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"She has an ability to quickly grasp the
current state of an organization and
figure out what it needs."
(mom, dad, Sally, and her three brothers) would
head to the family farm. When she was five, her
parents took the brood on their first family
overnight-a 10-mile (one way) hike in the
Smoky Mountains. A troop of Boy Scouts
reached their shelter before them, so the
family had to sleep on the floor. "Little bear
cubs walked over us," says McCoy.
At 13, she took a National Outdoor
Leadership School (NOLS) trip in the Wind
Rivers. She weighed 100 pounds, carried
a 70-pound pack, and came home weighing 90. Three years later, she did another
NOLS trip, and had to assist in a rescue of
one of the instructors. Always she wore wool
clothes from Goodwill and slept in bags from
the Army Surplus store. She didn't necessarily want to, but good options were scarce in
women's performance gear and clothing.
She's said in the past that female backpackers had to carry more weight and pay
more money because they were forced to buy
men's sleeping bags. In the 1970s, the average American woman was 5'4", and made 70
cents on the dollar compared to men. Most
also have a lower metabolic rate than men.
Good specialty stores would sell a woman a
bag rated to 10 degrees if she wanted to be
warm at 20 degrees, whereas a man could
buy a 20-degree bag. So women ended up
paying more, carrying more weight and having to heat more space.
For years, McCoy simply dealt with those inequities. In 1978, she enrolled at Dartmouth,
studying history. Her choice would later prove
prescient. "I studied populism-pertinent
now," she says. But after college-in the recession-wracked early '80s-she couldn't find
employment.
Naturally, she went traveling. Around the
world, including to China. She says it didn't
take a genius to see the place was ripe for capitalism. "China was just opening up. The men
wore DayGlo tanks," she says. "You could see
China was industrious." It made an impression. She went home needing work. And in
San Francisco, she started applying to every
outdoor shop and label in town.
The North Face finally hired her to work a
"super low-level office job on the retail side,"
she says. Did she like it? Sort of. Was her next
role, sales and marketing manager, better?
Yes. But the best thing that would happen
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Outdoor Retailer - July 2017
OUTDOOR RETAILER - JULY 2017
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
FIRST WORDS
THE TRIBE
GREG THOMSEN
YVON CHOUINARD AND GERRY LOPEZ
STEVE BARKER
THE SCENE
JEFF LOWE
PETER AND PATTY DUKE
BEAVER THEODOSAKIS
CARSON STANWOOD
CHAD GALLWITZ
JOHN MEAD
THE TORNADO
THE SCENE
SALLY MCCOY
JOHN STERLING
CASEY SHEAHAN
THE SCENE
MUSIC AND MEMORIES
PETER METCALF
SALLY JEWELL
CONRAD ANKER
JEN TAYLOR
DAN NORDSTROM
JEREMY COLLINS
JOANNA HOSHIMOTO
THE FUTURE
THE BACKSTORY
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - Cover2
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CONTENTS
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CONTRIBUTORS
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - FIRST WORDS
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE TRIBE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - GREG THOMSEN
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - YVON CHOUINARD AND GERRY LOPEZ
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - STEVE BARKER
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE SCENE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JEFF LOWE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - PETER AND PATTY DUKE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - BEAVER THEODOSAKIS
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CARSON STANWOOD
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CHAD GALLWITZ
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JOHN MEAD
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - 39
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE TORNADO
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - 42
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE SCENE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - SALLY MCCOY
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JOHN STERLING
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CASEY SHEAHAN
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE SCENE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - 58
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - 59
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - MUSIC AND MEMORIES
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - PETER METCALF
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - SALLY JEWELL
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - CONRAD ANKER
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JEN TAYLOR
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - DAN NORDSTROM
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JEREMY COLLINS
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - JOANNA HOSHIMOTO
Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE FUTURE
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Outdoor Retailer - July 2017 - THE BACKSTORY
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