Victory in Chile! Community-led Conserva Puchegüín’s successful purchase of Fundo Puchegüín is the future of grassroots conservation and a major win for our home planet.
Exploring the semi-secret "mini-big walls" of the Bighorn Mountains
Standing up for the health of lands and waters is part of every Patagonia ambassador’s job description, even when they’re off the clock.
Three friends, an avalanche and an iPhone on Yashkuk Sar I.
Looking for a temperature guide for Patagonia Yulex® Regulator® Wetsuits? Zip up—we’re diving deep.
Paige Alms, Moona Whyte and Kyle Thiermann travel into northern territory to put a slew of our cold-water surf gear to the test.
Behind the scenes of our ambassadors' trickiest and most meaningful ascents.
One runner’s attempt to link his hometown skyline becomes something much greater.
Education through risk, consequence and building the skills to live simply.
Two photographers set out on a 10-day road trip in search of connection, community and a whole bunch of singletrack.
How Tommy Caldwell is reshaping his love for rock climbing by building relationships with Indigenous stewards of Bears Ears.
Cómo la experiencia de infancia en el Sendero de los Apalaches determinó la forma en que una madre enseñaría a sus cuatro hijos a conectar con la naturaleza en el corazón de Nueva York.
For routes like Crown Royale, a lot of what goes into putting them up is falling down.
Descubriendo el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre del Ártico en pack raft.
Esquiando en el Parque Nacional Banff con dos hijas adolescentes.
Un viaje a Amami Ōshima, en Japón, transporta a Gerry Lopez hacia un sentimiento familiar en una tierra distante.
“Al interior de los esfuerzos por proteger el Valle Cochamó, en Chile, del desarrollo invasivo y el turismo masivo”.
A medida que las temperaturas suben en el suroeste, los ciclistas montañeros de Phoenix, Arizona, se aventuran en la noche para escapar del calor.
Big-wave icon Greg Long, a past Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational winner, passes the baton to the next generation during 2024’s incredible event.
How the worst climbing conditions can bring out the best in us.
¿Pueden las bicicletas, los senderos y las tradiciones ancestrales ser parte de un futuro mejor?
Wild trout populations in Southwest Montana have collapsed. Save Wild Trout says enough is enough.
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Conoce al hombre que trabaja por salvar Punta Conejo en México.
I’ve been angry at politicians for as long as I’ve been an activist. Here’s why I still vote.
After a devastating wildfire, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.
For surfer Yusei Ikariyama to save his home waters, he’ll have to first unite his community.
Un experimentado diseñador del equipo de I+D de Patagonia viaja a los Alpes suecos para poner a prueba un nuevo prototipo de mochila y una intrépida idea que replantea la forma de viajar por senderos durante varios días.
Correr no va a solucionar el problema de la contaminación por pellets de madera. Pero puede crear comunidad e incentivar la conversación. Eso es un comienzo.
One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.
After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realizes that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.
Simplicity, style and lessons in bike jazz on Eastern Washington’s Beacon Hill.
Running Up For Air no es solo una carrera. Es una comunidad, un encuentro entre amigos y un evento de recaudación por la defensa del aire limpio.
Ante el declive de la calidad del aire, una comunidad de runners se levanta.
Una amistad forjada en el mar se convierte en una poderoza alianza para la protección de rompientes.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Cómo una joven familia abordó los 2,092 kilómetros del PCT (una pista: hubo caramelos involucrados).
narinda heng lo averigua al tomar el transporte público desde Oakland al parque nacional de Yosemite.
Esta es la bitácora de un capitán sobre la mayor marejada que ha azotado los arrecifes exteriores de Oahu en los últimos años.
A nuestros cerebros les gusta hacerlo.
Estamos destruyendo lo que amamos. El enorme sistema de criaderos de peces y piscifactorías en aguas abiertas que hemos creado es, de alguna forma, una expresión de nuestro afecto hacia los peces de aguas frías como alimento, como objeto recreacional y como un recurso comercial. No obstante, y a pesar de nuestras buenas intenciones, estos…
Algunas veces, olvidarte de llegar a la cumbre es lo que te pone ahí arriba.
Tras un devastador incendio forestal, las comunidades de Lost Sierra, en California, buscan senderos para encontrar esperanza, sanación y una dosis de la magia de la tierra.
