When we first stumbled upon the outdoor apparel company Páramo, the name was intriguing. I knew it had a meaning and definition, and some quick searching yielded that some ecologists describe the páramo broadly as “all high, tropical, montane vegetation above the continuous timberline” or even more simply “the páramo is the ecosystem of the regions above the continuous forest line, yet below the permanent snowline”. This makes complete sense for a company who is providing gear…
