Winning The Mount Rainier Lottery & Protecting the Places We Love

Backpacking in Mount Rainier National Park

The Mt. Rainier Early Access Lottery is February 10 through March 3, 2025

Mt. Rainier National Park is a place of breath-taking beauty and adventure. Its towering glaciers, ancient forests, and wildflower-covered meadows make for an adventure of a lifetime. Whether you’re planning to hike the Wonderland Trail, or explore one of its many hidden corners, this park has something magical for everyone.

Join us for an unforgettable virtual tour through Mount Rainier National Park. We’ll showcase the park’s most spectacular scenery, provide expert guidance on the wilderness permit process, and teach you how to protect this precious landscape for generations to come.

What You’ll Learn:

Everything You Need to Know About Mount Rainier

• Pros and cons of hiking and backpacking the Wonderland Trail, Spray Park, Somerland
• Where to find the most beautiful scenery and best views
• Best time to visit to avoid the crowds
• Rainier by the numbers – how many visitors and their impacts

The Early Access Lottery process

• How to apply
• Lottery deadlines and fees
• What to do if you win
• Walk up permits

The fragile environment and our impacts on it and local emergency services

How you can help protect the places we love by practicing Leave No Trace

• Seven Principles of Leave No Trace
• Backcountry hygiene practices

Our Panelists:

Teresa Hagerty: Board Member, Washington’s National Parks Foundation

Teresa will discuss the natural treasures in each area of the park, the Lottery process, deadlines and fees. She will also discuss the impacts hikers and backpackers have on the area as well as local emergency services including SAR.

Bonnie Ackerman: LNT Educator

Bonnie will discuss the Leave No Trace Principles and best practices as they pertain to the Mount Rainier.

Anastasia Allison: Founder Kula Cloth

Anastasia will discuss peeing, pooping, periods and personal hygiene in Mount Rainier National Park and other environmentally sensitive areas. She’ll discuss how to go, where to go and other important things to know so that you can help keep these places pristine for others on the trail.

About the Kula Academy:

Since the pandemic, the Kula Academy has hosted nearly 600 classes and events. We’ve hiked sections of the PCT, summited volcanoes, paddled wild rivers, camped under starlit skies, painted, jumped into cold water for no good reason and danced — A LOT! Along the way, we’ve removed heaps of garbage from the Mountain Loop Highway, planted deciduous and evergreen trees, and taught people how to leave the world a better place. It’s a corner of the universe where adventure, creativity and stewardship collide!

Whether you’re here to learn about backcountry permits, master winter camping, learn “How Not to Die” doing the things you love, or simply because a pee cloth brought you our way, doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’re here! And we’re glad that our paths have crossed. We hope that you’ll join us on our adventures because you’re the missing ingredient in our trail mix. Come ready to laugh, learn, and leave with new friends and hopefully a deeper connection to others, yourself, and the world around us.

Check out all of our classes here. And if you’re interested in teaching a class, feel free to reach out to allison@kulacloth.com