| GoFASTandLIGHT.com was founded
after the owner suffered two broken vertebrae in a 1999 mountain biking accident. After a long rehabilitation,
he tried to go backpacking and discovered that while he felt 99% recovered,
his back could not support as much weight. So began a quest for lightweight backpacking gear. While it was relatively easy to find light tents, packs and sleeping bags, it was more difficult to find the items that go into a backpack - flashlights, cooking gear, fishing poles, and other accessories. GoFASTandLIGHT.com is dedicated to finding and offering items that are
lightweight, do
double duty (ex:
LED equipped Baseball caps as headlamps), or are
technological leaders in
their category (ex:
Fenix flashlights). Our focus is on items that go in,
on, or around your backpack, tent, and sleeping bag. We also strive to lighten your load, while not lightening your wallet. We try to find items that are
low cost. Anyone can offer an expensive $50 lightweight titanium
cutlery set, but if a $4 plastic SPORK is just as light - why not go that way?
Additionally, we strive to be GREEN. We use recyclable cardboard and newspaper to pack and ship
items..
For you, ordering online is a very green way to shop. Your car
stays parked and the delivery of your purchase is done efficiently by the
carriers. We also offer GREEN items, such as Biodegradable plastic cutlery (made of corn), and Biodegradable Fishing Line (we were first to offer it online), and other items that promise to keep the environment we love, clean. We try to treat every customer as a friend.
If you have a problem with one of our products,
email
or call us - we want to help. Our store is online, as you see it here. We have stock on the shelves for 98% of the items.
We also USE the items that we sell. They are in our OWN backpacks. So we know they are good.
Technical Stuff (for our geek friends) - Our website is on a Dell Quad Processor Server with 2GB of RAM and a RAID Disk Array.
Bandwidth is provided by a T3 connection (45Mbit - over 30 times the speed of DSL) so it is FAST
to make your shopping easy. It is also in a locked cage at a biometric access controlled datacenter. We use encryption algorithms to protect your personal information and are
PCI compliant.
The website undergoes a weekly 3rd party audit to make sure there are no
security holes, and we systematically apply updates and patches applied to
keep it secure. We do encrypted daily differential backups & weekly full
backups stored securely offsite. Power to our server and hosting site is redundant with emergency generators and enough diesel to run them for days. All this assures a
RELIABLE, FAST, SAFE Internet Commerce environment for you.
Shop with confidence. We use SSL Encryption to safeguard your data over the Internet, during chats and in our store. Our systems are repeatedly scanned by
Control Scan
- ensuring that our systems are secure. Our web server is in a secure data center, in a locked cage, with biometrically controlled and video monitored access. Software and hardware updates, fixes are patches are continuously reviewed and applied so that we can be
PCI Compliant.
We respect your privacy and will not sell any of your personal information.
We only send our monthly email newsletter with your permission.
The goFASTandLIGHT warehouse is located in town called Gold River,
California. Gold River is on the banks of the American River,
upstream from Sacramento, California. It is not far from were gold was
discovered in 1848. From here, the whole Western Sierra Nevada Mountains
are practically in our backyard, and serve as our testing grounds.
The famous
Pacific Crest Trail cuts right through these testing grounds.
American River near goFASTandLIGHT.com offices
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