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Learning how to fix a lost or loose button is an easy way to keep your gear in play.
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.
Learn how protective UPF clothing can help keep the sun’s harmful rays at bay.
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.
Wool’s natural ability to control odor means you don’t need to wash it as often as you think. When it’s time, follow these tips to keep your merino-blend clothes clean.
When everyday wear and tear takes a toll on well-loved garments, fabric pilling can happen. Learn how to remove pilling from clothes so you can keep them in play.
A take on the classic tuna melt, this recipe uses mackerel instead, which is a mild, surprisingly meaty little fish.
This recipe for Mussel Salad with Fennel, Chickpeas, and Dill Vinaigrette makes a main-course salad that is full of protein.
Kernza® is a perennial grain that can help restore damaged soil and protect groundwater from nitrogen pollution.
Anchovies and sardines are small fish with big flavor. They’re perishable so usually found canned, and those cans often sit next to each other at the store.
Smoked salmon may be best known as a bagel topping, but it can do more. Here are some of our favorite ways to serve smoked salmon—for breakfast and beyond.
We harvest jack mackerel off the coast of Chile. This fishery was once overfished but 10 countries cooperated and stocks recovered to healthy levels.
How down fill ratings work and how they can help you choose the right product for your needs.
Patagonia Provisions is a step toward a new kind of future; one filled with flavorful, nutritious foods that help to restore, rather than deplete, our planet.
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.
After decades of obscurity and neglect, the gut has become a subject of intense interest not only for scientists and physicians, but also for the public.
Our gut microbiome is key to our overall health. These 11 tips for a healthy gut microbiome include diversifying your diet and eating organic foods.
Tips and tricks for getting out on the trails when the going gets messy.
To save time, our White Anchovy Pizza recipe calls for premade dough and sauce. We suggest adding anchovies before baking to help blend all the flavors.
If you’re eating gluten-free, save this list for fresh ideas when grocery shopping or deciding what to have for dinner.
Wild Idea Buffalo takes a holistic approach to raising bison, one that prioritizes the health of both the animals and our planet.
Paige Alms, Moona Whyte and Kyle Thiermann travel into northern territory to put a slew of our cold-water surf gear to the test.
Regenerative organic farming goes beyond sustainable. It steadily improves the health of the earth and everything that lives on it, including us.
Why Beer? Well, for starters, we really love good beer. And beer is, after all, an agricultural product.
Our nutritious anchovies and sardines support communities of small, family-run businesses.
We believe regenerative organic agriculture can redefine the way we grow and consume food.
We spoke with fired public lands employees before they were reinstated. Here are their stories.
Sardine Niçoise Salad is a protein-packed dish that’s light but satisfying and just-right for summer lunch.
Our White Anchovy and Citrus Salad has a lemony mustard vinaigrette made with the oil from the anchovies. There are chopped almonds on top for extra protein.
Why is Patagonia making and selling food? The real question is how could we not?
Mussels are impressive but often overlooked nuggets of nutrition, packed with protein, vitamins and minerals. Let’s look at their health benefits.
In addition to their tastiness, all types of kelp have many health benefits thanks to their naturally occurring vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
One runner’s attempt to link his hometown skyline becomes something much greater.
Obsession, struggle, endurance: facing demons of the past and finding redemption on the trail.
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.
The best and worst foods to eat for an optimum gut-health diet.
How Tommy Caldwell is reshaping his love for rock climbing by building relationships with Indigenous stewards of Bears Ears.
Made with Patagonia Provisions® Smoked Wild Pink Salmon, cream cheese and green onions, this dip is thick so serve it with a knife for spreading.
Our pink salmon comes from wild, self-sustaining runs off Lummi Island, Washington—no farms or hatchery stocks.
For routes like Crown Royale, a lot of what goes into putting them up is falling down.
This chowder recipe requires some chopping and whisking and uses Patagonia Provisions® Smoked Mussels to add a light, smoky flavor to the worthy soup.
