We're Chandler and Joe. We started Wander Lost a few years ago located in Lehi, Utah, for the simplest reason there is: we wanted to spend more time outside with the people we love, and we wanted the gear we used out there to be worth something.
 

It started with a stick. A few summers ago, on a camping trip somewhere in the Utah backcountry, we found ourselves doing what every camper has done a thousand times — poking at a fire with a half-burned branch, kicking logs into place with our boots, and singeing the hair off our arms trying to grab a flaming log with welding gloves. We laughed about it that night. But the next morning, somebody asked the question: 'Why isn't there a tool for this that actually works?'

We looked. We tried the cheap ones from Amazon — they bent on the first use. We tried the expensive ones — they were heavy, rigid, and impossible to pack. We tried the ones from the home goods store — they were built for indoor fireplaces and useless outdoors. Every single one on the market was either flimsy junk or built for someone else's problem.

So we built our own.