In this image Lloyd Anderson rests after climbing Howser Spire in the Purcell range in British Columbia. During the 1930s and 1940s, Anderson logged many first ascents in the Cascades in Washington and the Bugaboos in Canada. In his lifetime, he scaled 400 peaks, subsequently writing about those experiences in his "Climbing Notebook," published in 1980.

Avid outdoorspeople Lloyd Alva Anderson (1902-2000) and his wife Mary Gaiser Anderson (1910-2017) learned climbing techniques through a Mountaineers class taught by Wolf Bauer (1912-2016). The inability to find high-quality, inexpensive climbing gear led them and 21 mountaineering friends to found the retail cooperative Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) in 1938, enabling them to buy gear in bulk from Europe and other places. Still based in Seattle, REI currently operates 149 retail stores in 36 states and employs over 11,000 people.

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