Team Contact
Welcome to Lescohid — your fellow travelers in wilderness preparedness, frontier exploration, and outdoor truth-telling. From the wooded trails of northern Minnesota to alpine ridgelines and arid canyonlands, Lescohid’s work emerges from one honest belief: that connection to wildness isn’t a fashion — it’s a faculty. Our team keeps that faculty alert, disciplined, and awake. If you’re here, it might be because you read something that changed how you scout a route, store firestarter, or test your tent’s guyline tension in cold wind. Or maybe a curiosity has grown sharper, and now you’re ready to reach out. This page tells you exactly how to do that.
We’re not a call center — we’re a field-conscious organization shaped by near misses, proven methods, trail grit, craft notes, and the conviction that people deserve usable, field-tested information to stay resilient outdoors. Whether your question is about contributor opportunities, product reviews, map accuracy, mentorship, reprints, or field feedback — you’ll find structure and sincerity here.
Our Shared Commitment
Our commitment to readers and peers is clarity, timeliness, and focus. We know inboxes are ecosystems. So we treat correspondence the way we treat trail tools: purposeful, compact, and enduring. When you contact us, know this — we read everything. Response times vary by season (especially during field intensives), but we hold ourselves to field standards, not empty acknowledgments. That means if we write back late, we’ll say why — like we would if camp arrived later than dusk.
Contacting the Right People
Our internal pathways mirror the terrain we cover — specific, mapped, but open to detours. Here’s how to reach the Lescohid team according to your purpose, so your query meets the right crew member with less drift.
General Inquiries
For general correspondence about our publishing schedule, trail events, collaborative workshops, or community meet-ups in the Shoreview region and beyond, send your message to [email protected]. Please include your name, location, and clearly marked subject line (e.g., “Field School Inquiry: Boundary Waters Edition”).
Editorial Matters
If you wish to report an error in a survival guide, suggest new field content, share errata, or inquire about thematic submissions tied to gear testing and trailcraft, you are welcome to begin a conversation with our editorial team. Most cycles set content drafts 4–6 weeks in advance and field-tested pieces need time to verify. Reach out and we’ll align cadence with terrain.
Gear Review Submissions
Lescohid’s gear reviews are honest, unembellished, and rooted in fail-test practice. We do not accept payment for favorable mentions. We do accept sample gear that meets our expedition parameters (weather range tolerance, pack weight, durability). Gear lenders pursuing integrity over promotional flash are welcome to initiate contact. Our field testers log hours, not unboxing videos. If that’s what you’re about, we’re glad to talk.
Wildcraft Contributors & Mapmakers
If you’re submitting a dry blend recipe that kept you nourished at 8,000 feet, mapping switchback alternates off Lake Superior Trail zones, or documenting effects of campfire restrictions in boreal wilderness — talk to us. We commission original work sparingly but with care. Begin with a precise field moment and build out. That’s the kind we move toward. Want to start that path? Begin here: Trail Navigation Essentials.
Backoffice and Logistics
Vendors, print vendors, training camp registrars, and municipality liaisons can reach our operations desk through the general inbox. Label your subject in square brackets (e.g., “[Print Logistics] Overnight Guidebook Proofing”) for swift sorting. We value efficiency grounded in respect — paperwork deserves the same grace as paracord lashing.
Visiting Lescohid in Person
Our headquarters is located at 3935 B Street, Shoreview, Minnesota 55126, United States. It’s more field kit closet than high-gloss lobby — filled with topo sheets, archival packs, stacked publication proofs, and dog-eared notebooks next to trail rations. If you’re delivering documents, conducting an interview, or visiting to engage in a workshop demo, we ask that you book time in advance. We’re a small team, often between edits and elevation marks — and we want to give you our undivided attention when you arrive.
Open Monday to Friday, 9 AM–5 PM CST
Accessibility and Ground-Truthing
Accessibility isn’t an afterthought; it’s a field requirement. If you’re reaching out and need accommodations — large text summaries, captioned map guides, or a call transcript — let us know plainly. We’ll adjust and respond without theater. We are also open to feedback if we missed a blind spot. Respect in trailcraft means respect in interface too.
Response and Rhythm
We value deliberate response over automated reply. Sometimes we consult maps or climb back into the tent to verify your question before answering. Think of it as hunkering down before a serviceable ridge descent. (We err on the side of getting it right.) Our target rhythm is 24–48 hours during standard field season; longer during midwinter transit or shoulder-season gear lab rotations.
Final Thoughts
At Lescohid, we don’t treat correspondence as obligation — we treat it as extension of our compass. How we respond reflects who we are: attentive, honest, and accountable. We won’t use nine words where four will do. We won’t formalize warmth into industry jargon. Mostly, we’ll meet your message with care, because you trusted us with your questions. That trust matters. Fieldfolk know what it takes to earn it.
So if you’re carrying an idea, critique, suggestion, or offering — send it. The trail between readers and contributors matters as much as the trail beneath our boots.
For all inquiries, use [email protected]. If your story starts there, we’ll help you take the next step.