Why we build this way.
Because nature is medicine.
Because luxury is spaciousness.
It started as a conviction, not a complaint: there should be beautiful tents in the world.
I was a product development engineer at PopSockets. So I did what engineers do, and went looking at what already existed.
Canvas takes four people. Nylon lasts three trips.
"Luxury" inflatables were PVC in a nicer box.
The tent did not need a better version. It needed a makeover, down to the frame. That lit me up in a way a day job could not hold, so I quit and did this full time.
So I sketched.
One person. Ten minutes. A hand pump.
Zero PVC. Nearly 300 bottles in every tent.
I believe the most audacious thing a woman can be is relaxed.
A hundred prototypes.
A thousand nights in the field.
One hailstorm in Utah I still think about.
Everything else on this site is downstream of that.