1 Flylow Gear.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: SMALL biz

Dan Abrams and Greg Steen started Flylow Gear in 2010 with a focus on outerwear made from Polartec fabrics along with leather gloves. New for 2013-14 are premium goatskin gloves as well as the new Lab Coat and Compound Pant made of NeoShell, Polartec's next-generation fabric.

"We're really the only American company using it now," Abrams says. "It's twice as breathable as any other fabric."

Abrams and Steen moved to the Lake Tahoe area of northern California in 2012 but kept the company in Denver, where four employees tend to marketing, distribution and put the...