Our story
Built by a hunter,
for the ones still planning.
Basecamp didn't start in a boardroom. It started with forty browser tabs, a legal pad, and a dream hunt that deserved better than a spreadsheet.
The long walk in
How Basecamp got here.
Chapter one
A career built on planning.
For a decade I've worked as a Senior Project Manager in the renewable and HV construction industry. My job is to take chaos and turn it into a schedule. Logistics, budgets, risk registers, and coordination between people who've never met. It taught me one thing above all: a good plan is the difference between a project that finishes and one that quietly falls apart.
Chapter two
A passion that started long before the job.
Home is Oklahoma, but my heart has always been somewhere higher. Hunting has been part of my life since I was old enough to sit still in a treestand. Over the years the dreams got bigger — western elk, mountain goat, a tahr in New Zealand's Southern Alps. Adventures that take years of preparation and cost more than most people spend on a truck. And every time I tried to plan one, the same thing happened.
Chapter three
Forty browser tabs and a legal pad.
State regulation PDFs. Draw odds spreadsheets. Outfitter emails from six time zones. Facebook groups where every second post contradicts the last. YouTube videos I bookmarked and never found again. Weather archives, gear reviews, blister-prevention threads. I'd start on Sunday and by Wednesday I still didn't know what boots to buy. I kept thinking: someone must have built the tool for this. No one had.
Chapter four
So I started building it.
Basecamp is the tool I wished existed while planning my own hunts. One place to compare hunts and understand what they truly cost. A training plan built around the terrain you'll actually face. A gear list you can trust. A timeline that keeps you honest twelve months out and again the night before you fly. Nothing fancy. Just the plan, done right, so you can spend your weekends outside instead of in a spreadsheet.
Philosophy
A few things I believe
about hunting well.
Planning should create confidence.
Not more windows to leave open. The whole point of a plan is to walk into camp knowing you didn't miss the thing that would've cost you the hunt.
Preparation should reduce stress.
Twelve months out feels like forever, until it doesn't. Basecamp is designed to keep you a step ahead so the last week before you leave feels calm instead of frantic.
Technology should get out of the way.
Good tools disappear. If Basecamp ever feels like homework, we've done something wrong. Every feature has to earn its place on the page.
Founder
Jordan Fredrickson
Meet the maker
Jordan Fredrickson
Founder & Creator of Basecamp
I live in Oklahoma with my family and spend my days managing large infrastructure projects — the kind of work where a missed detail costs months. That same discipline is what I bring to every hunt. Basecamp is built from real trips, real gear failures, real training seasons, and a deep respect for the animals and the country we chase them in.
"The mountains have a way of returning what you invest in them. Prepare well, and the country meets you halfway."
- Based in
- Oklahoma, USA
- Day job
- Senior PM · EPC
- Chasing
- NZ Himalayan Tahr
Current adventure
Preparing for a New Zealand Himalayan Tahr hunt.
The Southern Alps in late winter. Steep sidehills, sudden weather, and an animal that lives in country most people only ever see from a plane. I'm planning it inside Basecamp — training, budgeting, gear, itinerary — and every rough edge I find gets sanded down for the next hunter who plans theirs here.
What we stand on
Values that don't move.
- 01
Preparation over guesswork.
Show up ready. Every time.
- 02
Respect for wildlife.
The animal is the reason we're here.
- 03
Ethical hunting.
Fair chase. Clean shots. No shortcuts.
- 04
Continuous learning.
Every hunt is a lesson we bring home.
- 05
Conservation.
We leave the country better than we found it.
- 06
Honesty.
About cost, difficulty, and what we don't yet know.
- 07
Tools hunters actually use.
If it isn't used in camp, it doesn't ship.
A note before you go
Whether you're planning your first hunt close to home or a once-in-a-lifetime adventure halfway around the world, I hope Basecamp helps you spend less time planning and more time doing what you love.
I'll see you at Basecamp.
— Jordan