Ryan and Stephanie Jordan
Owners, Backpacking Light
The Basics
Company Name: Backpacking Light
Location: Laramie, WY
Founded: 2000
Products: Outdoor Media and Education
Social: Instagram
Claim to Fame: We helped make the digital scale your accountability partner.
The Culture
The best thing about working at Backpacking Light is:
We hike during work hours, and we work while hiking.
When we’re not working, we’re:
Coffee, camping, math.
What we’re reading:
Confluence by Karen McCall, Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris.
What we’re listening to:
Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors, Unlocking Us (podcast).
IF They made a movie about our workplace, it would be called:
The Gear List Conspiracy.
Inclusion in the outdoors matters because:
If any part of humanity can't enjoy wild places, or sharing about their experiences in wild places, with the equality, representation, and freedom that the rest of us have, then our humanity's collective intimacy with nature is broken.
Five years down the line, it’s our hope that:
Carrying a light pack, accessing wild places, and sharing stories about wilderness travel is equally accessible to everyone in the outdoors community.