El alpinismo de alta dificultad persiste en la cordillera Huayhuash, a pesar del efecto del clima en el recorrido de las rutas.
En un pequeño pueblo de montaña en British Columbia, una mujer aprovecha los senderos para ayudar a sanar heridas y conectar dos comunidades.
El campamento Footprints Running Camp no solo se trata de correr, sino también de encontrar soluciones para la crisis climática.
En un mundo dominado por hombres, Juliana García está abriendo el camino para una nueva generación de mujeres montañeras.
La disminución de los insectos acuáticos debería preocuparnos a todos.
Un viaje fotográfico en el tiempo con Gary Bigham, veterano colaborador de Patagonia.
Those with the most to lose are uniting to save the Northwest’s salmon and steelhead.
Acompaña a Lor Sabourin hacia las quebradas de caliza del norte de Arizona, en su intento por encadenar cinco de los más duros largos de su historia y dar forma a una comunidad donde todes puedan florecer siendo quienes realmente son.
Un pueblo despojado de su vínculo con el océano encuentra una oportunidad de reconexión.
Una vida llena de grandiosas escaladas con buenos amigos.
Para estas mujeres afganas, escalar en Yosemite es conectar con su tierra natal.
Cydney Knapp y su esposo, Bartek, sabían que querían criar a sus hijos para amar el estar afuera, así que aprendieron a navegar el cambio y abrazaron el caos.
These women were forced to flee their homes in Afghanistan. Now the climbing community is helping them build a new one.
Sin conectar totalmente con algunas formas de activismo climático, Josh Wharton encontró su propia forma de contribuir.
Cada cierto tiempo te cruzas con alguien cuyas acciones y conducta te inspiran, te maravillan. Así me pasó cuando conocí a Ramón Navarro. Yo tenía 19 años y estaba en lo que ya era la extensión de la temporada invernal en la legendaria costa norte de O‘ahu, Hawaii, con la esperanza de perfeccionar mis habilidades para…
Una mirada al interior de la pasión compartida por el surf en el Yakutat Surf Club al sureste de Alaska
Escenas desde la zona cero del mayor evento del surf en siete años.
TM Herbert helped put up the first ascent of the Muir Wall in 1965. His son followed in his footsteps 55 years later.
Un grupo de ciclistas de montaña desciende entre los cafetales de Colombia y explora el impacto del cambio climático sobre uno de los brebajes más amados del mundo y la vida de quienes dependen de él.
In Southeast Alaska, a Native skier searches for something deeper than powder on her homelands.
Una familia vive a su ritmo en un refugio histórico cerca de Chamonix, Francia.
Transformando el consumo eléctrico en un cambio positivo para las personas, el planeta y nuestra punta favorita.
Poet Cameron Keller Scott reads an excerpt from his piece, A River’s Own Name. View a video excerpt of A River’s Own Name at the link below. I. Valley Maker Suppose one day we were to wake up and understand the name of a river. Not the names we’ve given, but the name it asks us to…
A runner explores what it takes to find quiet in the world, and in our minds.
Un movimiento comunitario por la seguridad en la montaña.
Una oda a Raúl Revilla Quiroz, uno de los padres de la escalada mexicana.
Elder Wilson Wewa tells the creation story of Animal Village. Tara Kerzhner and Len Necefer consider how these stories can reshape stewardship.
Patagonia y Pop-Up Magazine Productions presentan una serie sobre el conocimiento.
La vida es mucho más que diversión en la playa, los resultados de los torneos de surf y lograr un buen cutback al correr una ola.
Una conversación entre Lor Sabourin y Madaleine Sorkin.
Charlie Fowler was a world-class alpinist; what did he find out in Colorado’s Wild, Wild West climbing area that kept him coming back?
Molly Kawahata sobre clima, escalada y la lucha por un cambio sistémico
Un intercambio de olas y prácticas culturales indígenas en la costa del pacífico mexicano.
Un optimismo delirante y una inmersión alpina en las South Chilcotin Mountains de British Columbia.
Reflections on the 2022 Oak Flat Prayer Run, a gathering and a protest of a planned copper mine that could destroy this sacred site.
