Kula Cloth® was born during a trip to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in Washington State. Anastasia Allison — a park ranger at the time, whose job was protecting places exactly like this one — was enjoying a spectacular sunset over Robin Lakes when she walked around a larch tree to discover... a giant pile of toilet paper.

Upon returning home, she started researching Leave No Trace options for toilet paper in the wilderness. She discovered the concept of a pee cloth and decided to give it a try — even though she had to admit, it sounded a little weird at first. She didn't like the idea of a bandana, so she bought a small blue piece of microfiber.

That piece of fabric was a game changer. As a women's backpacking instructor for nearly ten years, she started encouraging all of her students to use a pee cloth in the wilderness.

As a joke, Anastasia started taking photos of her blue microfiber pee cloth in various spectacular wilderness settings. She was taking a dramatic photo of it on the Wind River High Route when she caught herself thinking, I wish that looked cooler. Suddenly she had the idea to design an intentional pee cloth — something she'd feel proud to clip to her pack. She wanted it to feel like an actual piece of gear, not an afterthought rag or a scrap of cloth.

After nearly three years of obsessive research — with zero experience in the textile industry and no idea how to use a sewing machine — and hundreds of hours of field testing with over 30 adventurous testers, she finalized the design. The Kula Cloth® was born.