Sardines are powerhouses of nutrition. Protein, omega-3s, calcium and iron—sardines are tasty and convenient sources of these and other vitamins and minerals.
Smoked salmon is fresh salmon that’s been cured with salt and smoke. It can benefit your health in many ways and is full of protein, omega-3s and vitamins.
The favored sauce of Argentina and Uruguay, chimichurri was popularized by hardworking gauchos who needed a flavor boost for their staple food, grilled meat.
Simple ingredients like parsley, lemon, garlic and toasted breadcrumbs make our White Anchovy Linguine recipe easy yet full of flavor.
The sauce for our Spicy Anchovy Sandwiches is made both tangy and spicy by mixing the anchovy brine with pomegranate molasses, garlic and chili flakes.
A simple recipe made with fusilli pasta and wild sardines cooked in tomato sauce. The breadcrumbs toasted in olive oil add crunch and additional flavor.
Cultivated off the coasts of Chile, Portugal and Spain, our mussels can naturally improve the quality of the water around them as they grow.
Linguiça sausage adds spiciness to this hearty one-pot stew of beans, potatoes, and Patagonia Provisions® Smoked Mussels.
Inside the efforts to protect Chile’s Cochamó Valley from developers and overtourism.
Crackers with the right toppings make great food for the trail, since they’re small, light and packable.
We’re committed to using wheat grown with regenerative organic practices that build topsoil and restore biodiversity.
We use responsibly sourced ingredients. The more we dig into the world of food, the more we discover that some of the best ways are the old ways.
In Trump’s second term, environmental lawyers are getting more strategic—and assertive.
This dish is inspired by one of Yvon Chouinard’s recipes and uses our Lemon Herb Mussels. It’s best when tomatoes and basil are in season.
Foods high in omega-3s also happen to be delicious. Rich, flavorful fatty fish rank at the top of the list, but omega-3 foods include plants, too.
Made for the trail, this recipe uses Patagonia Provisions® mackerel, mussels, sardines or anchovies, along with sharp cheddar cheese and jalapeños on toast.
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.
Anchovies are rich in protein, omega-3s and iron; canned anchovies are as packed with nutrition as they are with flavor.
Changing perceptions is hard. Changing people’s spending habits is even harder—particularly when it comes to a product as popular and personal as beer.
Tin Fish Date Night is not only an opportunity to connect over a unique activity, it’s also a full meal.
How an ancient practice can restore soil health.
“Non-GMO Project Verified” pops up on food labels everywhere. Here’s what it means.
As temperatures rise in Phoenix, Arizona, mountain bikers are going nocturnal to escape the heat.
Wild trout populations in Southwest Montana have collapsed. Save Wild Trout says enough is enough.
I’ve been angry at politicians for as long as I’ve been an activist. Here’s why I still vote.
The biggest strides in hempcrete construction are going down on one of the smallest Native American reservations.
Will you vote for climate action this November or wait until your own life is at risk?
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.
The first-place essay from a youth writing competition we hosted with the nonprofit Write the World.
In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.
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.
Introducing Home Planet Fund, an independent nonprofit that supports local and Indigenous communities who work in concert with nature to stop climate breakdown.
Simplicity, style and lessons in bike jazz on Eastern Washington’s Beacon Hill.
A family in Maine reimagines a future for working waterfronts that puts back more than it takes.
Louisiana community organizer Roishetta Ozane on her fight to stop the biggest fossil fuel expansion on earth and how mutual aid can play a part.
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.
In Northeastern Washington, a lone range rider is proving that wolves and ranchers can coexist.
How one young family took on 1,300 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy.)
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.
Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.
Saving South Korea’s forgotten underwater forests isn’t just a commitment. For Mr. Ji, it’s a calling.
Ramón Navarro joins the Kawésqar community on a journey to protect their ancestral waters in Chilean Patagonia.
An excerpt from Steven Hawley’s book about dirty dams—and their methane problem.
