Trail Notes

REDWOOD FOG

Redwood fog is different than ocean fog. When the first winter storms of the season come in from the Gulf of Alaska, they roll ashore into the coastal mountains of...

“Most brands [of incense] are manufactured in India and China and they combine plant resins, wood powders, perfumes, and oils with glue containing formaldehyde and phthalates. When burned, this combination...

TOPANGA CANYON FIELD LAB 2016 – OUR LOVE SONG TO THE SPRING

You’re driving down California’s Highway 1, somewhere south of Big Sur, Neil Young’s “Everybody Knows This is Nowhere” playing on the scratchy radio. Blue sky, the Pacific Ocean, unbearable beauty...

TRAIL VIBES VOL. 16: TOPANGA CANYON – NAKED HIPPIES IN THE CANYON

There are two Southern Californias—the one made of freeways, stripmalls, and endless tract homes, and the better one. The better, deeper, counterculture dream Southern California. Dusty, sun-flared 70’s Polaroids, Graham...

SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING PART 3: REDWOODS AND DELICATE WHOLE PLANT HARVESTING

Hall, our founder, has been hiking redwood trails for years. We generally harvest wild overgrowth because working with plants can have a lasting impact on the plants themselves and ecosystem...

HALL’S SALMON-ON-THE-TRAIL TECHNIQUE

Two of the many reasons I love early summer make me think I might be a bear. Like, the animal kind, a grizzly. I could live solely on salmon and...

A FILM FROM DESERT & DENIM

Candy Mountain Collective made this amazing video from our second annual trade show Desert & Denim 2016. After watching you can check out JR Founder Hall Newbegin‘s interview with Code...