Zion - Angels LandingNational Park Hat
Details
- Embroidered panoramic design
- Adjustable snapback hat
- Structured mid-profile 5 panel
- Cotton, handwash
- Free shipping, free returns
- 100% of profits donated to National Parks
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Our Mission
I'm Ian - from Seattle, and at Rainier Hat Co. we're dedicated to giving back to the places that inspire us every day. From the glaciers of Mount Rainier to the grand prismatic springs of Yellowstone, our national parks are treasures that deserve our support.
That's why we've made a commitment that goes beyond the norm: donating all our profits to these natural sanctuaries. It's not just about creating high-quality (and awesome) hats inspired by the beauty of the outdoors, it's about contributing to the preservation of these areas for future generations to enjoy.
Design Inspiration
This design was inspired by an early morning at the summit of Angels Landing, where Navajo sandstone walls drop nearly 1,500 feet to the canyon floor below. Looking south down the length of Zion Canyon, sunrise pushes across the east facing walls and warms the red and cream colored rock on your right while the west facing walls hold on to shadow and cold air. The Virgin River runs far below, threading the canyon floor in wide bends and appearing almost silver at that elevation.
Ravens cross above the ridge, riding thermals that build off the warming sandstone as the sun climbs. To your left, a Rock Squirrel occupies a ledge near the summit, alert and motionless in the way these animals get when they're deciding whether to move or wait. The temperature difference between the sunlit and shadowed halves of the canyon registers on your skin before you consciously process it. The air up here carries the faint mineral smell of porous sandstone drying out after a cool night, along with the occasional drift of pinyon pine from the slopes below.
Design Process
Creating these National Park hats with their panoramic embroidery is a detailed process going beyond simply buying and reselling bulk designs.
The first step is a deep dive into what makes each park unique. From the Bison of Yellowstone and the Roseated Spoonbills of the Everglades to the panoramic views of Angels Landing in Zion, our goal is to highlight the beauty of each park. We try to find a specific viewpoint in the park to show off and what we need to do to capture the feeling of being there. While sometimes we ad-lib a bit of the design to include other elements to capture the feeling of the park as a whole, we try hard to find an actual place in the park you can visit even giving you an exact Google maps QR code with every hat.
Then we get to designing! Embroidery is naturally limited in colors and we use a 15 color (the most you'll find) edgeless embroidery process which takes upwards of 90 minutes and over 60,000 stitches per hat, but allows us to show off every detail from that epic mountain range to the colorful flowers in your favorite park.
Finally the design get digitized for embroidery, a sample is made for any final tweaks, and we go to production getting these fantastic hats on your heads.
And 100% of our profits are donated right back to our National Parks .
Visit the Inspiration
Angels Landing sits at 5,790 feet in the heart of Zion Canyon and is reached via the West Rim Trail from the Grotto trailhead. The round trip covers roughly 5.4 miles with about 1,488 feet of elevation gain.
A permit is required to hike the upper section of Angels Landing and is managed through a seasonal lottery on recreation.gov. The lottery runs a few months ahead of each season so planning early is important if this hike is on your list.
The trail follows the Virgin River briefly before climbing Walter's Wiggles, a series of 21 steep stone steps cut directly into the sandstone cliff. From there the final half mile to the summit traverses a narrow ridge using chains anchored into the rock for support.
Zion operates a free shuttle system from spring through fall and the Grotto stop drops you right at the trailhead. Starting early in the morning keeps you ahead of the afternoon heat and the bulk of daily visitor traffic on the chains section.
Conditions on the exposed upper ridge change fast. Afternoon thunderstorms are common in summer and the sandstone becomes extremely slick when wet so checking the forecast before you head out is worth the two minutes it takes.
Zion: Angels Landing
A chain assisted scramble above the Virgin River leads to one of Zion's most recognized viewpoints.
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