Trail Running Stories
One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.
One runner’s attempt to link his hometown skyline becomes something much greater.
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.
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.
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.
El campamento Footprints Running Camp no solo se trata de correr, sino también de encontrar soluciones para la crisis climática.
A runner explores what it takes to find quiet in the world, and in our minds.
Reflections on the 2022 Oak Flat Prayer Run, a gathering and a protest of a planned copper mine that could destroy this sacred site.
Lydia Jennings honors Indigenous scientists of the past, present and future.
Un intento de establecer el menor tiempo conocido para los 296 kilómetros del sendero hacia la fuente del río Támesis.
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.
How the trails beneath our feet help us belong.
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.
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.
Ahí donde termina un camino de tierra es donde comienza un nuevo desafío, una lucha por la protección del Yosemite de Sudamérica.
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.
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.
El FKT de Luke Nelson en el Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup.
Explorando a pie las tierras públicas de Sudamérica.
Zumbando a través de la Sierra High Route.
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…
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:…
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…