TRAIL NOTES
Notes from the field
DESERT & DENIM 2017
Two years ago, twenty-three pioneering brands gathered in California’s high desert to celebrate those who create, specifically the artist and craftsman. They were there to dance, drink, and party, but...
DESERT. COAST. MOUNTAINS
Desert. Coast. Mountains. These are the wild places we go every year, chasing the yearly rhythm of the plants. We’re in the Desert following the seasonal transition of late winter...
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...
WHY USE INCENSE?
“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...