Al aprender su idioma ancestral, una mountain biker descubre una forma distinta de relacionarse con las palabras, con ella misma y con su comunidad, así como de andar en su bicicleta.
Grappling with her aging trail dog’s declining health, a mountain biker decides to give her furry best friend one last dose of singletrack.
Mientras hacemos la transición hacia fuentes de energía renovables, no renovemos los mismos viejos errores.
On an intergenerational new routing trip in the Sierra, Tad McCrea asks, What if your best adventure is the one you’re already on?
El camino a la iluminación comienza en la ola más letal del planeta.
Una tropa de amigas montañeras aprende que cuando ponen atención a lo que ven, la confianza y la seguridad vienen de la mano.
The toughest fish you’ll ever catch could knock a few minutes off your finish time at Flyathlon, a backcountry race in Colorado that combines trail running and fly fishing.
Paddling Salish and Nimiipuu home waters, once again.
Lecciones de algo que pudo ser más serio en Alaska.
An excerpt from Dylan Tomine’s Headwaters: The Adventures, Obsession, and Evolution of a Fly Fisherman proves he was born to fish and born to write.
Nunca es muy tarde para lanzarte. Una película sobre bicis y una madre con mucha madre.
Tras casi 30 años sobre los sagrados senderos del sur de la Columbia Británica, Betty Birrell aún piensa que la vida es un gran patio de juegos. Y que nunca es muy tarde para lanzarte
Tiny but mighty, herring might be the most important fish in the ocean.
Folkeaksjonen is taking action against petroleum exploration in the Norwegian Sea.
Where worthless and priceless collide.
Hace cincuenta años, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost y Doug Robinson establecieron una ética para la escalada que ponía énfasis en la moderación y el respeto por la roca. En 2022, esa ética es más necesaria que nunca.
Un intento de establecer el menor tiempo conocido para los 296 kilómetros del sendero hacia la fuente del río Támesis.
Cuando instaron a los escaladores a dejar de usar su producto más vendido en 1972, Tom Frost e Yvon Chouinard sentaron las bases para el trabajo de Patagonia hoy en día.
Martin Johnson se embarca en su carrera más desafiante, cuando decide explorar la conexión entre la historia de las personas negras en Inglaterra y el río Támesis.
Following the impacts of snow sports through the mountains of Italy.
Big Mineral Mining is tearing up the coastline and restricting access to some of South Africa’s most pristine beaches and waves—and it’s getting way out of hand.
Upstream of the Snake River dams in Idaho, Riggins waits for the fish to return.
In North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, a collaboration between anglers and mountain bikers uses better trails to create healthier rivers.
In a tiny Colorado ski town, the world’s oldest mountain-bike club is facing the complicated reality of recreation gone right.
One woman’s against-all-odds journey to save a beautiful piece of a stolen future.
Los recientes avances en protocolos y equipamiento de seguridad, ¿hacen más peligrosos los lineups en el surf de olas grandes?
Reciprocal learning while exploring traditional Indigenous territories in British Columbia.
Niseko’s Akio Shinya on avalanches,kayak expeditions and rules to live by.
The case for readopting Indigenous fire management practices.
Ohio’s burning river made headlines in 1969. Now, the Cuyahoga’s telling a new story.
The industrious truth of British Columbia’s forgotten forests.
How Captain Liz Clark’s Tahitian residency opened a new chapter in her activist work.
Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick has always been a great deal more.
Rolling through a full-scale sensory rebellion in New England.
Buscando la confluencia entre identidad, liderazgo y escalada en roca.
The Big Muddy is polluted. Securing the Driftless Area can help clean it.
Las comunidades del Cajón del Maipo, en Chile, ven su entorno amenazado por un proyecto innecesario.
El trail runner y activista, Felipe Cancino, nos lleva en un recorrido de 120 km a través del Maipo—revelando en el camino los impactos que el proyecto hidroeléctrico Alto Maipo sobre el ecosistema local, sus comunidades y tradiciones, así como las amenazas que supone para el suministro de agua de los 7.1 millones de habitantes de Santiago.
Una entrevista con Gabo Benoit, creador de senderos y uno de los portavoces del mountain bike en Coyhaique, Chile.
Tapping into the beginner’s mind while teaching his daughter to surf.
