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At Alpine Innovations we are committed to providing you with the highest quality products.

We have the resources to meet all of your needs, no matter how large. We stand behind our products 100%. Let us know how we can help your business succeed.

Our company is always looking for solutions to common problems. Please feel free to offer advise or make recommendations; we believe the best ideas are often yet to be discovered.

We currently offer products for the following markets:

Photography
Fishing
Golf
Outdoor
Eyewear
Medical

Custom Ordering: To place a custom order or request product information, please call us at 1-866-489-6788. If you prefer to contact us in another manner, view our Contact page.

If you would like to become a dealer, please contact us at service@alpineproducts.com.

The story of Spudz

While growing up on a small 5-acre farm in Utah, Darren Jones was a typical farm boy with big dreams of having a successful business someday. What he lacked in experience and business savvy, he made up for through his perseverance and strong determination.

In order to keep Darren busy and out of trouble, his parents gave him after-school chores to tend to. While the chores kept him occupied, Darren still found it difficult to conform and think inside the box. In fact, he never knew the proverbial box existed. If so, he would have tried to make a better box. This is how he saw life in general.

There are many instances of innovative thinking that led Darren to where he is now. For example, at the age of 14 he wanted to have his own telephone in his bedroom. His parents wouldnt allow it due to the cost and the fact that they felt he needed to be at least 16 years of age before he had a phone of his own. This didnt stop Darren. By focusing on the cost of adding a phone as the issue and not his age, Darren found his opportunity for innovation.

After locating 30 feet of old speaker wire, Darren stealthily ran the telephone wire around the outside of this house, between bushes and through his window. He then found the 2 leads necessary to connect dial tone where the bell company provided service to his house.

Once Darren had connected the telephone cable to his stereo, he then had a way to play background music while he talked on the phone. He also found a way to record conversations that could later be used to blackmail his older brother. It was several months before his Mom found out and this was only because she was weeding flowers outside his window that spring and happened to notice a wire leading into his bedroom window. This was just the beginning of Darrens desires to find a better way of doing things.

After high school, Darren attended a community college and worked as a telephone technician for 11 years. Throughout this time, he had several ideas that never got off the ground, but he still continued trying to come up with solutions to problems that no one had thought of yet.

Finally at the age of 26, Darren came up with his first promising idea. While fly fishing on the Provo River, he imagined a product that would protect your fingers and make the fly line last longer. Stripee was the name for his invention due to the fact that you easily strip your line across the cleaning pads.

After attending his first trade show in Salt Lake City, Darren met several people who inspired him to continue improving his product. One such person was a man named Bruce Hollowich, who took an interest in Darren and introduced him to several leaders in the fly-fishing industry.

Soon after this, 9/11 occurred and the fly-fishing market started to feel the effects of the economic down turn. In order to make enough money to support his family, Darren realized he needed a broader line of products and continued to work with telephones and to grow his small business, which he named Alpine Innovations LLC.

Darren chose the name Alpine Innovations due to its location near the foothills of the beautiful Wasatch Mountains in Utah.

Two years later, while attending a seminar for telephone systems, Darren had another enlightening idea. After eating his lunch, he noticed the accumulation of crumbs from his sandwich that had settled on the inside of his sunglasses.

After purchasing a micro-fiber cloth from a Sunglass store in the lobby, he went back into the seminar and started to think of better ways to keep his lens cloth handy. About an hour into the seminar, Darren found his solution. He wanted to make a little pouch with a lens cloth attached inside so that the cloth would not fall out. Later that day, he persuaded his wife to help him sew a proto-type of his idea. After several revisions and improvements to the design, Darren had created a product that had greater potential than he realized. The name Spudz was cleverly chosen because the product resembles a small potato hanging from a cord.

Alpine Innovations provides private label orders for businesses such as: Disney, Sony, Casio, Nikon, Leica, JVC, Cisco, Fuji, Canon, Cabelas, Bass Pro, Sportsmans Warehouse, Big 5, Amazon, Pearle Vision, Adobe and many others.

Darrens current projects include manufacturing patented accessories for pharmaceutical companies and pursuing international sales in Europe and Asia. He is also developing new products, making improvements to his already existing product lines and entering international markets by utilizing international patent laws.