AMBLER MOUNTAIN WORKS - FLEECE HAT SERIES

Something soft, something colorful, something beautifully crafted…

Fleece five panel brim hats, embossed with Watercolorwoods artwork. Inspired by wild spaces, ethically made with recycled materials by Ambler Mountain Works, a small company based in Nelson, British Columbia.

Caribou range across the tundra, alpine, and forested zones throughout the entire northern hemisphere. These sleepy-seeming, cloven-hooved critters all grow antlers - males and females alike - endure the harshest climates, and have provided companionship and subsistence to arctic and subarctic cultures for millennia…they may in fact have brought the first people across the Bering Land Bridge to what is modern-day Alaska. Moonrise Caribou is a work in tribute to these resilient, beautiful creatures that have struggled with population dynamics as the climate of the far north has destabilized due to rapid climate change in the last century.

Mount Blackburn is the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains. It looms dramatically at 16,390 feet, with great local relief and independence from its surroundings. In the long Alaskan winters, its face is often lit by blue and lavender hues - magic light that emphasizes that though the days are short, they are full of beauty and awe.