Lost and in search of purpose, one man turns to bikes as his vehicle to overcome.
Hard alpinism in the Cordillera Huayhuash endures as the climate changes the routes.
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
The craft of building Chumash canoes was nearly lost. Alan Salazar is helping to keep it alive, one tomol at a time.
Even when the demands of a protest are not met, it can have lasting, immeasurable consequences.
These women were forced to flee their homes in Afghanistan. Now the climbing community is helping them build a new one.
Perfluorinated chemicals, or PFAS, made for great waterproofing but are also a lasting, pervasive threat to our health. That’s why we spent nearly 15 years finding a way to make our gear without them that didn't compromise performance. For Spring 2025 and beyond, all our new styles are made without intentionally added PFAS.
Albania’s untamed Vjosa River introduces a new model for global water conservation.
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
Photographic time travel with longtime Patagonia contributor Gary Bigham.
An excerpt from Patagonia’s republished version of A Forest Journey, about what the loss of trees has meant for past life on our planet.
Scenes from ground zero of the greatest surf event in seven years.
TM Herbert helped put up the first ascent of the Muir Wall in 1965. His son followed in his footsteps 55 years later.
What can we learn from nature when we pause to look and listen? In this episode, writer and American Sign Language interpreter Justin Maurer shares how being an interpreter for his deaf mom led to forming a punk band, presenting at the Oscars and seeking out one of the quietest places in the world. We also interview Nancy Bockino, a forest ecologist and avalanche professional, who is working to restore an entire ecosystem by saving the whitebark pine. At the Patagonia Archives, longtime Patagonia employees explain how Yvon Chouinard’s worn-out Craghopper Shorts became the seed for Patagonia clothing. Tune in for a new episode of Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more, watch “Silence Isn’t Silent” and read “One for the Grove.”
Descending through Colombia’s coffee country, a crew of mountain bikers explores how climate change is impacting one of the world’s most cherished beverages and the lives of those who depend upon it.
A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.
Collaboration is central to the natural world—in more ways than we might imagine. By studying interactions between plants, animals and insects, we can emulate those connections to build our own systems of community knowledge. Join us for Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts. For more on these stories, read "Sweet in Tooth and Claw" and read "The Klabona Keepers".
The natural world contains wonders and wisdom that should be accessible to everyone. But what barriers prevent us from acquiring that knowledge? In this episode, we speak with Kiko and Kyra Sweeney from the story “Running the Coast” about why their family emphasized running despite disability. Then we turn to a conversation with reporter Sofía Arredondo about the legendary Mexican climber Raúl Revilla Quiroz, and his impact upon the future generations of climbers. These are stories of people who are claiming their access to outdoor spaces and working to make them more accessible for all. Join us for Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts. For more on these stories, read “Running the Coast” and watch “The Maestro.”
In Southeast Alaska, a Native skier searches for something deeper than powder on her homelands.
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.
We turn to art to experience the universal truths of being human, to express the feelings within us, and to better understand our world. This week, Kentucky musicians The Local Honeys help us understand Appalachian coal country and the miners there who are seeking a new way of living. We’ll also hear Cameron Keller Scott speak about his poem “A River’s Own Name” and how he hopes to deepen people’s experience of the natural world through poetry.
As we prepare for an uncertain future, what do we need to know to establish a deeper connection to the landscape and our communities? In this episode, we hear how Cheyenne River Sioux member Christopher White Eagle reconnected Native kids to their heritage by recruiting them to participate in a traditional buffalo hunt on the plains of South Dakota. We also hear from reporter Joel Caldwell as he visits Ecosystem Restoration Camps in California to learn about the movement of people working to rewild degraded landscapes. Join us for Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts. For more on these stories, read “Restoring Paradise” and watch “The Hunt.”
Which lessons passed down through generations help us feel at home, both mentally and physically, in our natural environments? In this episode, we explore the power of mentorship through our conversation with queer climbers Lor Sabourin and Madaleine Sorkin. We also hear from three generations of women from the Salish Sea who are fighting against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion to help save Southern Resident orcas. Join us for Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts. For more on these stories, read “Queering Climb Mentorship” and watch “We Are the Water.”
