In the summer of 1995, I wore the same pair of shorts every single day. That summer, and those shorts, felt like something straight out of The Goonies. I was 15, wild at heart, spending my days in the mountains, lakes, and rivers of Maine. We lived off brook trout and flavor ice, rinsed off in the lake, waged epic one-pump BB gun wars, and built forts deep in the woods.
Unfortunately, that same summer, a friend left the sterno burning one morning, and our fort—and a good chunk of the forest—went up in flames. For 30 years, I searched for a pair of shorts that could match the durability and feel of those originals. I never found them—so I made them. Right here in America. The fabric we invented is called ORIGIN NYLOC®.
Back then, my ragtag crew didn’t need to be told to Get The F*** Outside. That was just life—through brutally cold winters and scorching hot summers.
So when we set out to build the GTFO Collection, we handed it to a bunch of Gen X’ers and told them to do what they do best. They jumped out of airplanes, hiked the Appalachian Trail, hunted in the Maine mountains, and traveled, wandering the cobble stone streets of Europe.
We made a few tweaks, refined the fit, and built the perfect pant—one that performs day after day after day. GO LIVE THAT GENX LIFE.
