The idea for Base Camp Legends was sparked by a random comment about creating a hunting and fishing magazine that focused on hunting big game in the Western United States. After tossing the idea around for a few months, co-founders of Base Camp Legends, Gary Sorenson and Tom Sorenson brought their idea to a friend and marketing guru, Justin Foster. Justin’s immediate impact was to sway the Father-Son team of Gary and Tom to pursue a website rather than a magazine. The idea was born to create a website completely devoted to giving hunters, fishermen, campers, hikers, and people who love the outdoors in general, a place to tell their stories and share their memories.

Gary Sorenson

Gary Sorenson is the father half of the Father-Son team. An avid outdoorsman from his childhood in Minnesota, Gary brings a wealth of stories, memories, and experience to Base Camp Legends. From ice fishing with his dad on the frozen Minnesota lakes, to hunting blacktail in Western Oregon, mule deer and elk in Eastern Oregon, and finally to his conversion to archery hunting for elk in his present home state of Idaho, he still finds that each experience is better than the last. As the business and finance manager for the company, he feeds off experience from running his own masonry business for thirteen years out of Oregon and his own insurance business in Idaho for the last 12 years.

Tom Sorenson

Tom Sorenson shares his fathers exuberance for the outdoors from growing up hunting pheasants, quail, and chukar in Eastern Oregon as a kid and then learning the ropes of big game hunting in Idaho. Like his father, Tom enjoys the entire experience hunting brings - from the preparation and the camp life to the beauty in the land and the opportunity to match wits with big game. Tom is the editor and ‘do-all’ guy. From running the video camera, to editing video, he also is the main blogger and runs the ‘hands on’ end of things. Mostly self taught, he enjoys the challenges that videography presents and loves the opportunity to write on a daily basis.

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