Exploring one of the least visited but most revisited national parks, on foot.
After a difficult year, a runner finds life anew in the Sierra.
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
Building positivity, inspiration and purpose out of a racist encounter in Los Angeles.
Roots and recovery on Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands.
Una lección sobre las reglas para la construcción de senderos.
This Great Lakes surfer never felt represented in the surf scene, so she created a new surf culture of her own.
Seasoned waterman, master woodworker and Patagonia Surf Ambassador Ben Wilkinson channels his skills toward a new environmental calling.
Rule changes and the future of the Olympic Peninsula’s wild steelhead.
El coautor, Kim McCoy, relata cómo descubrió el misterio de lo que hay bajo las olas, donde el océano y la tierra se encuentran y compiten.
An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.
Ramón Navarro and Kohl Christensen bring Léa Brassy into the jaws of a Chilean monster.
Nota del Editor: Este relato fue compartido originalmente por Fletcher Chouinard en 2011, con la historia de su viaje desde California a Chile para surfear algunas de las olas más grandes que se han visto en El Buey. Sábado Kohl: “Hermano, ¡va a estar graaaaande! Nos vemos en Chile!” Domingo Kohl: “Se ve INCREÍBLE! Estoy…
La estrella del mountain bike de Becoming Ruby va en busca de algunas de las esquiadoras más poderosas allá afuera.
How a nonprofit that takes San Francisco kids surfing expanded its work in 2020.
Una mirada a los chalecos de impacto para surf y a quienes han traído de regreso a casa.
Following in Indigenous footsteps on the Ute Pass Trail.
Natasha Woodworth, la diseñadora detrás de los nuevos kits de esquí de backcountry de Patagonia, aborda el esquí y el diseño técnico con la misma competencia un tanto subestimada.
Observaciones sobre un ecosistema complejo de los amantes de la nieve en Sitka, Alaska.
Recreation in the Alabama Hills is surging at an unsustainable pace. But some people are working to ensure that it doesn’t get loved to death.
Snowboarder Alex Yoder takes a Regenerative Organic approach to his new coffee business by thinking like an astronaut.
6,000 words about dressing for alpine climbing you didn’t know you needed to know.
Clyde Aikau on why the most culturally significant big-wave event in surfing will always matter.
As editor of the world’s largest mountain bike magazine, Nicole Formosa showed her audience the world’s largest issues—and revealed the sport’s resistance to confronting them.
Ahí donde termina un camino de tierra es donde comienza un nuevo desafío, una lucha por la protección del Yosemite de Sudamérica.
Solving for Z explores IFMGA guide and father Zahan Billimoria’s relationship to the intoxicating highs and crushing blows of big mountain skiing.
Cómo Zahan Billimoria encontró el equilibrio después de una tragedia impensable.
How one suburban mountain biker’s vision for a trail system reshaped a former industrial town—and turned trail building into a family tradition.
Reflecting on a lifetime of climbing, and the risks and rewards that come with it.
From 2-foot to 20-foot, the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group (BWRAG) is sparking a global movement in surf safety.
Kohl Christensen analiza cómo surgió el BWRAG y su reciente experiencia cercana a la muerte, cortesía del arrecife de Pipeline.
El editor adjunto de BIKE Magazine elabora sobre nuestra percepción de tener el derecho a pedalear donde queramos.
Para una mejor comprensión de los peligros que representa una tóxica mina de cobre para las más de 400.000 hectáreas de terreno natural en las Aguas Limítrofes, por favor mira la película “A Northern Light” (abajo). Con una extensión superior a las 400.000 hectáreas a lo largo de la frontera entre Estados Unidos y Canadá,…
Eliza Earle, Austin Siadak y Drew Smith nos cuentan sobre la temporada del otoño 2019 escalando en Yosemite.
A Small Florida Town Was Once Host to the World’s Largest Tarpon. What Happened?
Eric Bissell captured his first published image with Patagonia on a climbing trip to establish a new route on Mount Ololokwe.
Snow lovers and professional athletes are mobilizing to elect climate leaders.
Patagonia Fly Fish releases “We Stand for the Water We Stand In” poster.