Gerry Lopez recalls surfing O‘ahu’s Waimea Bay for the biggest contest purse ever offered (at the time), circa 1974.
An Indigenous community’s 15-year struggle to successfully protect their Sacred Headwaters from industrial development.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
An interview with Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.
A road trip through California’s worst drought in 1,200 years, and the folks working to restore broken ecosystems and rewild lost landscapes.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
In Warren County, North Carolina, a Black farmer is growing industrial hemp to help his century-old farm thrive for at least another 100 years.
Indigenous people once shared a deep bond with the Plains bison. To revive that connection, a Cheyenne River Sioux community leader is leading by example and teaching his knowledge to others.
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…
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
A runner explores what it takes to find quiet in the world, and in our minds.
Many have been taught that nature is inherently competitive. But Kristin Ohlson's new book describes a different natural order—one of generosity.
How one trail runner embodies his Inca heritage by running Peru’s sacred, ancient trails.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
In Southeast Alaska, tribal leaders and local entrepreneurs are helping shape a kelp industry that prioritizes Indigenous values, regenerative practices and a commitment to Alaska Native shareholders.
Elder Wilson Wewa tells the creation story of Animal Village. Tara Kerzhner and Len Necefer consider how these stories can reshape stewardship.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
There’s more to life than three-to-the-beach, surf contest results and a clean cutback.
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?
Francisco “Pacho” Gangotena and his wife opted to challenge the way farming was done in their region and are instead going back to the roots of ancient agriculture.
An exchange of waves and Indigenous cultural practices on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Delusional optimism and alpine immersion in British Columbia’s South Chilcotin Mountains.
Reflections on the 2022 Oak Flat Prayer Run, a gathering and a protest of a planned copper mine that could destroy this sacred site.
Five years after Hurricane Maria, coastal land in Puerto Rico is being sold and developed at a dizzying pace. Puerto Ricans are taking the conservation fight into their own hands.
Grappling with her aging trail dog’s declining health, a mountain biker decides to give her furry best friend one last dose of singletrack.
On an intergenerational new routing trip in the Sierra, Tad McCrea asks, What if your best adventure is the one you’re already on?
The supreme court’s least-bad, bad ruling on climate, and some options President Biden still has.
In learning her ancestral language, one mountain biker finds a different way to relate to the world, herself and her community—and ride her bike.
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.
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.
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Unable to travel overseas due to the ongoing pandemic, Katsutaka "Jumbo" Yokoyama and Keita Kurakami headed for the pristine climbing walls of Yakushima.
This story was supposed to be about a thriving, women-led organic farm in Maine. Then came news of the ”forever chemicals.”
A band of mountain friends learns that when they give attention to what they see, trust and confidence can follow graciously.
The remarkable relationship between Hidetoshi Matsubara and his birds of prey.
You’re never too old to send. A film about bikes and one bad-ass mother hucker.
As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.
After nearly 30 years on the hallowed trails of southern British Columbia, Betty Birrell still thinks life is one big playground—and that you’re never too old to send.
Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade. Some tradeswomen are changing the narrative, one dovetail joint at a time.
Tiny but mighty, herring might be the most important fish in the ocean.
Folkeaksjonen is taking action against petroleum exploration in the Norwegian Sea.
“I want us to be carpenters. I want us to be timber framers. I don’t want us to be women who frame.” —Jenna Pollard
When your goal is to raise children in wild places, it helps if you’re flexible.
Harmonizing with invisible organisms, and other Japanese brewing wisdom.
A Bosnian war refugee’s journey to a lifetime of community activism.
Martin Johnson embarks on his most challenging run, as he explores the connection between Black British history and the River Thames.
An attempt to set the fastest known time on the 184-mile path to the source of the River Thames.
