Shawn-Patrick Bland
Co-founder of Bushwhackr, helping builda platform that brings together preparedness, outdoor skill development, and a stronger sense of ownership over how people share their experience.
About Bushwhackr
Built for people who would rather live the story than hand it over to a platform.
Bushwhackr started with a love for the woods, a need to be ready, and the belief that the people living these experiences should own how they share them. Too many platforms are built around extraction, surveillance, and control. We wanted something different.
We wanted a place where bushcraft, preparedness, field skills, packouts, trails, camp knowledge, and real outdoor experience could be shared by a community that respects self-reliance, stewardship, and each other.
Why Bushwhackr Exists
We are tired of corporations taking our data, shaping the way we communicate, and governing how people share the experiences that matter most to them.
Rooted in the Real World
Bushwhackr was born from time outdoors, not boardrooms. It comes from the reality of building skills, testing gear, learning from mistakes, and staying prepared.
Built for Community
This is a place to practice, prove it, and share it — with tools that support your time in the field instead of distracting from it.
The Mission
A more trusted, useful, and grounded outdoors platform.
Bushwhackr is being built for people who care about more than posting a pretty picture. It is for those who want to document trails, improve their packouts, learn plants, connect with others, and develop real confidence in the field.
It is also being built with a different philosophy: users should not feel like the product. Your knowledge, your stories, and your experience should not be stripped down into engagement bait or mined for maximum extraction.
We believe the future of outdoor community should feel more like a trusted base camp and less like a noisy algorithm.
What We Believe
Preparedness matters
Confidence comes from skill, repetition, and having the right tools when they count.
Experience should be shared on your terms
Outdoor knowledge should belong to the people earning it, not be controlled by platforms chasing leverage.
Technology should support the field
The best tools help you prepare, navigate, learn, and connect without pulling you away from what is real.
Founders
Built by people who actually care about the woods.
Bushwhackr is being shaped by founders who care about the craft, preparedness, independence, and building something with real utility for the community.
Ben Martin
Co-founder of Bushwhackr, shaping a community-first product built around the outdoors, practical readiness, and a more authentic way to connect with others who live for the trail.
Support Bushwhackr
Help keep Bushwhackr independent.
Bushwhackr is free to use. We cover the app, the infrastructure, the storage, and the time it takes to keep building it. If you believe in what we are creating and feel compelled to support it, you can.
Contributions help us keep the platform growing while staying focused on privacy, independence, and building something genuinely useful for the community. Support is never expected, but it is always deeply appreciated.
Support links are optional and provided for people who want to help keep Bushwhackr free and community-first.
The Bottom Line
Bushwhackr is for people who want something more real.
More ownership. More usefulness. More trust. More connection to the land, the skillset, and the stories worth telling. This is a platform built from a love of the woods, a need to be prepared, and the drive to build the resources to actually get it done.