Lloyd Alva Anderson (August 4, 1902 – September 13, 2000) was an American business executive who co-founded the retail and outdoor recreation services corporation

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in 1938 with his wife Mary Anderson. As avid mountaineers they saw a need for quality gear so created a consumer cooperative company that is one of the largest recreational equipment retailers. They were inducted into the Cooperative Business Association's Hall of Fame in 1993.

Family life

Anderson was born to John Anderson and Adda Wilson Bush Anderson in

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. He studied at

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, earning a BS in electrical engineering and worked for Seattle's transit utility. He died in 2000.Obituary,

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Publications

*Lloyd Anderson's Climbing Notebook (1980) Copyright Registration Number/Date: TXu000053476 / 1980-10-03 *The History of Recreational Equipment, Inc.--a Cooperative (1980) Copyright Registration Number/Date: TXu000043397 / 1980-05-05

First ascents

Anderson's

first ascents In mountaineering, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books) is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain or the first to follow a particular climbing route. First mountain ascents are notable because they e ...

include

Mount Triumph Mount Triumph is a summit in the North Cascades range of Washington state. Located approximately west-northwest of the town of Newhalem, it was named by Lage Wernstedt, a surveyor with the U.S. Forest Service. A significant peak in North Cas ...

(1938),

Sinister Peak Sinister Peak () is in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Wenatchee National Forests in the U.S. state of Washington. It is situated in Glacier Peak Wilderness and the North Cascades. Not quite east of Dome Peak, Sinister Peak is along a high ridge co ...

(1939),

Forbidden Peak Forbidden Peak is an glacial horn located in North Cascades National Park, in Skagit County of Washington state. It is part of the North Cascades and is located near Cascade Pass. Forbidden Peak features a rock climbing route named '' West Ridg ...

(1940),

Tenpeak Mountain Tenpeak Mountain is an mountain summit located in the Glacier Peak Wilderness of the North Cascades in Washington state. Tenpeak is situated on the crest of the Cascade Range, on the shared border of Snohomish County and Chelan County, also st ...

(1940),

Klawatti Peak Klawatti Peak () is located in North Cascades National Park in the U.S. state of Washington. Klawatti Peak is a nunatak, a peak surrounded by glaciers. These are Klawatti Glacier to the east, McAllister Glacier to the northwest and Inspirati ...

(1940), and

Dorado Needle Dorado Needle is an mountain summit located in North Cascades National Park in Skagit County of Washington state. The peak lies 0.73 miles north of Eldorado Peak and southeast of Perdition Peak. It can be seen from the North Cascades Hig ...

(1940).Beckey, Fred W. Cascade Alpine Guide, Climbing and High Routes. Seattle, WA: Mountaineers Books, 2008.

References

External links

Lloyd Anderson papers, (1929-1979
at University of Washington Libraries
The Mountaineer, 1938The Mountaineer, 1940The Mountaineer, 1941The Mountaineer, 1947REI.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Lloyd 1902 births 2000 deaths American mountain climbers University of Washington alumni