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How one young family of five took on the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy)

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Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.

narinda heng finds out by taking public transit from Oakland to Yosemite National Park.

A Patagonia advanced R&D designer takes to the Swedish alpine to test out a new pack prototype—and a bold idea for rethinking multiday trail travel.

Josh Wharton knows how to evaluate risk as an alpinist. How does fatherhood change the equation?

In the wake of a devastating wildfire, the communities of California’s Lost Sierra look to trails for hope, healing and a dose of dirt magic.

A trip to Amami Ōshima, Japan, transports Gerry Lopez to a familiar feeling on a distant land.

A conversation with Vincent Stanley, Patagonia’s director of philosophy and co-author of The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years.

A captain’s log from the biggest swell to hitO‘ahu’s outer reefs in recent memory.

Since we first learned of the role we play in the spread of microfiber pollution in 2015, Patagonia has actively searched for partners to help end—or at least seriously curtail—the spread of synthetic fiber waste into the air and water. We’ve long been familiar with the microplastics problem—the breakdown of plastic bottles, yogurt cups and…

Architect and climber Dylan Johnson joins up with Yvon Chouinard and a hardworking crew to construct two houses using straw bales.

Climate and sustainability journalist Yessenia Funes writes to her future child—the one she hopes to have and has been afraid of bringing into our world.

In the male-dominated world of alpinism, Juliana García is leading the way for a new generation of female mountaineers.

Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.

Those with the most to lose are uniting to save the Northwest’s salmon and steelhead.

In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.

When the fish stop flourishing, a few local Scots take matters into their own hands, one seagrass bed at a time.

The decline of aquatic insects should bug everyone.

Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.

Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.

Trying to address the climate crisis without the ocean will not work.

An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.