sierra madre
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Greetings my fellow Overlanders!
I'm from Vicksburg, MS and I have been overlanding and hammock camping for about 5 years now and I love it! I'm a Research Mechanical Engineer and Gear Junkie.
My first real hammock adventure was in 2009, I went to Honduras for 7 days and chose to sleep in my (I'll leave this hammock giant unnamed) the whole time I was there. I really appreciated the simplicity of it, however, it just wasn't comfortable enough yet.
While I was there I worked with a doctor treating patients with various illnesses, 80% of them were related to water borne diseases/sickness.
These two moments were life changing events for me, my "normal" was gone. I am also the type of person that likes to take action, rather than talk about things. So through the grace of Christ I formed a company around those two life changing events, a company that will strive to make high quality innovative outdoor gear AND use a portion of each products profit to drill clean water wells in the remote regions of this earth for people that do not have access to clean drinking water.
I came home from that trip and bought a sewing machine and got to work creating a really comfortable/useful hammock. It took a while but after about 30 prototypes I finally came to what is now called the Pares.
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/shop/pares/
I founded the company Sierra Madre Research in 2010 and boy has it been a crazy ride! In 2011 I founded our very own manufacturing company in Managua, Nicaragua, SMr ILLUMINATE. We teamed up with a sewing ministry in Managua that was teaching men and women how to sew (i.e. how to fish), and through the grace of God were able to start the company SMr ILLUMINATE to hire some of the students on full time after they graduated from the professional stitching class. Through much toil and hard work we launched our first 4 products this past November, the Pares, Solo, EZSlings, and Slings.
This all brings me to where we are today, we have launched a new product on Kickstarter and it's called the Nube`! The patent pending Nube` is engineered to protect you AND your gear from rain, wind, and insects. We are really excited about it and I hope you will check it out!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1313173787/nube-the-perfected-hammock-shelter-by-sierra-madre?ref=home_location
I'd love to hear any feed back you may have on it, as we are in the business of producing FUNCTIONAL products and you guys and galls obviously know about functionality!! It's no "ultralight" system (those will come later) but it is spacious and protects you and your gear like a fortress. A group of us have been testing 10 of them all over the world since 2010.
Anyways thats enough about me, here is a link to SMr's "About Us" if you want to check us out.
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/about-smr/
Thanks!
Richard Rhett
Founder of Sierra Madre Research
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/
richard@sierramadreresearch.com
Phone # 9084446767
I'm from Vicksburg, MS and I have been overlanding and hammock camping for about 5 years now and I love it! I'm a Research Mechanical Engineer and Gear Junkie.
My first real hammock adventure was in 2009, I went to Honduras for 7 days and chose to sleep in my (I'll leave this hammock giant unnamed) the whole time I was there. I really appreciated the simplicity of it, however, it just wasn't comfortable enough yet.
While I was there I worked with a doctor treating patients with various illnesses, 80% of them were related to water borne diseases/sickness.
These two moments were life changing events for me, my "normal" was gone. I am also the type of person that likes to take action, rather than talk about things. So through the grace of Christ I formed a company around those two life changing events, a company that will strive to make high quality innovative outdoor gear AND use a portion of each products profit to drill clean water wells in the remote regions of this earth for people that do not have access to clean drinking water.
I came home from that trip and bought a sewing machine and got to work creating a really comfortable/useful hammock. It took a while but after about 30 prototypes I finally came to what is now called the Pares.
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/shop/pares/
I founded the company Sierra Madre Research in 2010 and boy has it been a crazy ride! In 2011 I founded our very own manufacturing company in Managua, Nicaragua, SMr ILLUMINATE. We teamed up with a sewing ministry in Managua that was teaching men and women how to sew (i.e. how to fish), and through the grace of God were able to start the company SMr ILLUMINATE to hire some of the students on full time after they graduated from the professional stitching class. Through much toil and hard work we launched our first 4 products this past November, the Pares, Solo, EZSlings, and Slings.
This all brings me to where we are today, we have launched a new product on Kickstarter and it's called the Nube`! The patent pending Nube` is engineered to protect you AND your gear from rain, wind, and insects. We are really excited about it and I hope you will check it out!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1313173787/nube-the-perfected-hammock-shelter-by-sierra-madre?ref=home_location
I'd love to hear any feed back you may have on it, as we are in the business of producing FUNCTIONAL products and you guys and galls obviously know about functionality!! It's no "ultralight" system (those will come later) but it is spacious and protects you and your gear like a fortress. A group of us have been testing 10 of them all over the world since 2010.
Anyways thats enough about me, here is a link to SMr's "About Us" if you want to check us out.
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/about-smr/
Thanks!
Richard Rhett
Founder of Sierra Madre Research
http://www.sierramadreresearch.com/
richard@sierramadreresearch.com
Phone # 9084446767
