Evolution of Lorax Motor Works
This is the first post in a long series of posts about how LMW has come to be.
We felt comfortable (and competent, and motivated, and, and and) founding LMW because we fit into the following “groups”:
- Put enough engineers in a room and we’ll build something, just because we can.
- Put enough climbers/skiiers/mountaineers together and we’ll start testing our limits in the mountains, because they are there.
- Put enough environmentally concerned people together and we’ll try to do something about changing peoples habits, because that is what we do.
Over the last 10-years since we initially met (and even before on our own) we’ve all struggled with how to climb, ski and bike in the most spectacular places on earth, while making sure, that our great-grandkids can follow these same trails. Like many things mountains, from a distance, look completely solid, impenetrable and never changing. With just a trip to your local hill you can determine that is a false reality.
How do you get to where you’re going? It’s having an effect on that place you love. The mountains I love don’t get as much snow as they used to, the glaciers are receeding and there is less clean drinking water for the towns/villages and cities nearby. Routes and entire mountains are closed and I can’t feel like an explorer anymore finding my way over unfamiliar ground.
I am afraid future generations will not have the luxury of visiting the mountains, and they’ll blame me, for taking this from them. They might be right to do so, if we don’t change our ways.
As engineers, mountaineers and environmentalists we are reforming our ways. We formed Lorax Motors as we realized we could build, test, refine and promote new better ways to do the same old things.
3 years ago