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LOGAN — LJ Wilde's efforts to help his daughter Luci stay on the trail have now grown into a full-blown business. It all started when Luci grew out of her riding backpack.
"She was born with a rare genetic condition," Wilde said. "She's essentially a paraplegic, unable to walk on her own."
Refusing to change his family's outdoor lifestyle, Wilde went to work, using his skills as an engineer by trade to build a solution. What he came up with was essentially a multi-terrain wheelchair that could be strapped to the waist of the person pulling it.
It's now known as the "Cascade Cart."
"We started meeting people everywhere we went," Wilde explained. "We met dozens of people who were interested in it and thought it was a great thing for what we did."
Now, a hundred pre-orders later, Wilde's company, Huckleberry Hiking, sold its 1000th chair earlier this week.
"I wanted families to be able to go wherever they wanted to go up in the mountains," Wilde said. "And what I didn't realize though, is just how many people hungered for that, like I did."
Wilde said that state parks in Alabama and Wyoming have since caught on to the idea too, purchasing the Cascade Carts to place at trailheads.
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