Patagonia Field Report: Double Down ...
The paddle out is simple but creepy, with cold, dark water and undulating bull kelp doing a spooky little dance. As waves sweep over the kelp forest, bowlingball ...

Patagonia Field Report: The Naked Mountain by Steve House - alpine climbing adventures
... . I finish the anchor, de-rig the rappel, and yell for Vince to come down. We’ve been downclimbing and rappelling the Rupal Face for 26 hours without a break ...

Patagonia Snowboarding Ambassador Liz Daley
Liz’s passion for climbing big mountains then snowboarding down started with an ascent of Mount Rainier followed by a pledge never to walk down a mountain ...

Patagonia Enviro Essay: Coming Back
... gray wolves – have been having a hard time trying to recover down in New Mexico and Arizona. Physically, it’s harsher country – drier and ...

Patagonia Field Report: Torre Traverse
... as if I have become my grandfather, my father, my mother – and their fear for my safety crushes down on me ...

Patagonia Field Report: The Slovak Direct, Denali’s South Face, with Scott Backes and Mark Twight
... I climb up 10 feet, place a good stopper in a crack, and lower 15 feet down to my left to gain a ramp. The topo shows this to be ice, but the ice is gone ...