The Kula Blog

October 10, 2024

5 Backpacking Gear Items You Can Totally Make at Home (If You're Really Into Suffering)

So, you’ve decided that paying for actual gear is for suckers and it’s time to embrace the “true” backpacking lifestyle: DIY all the things! Why settle for tried-and-tested equipment when you can whip up your own gear with the grace of a mad scientist? If you enjoy endless trial and error, and want to spend your trail time cursing your life choices, here are five backpacking gear items you can definitely make at home.

July 16, 2024

Is the Kula Cloth Just a Marketing Ploy? A GYN Nurse Weighs In on the Debate

Is the Kula Cloth a marketing ploy? In the ever-evolving world of outdoor gear, new products often spark debates about their necessity and authenticity. One such product is the Kula Cloth, an antimicrobial pee cloth designed for outdoor enthusiasts, particularly women.

July 3, 2024

How to clean a Kula Cloth!

You've got a Kula Cloth -- but how do you clean it? In this post, Anastasia Allison, the founder of Kula Cloth will tell you exactly how to care for your Kula Cloth -- at home or in the backcountry!

June 23, 2024

How to Pee Outside - A Comprehensive Guide

In the words that follow, I’m going to attempt to do what has never been done before: I’m going to write the most comprehensive guide to peeing outside that has EVER BEEN WRITTEN.

June 2, 2024

Late Season Backpacking Tips!

What started out as a relatively short paragraph… has rapidly grown into a comprehensive guide to high alpine late-season backpacking. I hope that all of you with golden larch trees in your eyes find this information helpful and valuable as you are planning your trip.

February 26, 2024

Why I almost cancelled the Dance Experiment But didn't...

Today is my 1,144th day of dancing in a row. If I estimate that I (conservatively) dance, on average, for 20 minutes per day… that’s 22,880 minutes of dancing… or 381 hours… or 15.89 days of dancing. One of my friends asked me a few months ago if it was possible that I was the ‘World Record Holder’ in most days of consecutive dancing in human history…

February 26, 2024

Breaking up with my phone* [what happened next]

As many of you know, I recently shared a two part series documenting my own compulsive addiction to my cell phone and social media and subsequent ‘break up’ with that addiction. If you haven’t read those, you can find them here:

February 26, 2024

Let's start at the beginning... ... and your first 'homework' assignment.

Ok, things are about to get interesting and I might share some things that could be difficult to hear. But trust me - it gets better and better and better. In order for any of ‘this’ to make sense, we have to start… as cliché as it might sound… at the beginning.

August 24, 2019

Self-Care for the Soul with Rawlogy Founder Marek Bowers

Kula community: Marek Bowers, founder of Rawlogy, reached out to me earlier this year through e-mail after discovering Kula at 2 Foot Adventures. We became e-mail friends, and quickly realized...

June 10, 2019

Chelsea Murphy from @She_ColorsNature

Hi Kula community! I'm so thrilled to introduce our latest feature in the Kula Adventure Blog Series. This week we are featuring Chelsea Murphy from @she_colorsnature. Chelsea is a mom,...

May 2, 2019

Theresa Silveyra - Ultraneer, LNT Steward and Outdoor Womxn

"Local" LNT refers to the seven principles and how they can guide us to make choices that help us to respect, care for, and limit our impact within outdoor spaces. But why stop there? It doesn't make sense to value our outdoor spaces and preach the LNT principles if we don't think about how our everyday actions "impact" humanity and the rest of the planet.

April 11, 2019

Protecting our Public Lands with Britany from The 11th Essential!

"The outdoors is the place where I am able to feel like that happy kid running through the forest again with no other cares or responsibilities other than those in that exact moment and that is absolutely the most beautiful thing to me. I want my nieces and nephews to have those same opportunities when they get older. I want those places that fill my soul to still be around to give them that same feeling. This is why I will fight to protect those places any possible way I can because if we won’t protect the places we love, who will?"