In the second installment of our “Best of Home” series, photographer, writer and editor Colin Wiseman takes us to Washington State’s gloomy, fern-filled Whatcom County for a signature Pacific Northwest ride.
A climber remembers her first experience with theunexpected on Thalay Sagar.
Una ecléctica banda de esquiadores argentinos le da vida a la comunidad del esquí de montaña local en una de las cordilleras más severas del planeta.
The Red Desert in southwest Wyoming is the largest unfenced area in the continental United States. In order to raise awareness about this threatened ecosystem, several Wyoming conservation groups have banded together to organize a trail race that brings runners, local stakeholders, and concerned citizens together to experience this place and see exactly what is at stake.
Photo editor Kyle Sparks kicks off our new social media series, “Best of Home,” documenting the everyday, out-the-back-door trails that mountain biking depends on.
Are public lands still “public” when you can’t access them?
Un audaz plan para echar de una vez a las granjas salmoneras en corrales de malla.
Running through the most-visited wilderness in the continental United States, rallying to its defense.
A trail running race in southwest Wyoming brings attention to the importance of protecting the largest unfenced area in the contiguous United States.
Me despierto temprano con el deslumbrante calor del sol africano. Colgando a 400 metros de altura en una enorme pared de granito en el centro de Madagascar, todo lo que puedo ver es negro y azul, el color del granito malgache cuando se encuentra con el cielo y, coincidentemente, el mismo color que hay en…
Dave Rastovich and Greg Long log in and discuss the current state of surfing, its cultural and ecological impacts, and where it’s headed.
Outdoor recreation can be a lifeline for rural economies, but the industry has also benefited from the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their lands.
For three women of color in Wyoming, going into the mountains isn’t about representation—it’s about reclaiming their power, together.
A French ski patroller’s move to become a permaculture farmer.
How Casper reimagined the North Platte.
Cómo las redes de pesca desechadas terminaron en la visera de nuestros gorros.
El FKT de Luke Nelson en el Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup.
Conoce a Annie Reickert, la surfista de 18 años oriunda de Maui que Paige Alms tomó bajo su tutela en Jaws y mucho más allá.
Una escaladora se va de viaje a Bishop y Las Vegas para descifrar la narrativa de quien viaja y quien escala.
Un viaje a la sierra, con buena luz y solo un caso de mal de altura.
Explorando a pie las tierras públicas de Sudamérica.
A bikepacking expedition inspired by one of North America’s most iconic landscapes, and the American Prairie Reserve’s audacious effort to restore it.
Después de años soñándolo, Nick Russell y Christian Pondella completan un descenso limpio en el Monte Morrison de la Sierra Oriental.
Levantar la voz para proteger un lugar especial antes de que desaparezca.
Si no encontraste lo que fuiste a buscar, asegúrate de disfrutar el viaje.
Enseñarle a tus hijos a pescar es una decisión inteligente. Que Yvon Chouinard le enseñe a tus hijos a pescar es genial.
Last November, Fitz Caldwell (age 6) finished his first multipitch climb, Sunnyside Bench in Yosemite National Park. He did it with his dad, Tommy.
En Coyhaique, Chile, los fantasmas de la extracción de recursos pueden ofrecer el camino hacia un futuro basado en la recreación.
Zumbando a través de la Sierra High Route.
Kimi Werner emprende un viaje a la isla de Jeju para encontrar lecciones sobre maternidad, cultura, buceo y cómo proveer para la familia, por parte de las “mujeres del mar” surcoreanas, también conocidas como las haenyeo.
Arturo Pugno, a fisherman in the Italian Alps, is the last known practitioner of an ancient style of flyfishing remarkable for its pure simplicity.
Downieville, en California, una vez fue uno de los pueblos más ricos del estado, pero hacia la mitad de la década de 1990 empezó a irse a pique. Eso hasta que un puñado de mountainbikers locales comenzó a usar los senderos aledaños para darle una nueva vida al lugar, convirtiendo al otrora pueblo fantasma en una meca de la recreación.
Sigue a Kimi Werner en el viaje de Lecciones de Jeju, donde aprendió sobre maternidad, cultura, buceo y la mantención de una familia junto a las madres del mar de Corea del Sur, las haenyeo. “El mundo parece no caer en cuenta de lo increíble que es la maternidad”, dice Kimi.
