On a recent trip to Seattle, I stopped by C.C. Filson Co.’s flagship store (1555 4th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98134) and snapped some photos. In addition to having perhaps the most badass corporate motto ever — “Might as well have the best” — Filson makes some of the highest-quality, handsomest-looking outdoor clothing and gear in the world. Some of it is still even made in the USA.
I especially love their bags, but my favorite thing they make might be the Mackinaw Cruiser (pictured below), an item that’s gotten a few high-profile endorsements recently.
More photos after the jump.
Lovely material, that Filson wool. The essential woodsy ‘right stuff’, you would almost imagine that a pocket anthology of Robert Service poems comes as standard equipment in its pockets. I’ve had a Mackinaw Cruiser for decades and it’s still my choice of outer hidewear in Sierra and BC winter seasons; when the wind blows briskly over the Chillcoot, me for Filson, mate!
Aloha, Kalikiano