong, that's always been a bit of a selective criteria relative to the people that you hire within these businesses and brands.
Dave MellonGUEST
Again, it's not just me.
Dave MellonGUEST
If you have a lot of people with a lot of different perspective, but all of them share a passion for angling, for example, at Sims Fishing or at Black Diamond, it was those climbers and backcountry skiers.
Dave MellonGUEST
And they had the component of their professional skill set.
Casey McIntoshHOST
And the death certificate, issued without a body, lists the cause as accidental fall.
Julie HenningsenHOST
That crampon went to a metallurgist at Black Diamond Equipment for analysis.
Julie HenningsenHOST
It had two spikes on the front, and one of them had snapped off.
Julie HenningsenHOST
And the question in front of that laboratory was really the whole question of the accident.
Steve HouseHOST
at the time.
Steve HouseHOST
And we had been taking inspiration from things like the race across America on bikes, like the ultras had become a thing like there, you know, the Wasatch 100, you know, you know, I remember when I used to be sponsored by Black Diamond in the mid nineties and one of the product developers, Andrew McLean ran the Wasatch 100.
Steve HouseHOST
And I was like, what is that? What did you do? Like, I'd never heard of it.
Steve HouseHOST
And then we started like, oh, that sounds kind of like what we're doing, but just different.