It began with a cedar.
In 2017, our founder Aria spent a quiet afternoon under a single thousand-year-old red cedar on the Olympic Peninsula. She'd planned a long hike. She ended up sitting against the trunk for four hours.
What surprised her wasn't the tree. It was how much the forest revealed itself once she stopped moving through it. Wrens, woodpeckers, the slow drift of a salmon-scented breeze from the river below. She came home and started planning a different kind of guided experience.
funnudgetrail is what grew from that afternoon. A small team of naturalists, ecologists, and former backcountry guides who all decided, independently, that the trail itself was the point.