De Telegraph Creek, B.C., a Wrangell, Alaska, con esquíes y kayak
Captain Liz Clark’s been self-isolating aboard her sailboat Swell since 2005; here she provides her experiences and insight for navigating isolation during a pandemic.
Perched in the Himalaya and once accessible only by trail, India’s Zanskar region has remained largely free of Western influences for over 2,000 years. That could all change as a new highway brings a wave of instant globalization.
How Belinda Baggs went from an ‘armchair’ activist to the front lines.
After surviving calamity in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, a few skiers return to COVID-19.
Rolando Garibotti looks back at a lifetime spent in Patagonia and forward to the generation following in his footsteps.
Photo Essay: Waiting for the Wild on Oregon’s North Coast
Greg Long, Al Mackinnon and Pete Geall’s dusty search for uncrowded perfection at Location Redacted.
Feature: Squeaky Wheels, Wild Fish and Carrot Sticks
“That comfort, the ability to feel like you’re not stepping outside of some boundary; It’s not like, ‘Do I belong here?’ No, this is where I’m supposed to be.”
After a century of conflict on the Columbia between salmon and dams, the fates of these two iconic energy systems are now intertwined.
There’s nothing more important than having waves a few minutes away.
Changing our dynamics with the mountains can help us be in them longer, and appreciate them more.
When Vince Anderson took a break from alpine climbing, his mountaineering attitude manifested itself in a single-speed hardtail, on which he’s won some of the sport’s most grueling races.
The Slickrock Trail, in Moab, Utah, is one of the most popular mountain bike rides in the world. Now, under a recent BLM decision, it could also be opening to oil and gas drilling.
The Trans-Cascadia has become one of the Pacific Northwest’s most notorious races. This past August, the Back Country Horsemen of Washington joined the Trans-Cascadia team—a first for all involved.
How a father and son found a way to climb one of Utah's most sought-after ice routes in a bygone era.
Feature: An intimate canoe trip through The Boundary Waters with Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.
While Australia burns, its government is greenlighting oil drilling in the unspoiled Great Australian Bight. But surfers and coastal communities are saying no—and uniting to keep Big Oil out.
Listen to the story Sometimes when I look at the Fitz Roy Range, I see a silhouetted jawline of mountainous teeth that gnash the sky. Other times, the teeth transform to fingers that don’t crush aspirations but cradle them, like a hand cupping something precious. The distinction really depends on whether I’m looking at the…
Predawn on April 4, 2019. There’s hardly any snow in the mountains. Worst year in recent history, the locals are saying. We’re loading boxes of food onto the ferry, preparing to board the Alaska Marine Highway from Juneau to Haines. “It’s southeast Alaska, you never know,” Ryland Bell says. “It might rain for 90 days…
A mining company owns the mineral rights to a Colorado mountain. For 42 years, the Red Ladies have been showing up—and dressing up—to keep the mountain wild.
Former Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen battles the destruction of wild places he served to protect.
In the 1980s, a group of cyclists in Washington banded together to protect their local trails from illicit activities; 30 years later, that momentum has reshaped the city and preserved a watershed.
Snow and icy rime break from the porous black volcanic ridgeline crackling beneath my feet. Gale-force updrafts from the gullied ridges below whip the skis and splitboards strapped to our backs. Each gust forces us to step toward the cornice that hangs above the caldera to our right. The temperature drops steadily and our breath…
Lessons from Yosemite’s first climbing guidebook “I have this idea,” Mikey texted last October. “Let’s climb all of the suggested routes from the Yosemite red-cover guidebook.” I agreed immediately. The tattered copy of A Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Valley arrived in the mail less than a week later. First published in 1964 by the Sierra Club,…
The patchwork history of public lands that transformed the area around a small New Mexico town into a world-class bouldering area We left the Mills Canyon Rim Campground, where we’d been living for three cold January weeks, just before dawn on our last morning in New Mexico. I pulled over to the north side of…
On an incredibly clear, early autumn morning, the aging Yosemite Search and Rescue (YOSAR) van bumped along Tioga Pass Road, taking precariously tight turns at an alarming speed. Twelve of us were crammed in the back, chattering and bracing ourselves against the van’s interior walls. When the road was no longer passable for vehicles, we…
Sampling the Offerings at Crater Lake “Go for Dirksen…” There was considerable static on my little two-way radio, but it was a small miracle we could hear Josh Dirksen at all. We hadn’t seen him since a dinner rendezvous two days prior in Bend. An agreed-upon radio channel and call time had actually worked, as…
He’s on a mission to be the best climber in the world.
