Our yosemite Journey- August 8th-16th
Join Catherine Cunningham, PhD naturalist, wildlife whisperer, and wilderness guide as we explore the High Sierra backcountry and Yosemite nature sanctuary. Gift yourself a full 7 days to nurture your connection to nature and to remember your own true human nature. In the quiet alpine landscape time slows, our senses awaken, our heart relaxes, and we can breathe in more deeply Nature’s healing life force.
Together, we will hike a moderate 7-mile/day (average) route from our Yosemite Valley starting point, switchback up the iconic Yosemite falls to the sacred headwaters of Indian Creek, wrap around the glacially polished granite batholiths down to Tenaya Lake and around the backside of Half Dome to Little Yosemite Valley, crossing rivers and forests and waterfalls. We will stop often and camp at special locations to immerse ourselves in a sweet selection of sensory, soulful, social, strength-building, stress-releasing earthing and forest bathing experiences in Nature.
Come curious, awake, and open to new ways of walking in the world.
Our Wilderness Guide
Catherine Cunningham, PhD is an educator, film-maker, and naturalist trained in ecology and anthropology. For nearly 20 years with Eikosphere and Natural Intelligence Media, she has produced media and interactive experiences for international clients in business and government aimed at delivering positive economic, social, and environmental narratives on global conservation and climate change.
She has lead excursions in the Sierras, Rockies, and Alps with Wilderness Ventures, Mountain Travel Sobek, and Rainbow Ventures and is now leading trips with her own company, Natural Intelligence. Over the years, she has taught corporate sustainability & story-telling, climate communications, biology, ecology, botany, and environmental science at Arizona State University, Chapman University, and Denver State. In 2016, she designed one of the first hybrid virtual/real university courses on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, as well, a post-graduate program in conservation with UNESCO for the MAB (Man the Biosphere).
Over her professional career, Catherine has traveled, written, photographed, and filmed in 74 countries. Many excursions have led to the production of campaigns, films, or new media narratives for clients in nature, business, government, and finance to reconnect to the natural world and to reinvest in the regeneration of healthy ecosystems.
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This is the best time to be in the High Sierra, California. The days are still long and warm, the high mountain flowers are blooming, most of the snow has melted into the cool running rivers, and the alpine is alive with wildlife.
Catherine’s Top 7 picks for Nature Adventures in the World for 2025
1. SACRED VALLEY, PERU
Please contact me if you would be interested to join in a small, private journey along the ancient Inca Trail to the Sungate to meet the family that holds the ancient Inca line.
2. YUCATAN PENINSULA, MEXICO
Please contact me if you are interested to explore the ancient Mayan ruins, temples, and sacred sites on the Yucatan Peninsula.
3. PATAGONIA, CHILE/ARGENTINA
Please contact me if you are interested to be part of a winter tour to the maritime, majestic Patagonia mountain range
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Imagine all the amazing wild places, wildlife, and wonderful people in the world we could explore to recover our own bio-cultural heritage and to remember our own Natural Intelligence
