Innovation Growth Platform – Trailblazing Forward
Welcome to the Innovation Growth Platform at Jaroconca—our shared fireside for thriving ideas, refined instincts, and breakthroughs designed for life beyond the beaten path. Whether you’re mapping your first solo trek through unknown terrain or reimagining how gear adapts to harsh wilderness realities, this platform is where sparks of innovation turn into meaningful journeys.
Founded by Elvric Xelvaris in the heart of Michigan’s outdoor heritage, Jaroconca was never just about survival or exploration—it was about evolving with nature, listening closely to its rhythms, and adapting our systems to serve both the land and the adventurer. Every branch of innovation we grow from here leans toward one direction: forward.
What This Space Is For
We created the Innovation Growth Platform to unify the adventurers, makers, and thinkers who believe there’s always a better way to move with the wild. This isn’t a product showcase or a trend report—it’s a trailhead. Here, you’ll find solution-focused ideas that emerge from true backcountry experience, developed through field-informed strategy and creative vision.
Think of this space as equal parts gear lab, story hall, and collective field journal. Whether it’s pioneering ultralight alternatives or rethinking how remote communication tools fit in the alpine landscape, we’re here to question, prototype, test, and refine together.
What We Value as Innovators
- Practical Curiosity: We ask “how might this work better?”—not from a whiteboard, but from rain-slick rock faces, high desert ridgelines, and frostbitten forests.
- Resilience by Design: We seek improvements not just in gear but in the systems behind exploration—navigation, hydration, thermoregulation, and safety rituals that keep us well, not just moving.
- Experience-Driven Insight: Your insights as a solo backpacker, off-grid survivalist, or weekend trail-seeker matter. If it doesn’t work when your fingers are numb, it’s not ready for this community.
- Respect for the Elements: The natural world isn’t a backdrop. It’s the terrain we learn from. All our improvements pay respect to its unpredictability and power.
How We Expand and Elevate
Within the Innovation Growth Platform, ideas are shared—not pitched. We offer a place to present beta-maps of your vision and invite feedback from a community fluent in conditions, craftsmanship, and edge-case scenarios.
You’ll find no dominance of jargon here—only well-articulated questions like: What works in deep winter bivvy systems? How might shelter materials offset weight without sacrificing durability over snow? Could a modular trail guide adapt in real-time with satellite sync?
These are the kinds of questions we invite, and the kind of inventive clarity we foster. In turn, we explore them with transparent critique—firm but respectful, solution-oriented rather than reactionary.
Joining the Conversation
While we encourage contributors from varying backgrounds—technical designers, field sprites, ice climbers, expedition documentarians—our only essential membership requirement is sincere curiosity. The more hands and minds in the circle, the more resilient our next push becomes.
Interested in writing, testing, or teaming up to pursue layered wilderness dilemmas? Reach out. Your unique spark contributes to a constellation others haven’t yet recognized.
Impact Areas We’re Already Charting
- Innovative layering strategies for sudden storm systems
- Survival pack reconfiguration for ultralight vertical climbs
- Field-adaptable firetech in permafrost regions
- Modular hydration units with terrain-driven pressure control
- Efficient recovery meal prepping in sub-zero temperatures
- Redesigning solar bank carrying systems to enable stealth orientation
Each exploration opens more questions—many of which are probably already waiting somewhere within you.
Where We Grow From
We’re rooted in Pontiac, Michigan, but the Innovation Growth Platform pulses far beyond our coordinates. Our headquarters at 1225 Corpening Drive is where prototypes are packed, field results recorded, and backcountry philosophies sharpened into concepts you’ll see take shape here.
What grows in the wilderness doesn’t grow apart from it—it grows because of it. And that’s how we approach growth: not as an ambitious sprint, but as acclimatization. Learn the climate, adapt, ascend.
Contact, Collaborate & Contribute
To propose a concept, share a hypothesis, or test an evolving idea alongside our team, email us directly at [email protected]. You’re also welcome to connect via phone at +1 248-451-9558. Our team is here Monday through Friday, 9 AM–5 PM, and we’re genuinely excited to hear what you’re building toward.
A Note from Our Founder
Elvric Xelvaris didn’t set out to build just a gear company—he created Jaroconca to make space for the quietly radical idea that nature teaches more than it tests. From developing wilderness guides to exploring the limits of ultralight survival hacks, his vision is rooted in one steady belief: we are all stewards of the unknown, and innovation is a trail anyone can blaze, together.
Next Steps
This page is merely the doorway. If you’re already brimming with trials, discoveries, or ideas shaping outdoor performance and wellbeing, we’d love to help you grow them into something greater. Welcome to the Platform. Bring your questions. Bring your maps. Let’s build something brave—with care, and curiosity, and clarity of purpose.
Begin your exploration right here with Jaroconca’s Front Page.