In a nation known for its massive resource extraction, salmon farming is now bigger than all of Chile’s industries except copper mining.
“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.” —William Ruckelshaus, first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency A coho salmon the size of my pinky drifts quietly in the shade. It’s hardly distinguishable from the sand below. But Marie-France Roy, a professional snowboarder who does volunteer habitat- enhancement work in her hometown…
In a fossil-rich corner of western Colorado, set against lush agricultural fields, the big-box stores of Grand Junction and the sandstone formations of the Colorado National Monument, you’ll find Fruita. These days, the town is an international mountain-biking destination known for its ribbony, high-desert trails, technical routes overlooking the Colorado River and funky downtown where…
Krissy Moehl reports from the 2019 inaugural takayna ultramarathon “There are no footprints.” Fellow Patagonia ambassador and New Zealand native Grant Guise voiced what I was thinking. Our headlamps and phone lights dimly illuminated the overgrown double-track from Rebecca Road. “If 100 people are starting a race in five minutes, we would see footprints,” he…
At Fletcher Chouinard Designs, the focus is on durable, high-performing equipment that lets you have fun no matter what the ocean is doing. There are never enough hours in a day for Fletcher Chouinard. As a surfer, shaper, kiteboarder and new father, he was really doing the dance. Then along came foilboarding, which has made…
The Best Times Are About Friends, Not Perfection It had been four years since Liz Clark, Léa Brassy and I first spent time together, on a sailing trip through the Tuamotus. We knew we’d found something special from the moment we met, and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. We’re all very individual women and…
Fog from the distant Caspian Sea swirled around us as we left the road, crossed a narrow mountain stream on a rickety footbridge of wornwooden planks, passed a pungent corral full of dank, scruffy sheep, and started the steep climb to Alam Kuh base camp in the Alborz mountain range of Iran. Brittany Griffith, Kate…
On the west face of Mount Whitney, just off the summit of the highest peak in the lower 48, we had to traverse right. For us skiers it was no real issue, a bit of sidestepping and poling would do the trick. Yet, our group was comprised of both two sticks and singular planks, and…
Friday night at the Hot Tomato is not for those in a hurry. Hungry customers grip pints of beer and compare notes on the day’s rides in lines that spill into the parking lot. Music pumps and the staff whirls behind the counter, tossing floury dough, yelling requests to the kitchen, giving each other shit.…
The Trump administration wants to open almost all of America’s coastline to the oil industry, putting our beaches and oceans at serious risk. Fifty years ago, an offshore rig spilled 100,000 barrels of crude oil into California’s Santa Barbara Channel, creating a 35-mile slick that fouled the wave-rich shoreline from Goleta to Ventura. It should…
Steve House joins forces with coach Scott Johnston and athlete Kílian Jornet to develop a comprehensive approach to finding the joy and the payoff of intense training. Even lunges.
Patagonia is thrilled to publish Steve House and Scott Johnston’s second training book, Training for the Uphill Athlete, for which they teamed up with world-class endurance athlete Kílian Jornet. This is an excerpt from the book, now available in Patagonia stores, on Patagonia.com, and at your favorite bookstore or online distributor. I race a lot:…
It was November 1991. I was with two friends and we were at the beginning of a three-month surf trip around the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Mundaka was our starting point. We all agreed that we would be happy just to get something better than the cold, windblown beach breaks we had left behind…
For the slo-mo, bug-bitten, exhausted joy of really long runs. Time expands and compresses on long runs. Moments of navigation or extended discomfort can seem endless, while the landscape sifts by like a slow-moving picture. And then suddenly it’s been hours that slipped by without you noticing, except for the subtle changes in light and…
When you lose your trout stream to climate change, where do you go to find yourself? It was late September and the creek ran clear and low out of the West Elks in southwestern Colorado. My favorite time of year: Through the V of the ravine upstream I could see the shoulders of Mount Gunnison…
