Jim Hamel was a retired businessman and lifelong backpacker when he and wife Joy Hamel started Cascade Wild as a small family business in 2016. Cascade Wild was born in the rainy Northwest where anything you set on the ground in the backcountry is likely to get dirty. Our mission was simple: provide an economical, lightweight backpacking table to get your canister stove and personal cooking gear up out of the dirt, mud, and forest duff.