If you've ever been hiking down the trail and felt an extraordinary sense of connection to your surroundings, you've experienced a deepening of your spiritual relationship to nature. This feeling may have come in the form of clarity and awe for what you were seeing- maybe a lone giant red cedar you' …

Over Labor Day weekend we headed up to the Sierra for a 4 day/3 night backpacking trip hiking the Thousand Islands Lake Loop in the Ansel Adams Wilderness. I was lucky enough to receive a prototype Kula Cloth™ from Kula Cloth Founder and Musical Mountaineer, Anastasia Allison, to try o …