I switched from DuckDuckGo to Qwant a week ago and so far I’m happy with it. I’m in the US and it does a great job returning search results that are relevant to me here, even though it’s intended for people in Europe.
I also switched from Gmail to Posteo, ChatGPT to Le Chat and Firefox to Waterfox.
I plan to replace Google Drive with Nextcloud, sometime in the next few months when I have the time to set it up.
Google Maps will be the hardest to replace. I’ve tried 8 or so competitors and they all pale in comparison.
Agree, I’m in Colorado and Mammut is well loved here (I own a Mammut jacket myself). Haglöfs makes top-notch backpacks and I wore exclusively Salomon shoes for over a decade before switching to zero-drop.
Most of these European brands are pretty easily found here if you know where to look. As for the American brands, Columbia is utter trash and Marmot isn’t much better.