The Kula Blog

How to Handle Your Period While Backpacking: A Complete Guide for Hikers

Can you backpack on your period?

Absolutely.

Your period doesn't have to keep you off the trail. Learn how to manage menstruation while backpacking with practical hygiene tips, Leave No Trace guidance, and product recommendations for a more comfortable backcountry experience.

What’s in My Backpacking Hygiene Kit (From a Former Park Ranger + Backpacking Instructor)

A former park ranger's complete, refreshingly honest backpacking hygiene kit — how to handle peeing, pooping, periods, and staying fresh in the backcountry, with all the gear I actually carry. (No Backpacking Hygiene Olympics required.)

An Eco-Conscious Guide to Austin Psych Fest

Heading to Austin Psych Fest 2026? Here’s your complete survival guide for three days of psychedelic music, dusty dancing, Texas heat, sustainability tips, festival hygiene hacks, transportation logistics, and everything you need to know before stepping into the cosmic magic at The Far Out Lounge. From packing lists and eco-friendly festival practices to hydration and Leave No Trace tips, this guide will help you fest smarter — and stay comfortable while doing it.

The Ultimate Guide to Peeing, Pooping & Periods While Backpacking (Outdoor Hygiene 101)

Outdoor hygiene 101: how to pee, poop, and handle your period while backpacking—without overthinking it.

My Top 10 Favorite Backpacking Tips (From a Backpacking Instructor)

Make your next backpacking trip easier, more efficient, and way more enjoyable with these 10 practical backpacking tips—from camp setup to smart gear hacks (plus one bonus tip you won’t expect).

How to Clean a Kula Cloth (At Home & in the Backcountry)

How do you clean a Kula Cloth? Learn step-by-step methods for washing your pee cloth at home or in the backcountry, including Leave No Trace–friendly tips.

How to Pee in the Woods: A Complete Guide for Beginners

Learn how to pee in the woods with confidence using simple techniques, Leave No Trace principles, and hygiene tips—so you can feel comfortable and prepared on any outdoor adventure.

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. 

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… 

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:

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.

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...

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,...

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.

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?"

Discovering your inner purpose - from 'Stuck to Summit' with Kula Founder Anastasia Allison

When you discover that stillness that lives inside you, the fears and doubts melt away. The truest version of yourself arises and everything you create is created with love.