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Early Winters, Ltd. of Seattle, Washington, USA was the first company to create and sell a consumer product made of Gore-Tex laminates made by W.L. Gore & Associates in Elkton, Maryland. The product was a streamlined, two-person tent called The Light Dimension. This first Gore-Tex product debuted in 1976. The Gore salesman who introduced Early Winters to the fabric product (which at that time was still without a name) was Joe Tanner, whose role is now largely forgotten even at W.L. Gore & Associates. Tanner had made the rounds and had been turned down by companies such as REI, Eddie Bauer, and The North Face.