When they urged climbers to stop using their best-selling product in 1972, Tom Frost and Yvon Chouinard laid the foundation for Patagonia’s work today.
Shawn Hayes leads a life of devotion. For him, falconry is more than a deep partnership with raptors: it’s his life’s work.
Fifty years ago, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost and Doug Robinson set down an ethic for climbing that emphasized restraint and respect for the rock. In 2022, it’s needed more than ever.
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.
Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.
Was It Worth It? captures the essence of a life committed to the wild and challenges readers to make certain that their answer to this universal question is yes.
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.
First-generation Vietnamese American Mai Nguyen follows in the footsteps of their agrarian ancestors with a farm that grows numerous types of grains with a no-till, anti-fertilizer regenerative approach.
The story of Naelyn Pike, a 21-year-old Chiricahua Apache, and her fight to keep sacred Apache land from becoming a copper mine.
Cydney Knapp and her husband, Bartek, knew they wanted to raise their kids to love the outdoors, so they learned how to navigate change and embraced the chaos.
Reciprocal learning while exploring traditional Indigenous territories in British Columbia.
In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.
Niseko’s Akio Shinya on avalanches,kayak expeditions and rules to live by.
Under the gaze of southern Arizona’s cinnamon-hued Canelo Hills, a mother passes along an ancient Puebloan tradition of natural adobe building to her three sons.
The case for readopting Indigenous fire management practices.
Ohio’s burning river made headlines in 1969. Now, the Cuyahoga’s telling a new story.
How a mother’s own childhood experience on the Appalachian Trail shaped the way she teaches her four children to find nature in the heart of New York City.
Lydia Jennings honors Indigenous scientists of the past, present and future.
An Italian town began emptying out, so its inhabitants turned to renewable energy to save it.
Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave surfing more dangerous?
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
Follow Lor Sabourin into the sandstone canyons of northern Arizona as they piece together five of the hardest pitches of their climbing career and a climbing community where everyone can thrive as their authentic self.
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.
The Big Muddy is polluted. Securing the Driftless Area can help clean it.
The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.
What’s the secret to a really good pair of jeans? Comics journalist Sarah Mirk tells us what to look for and how to keep them in play longer.
Trail runner and activist Felipe Cancino takes us on a 120 km run through the Maipo River Valley—revealing along the way the impacts of the Alto Maipo hydropower project on the local ecosystem, its communities and traditions; and the threat it poses to the water supply of Santiago’s 7.1 million residents.
This marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico is one of many biodiversity hotspots in the US that need more federal protection.
An excerpt from Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry.
When it comes to making more responsible jeans, our work is never done. And, of course, we leave the really dirty work to you.
The father and son team behind Life Do Grow farm has focused their life’s work on building a sense of community and well-being in an area that has been plagued by poverty, violence and neglect for decades.
Tapping into the beginner’s mind while teaching his daughter to surf.
An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.
In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.
Exploring one of the least visited but most revisited national parks, on foot.
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
As the old-growth logging crisis heats up in Canada, a photographer goes searching for trees to save them.
Building positivity, inspiration and purpose out of a racist encounter in Los Angeles.
Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.
How can an organic farmer with no successor make sure the farm will end up in good hands? Paul Bickford started his search in an unexpected place.
Finding ways to grow food and sow hope in a small apartment in Chicago.
Tough and uncertain, organic cotton farming accounts for less than 1 percent of US cotton production. For this family, that’s why it’s a calling.
Ashe and Christin Brown are parents to their 3-year-old daughter, Quest, whom they want to raise with an appreciation for the diversity of the natural world.
Caroline Gleich grapples with the fears that come with an aging parent and the pressure she feels to have a child before her dad is gone.
Nearly every Wednesday, Courtney Reynolds can be found elbow-deep in a bin of someone else’s castoffs, searching for scraps of fabric and colorful quilts to deconstruct and sew into original clothing items for her three preschool-age kids, or to sell in her online shop, Napkin Apocalypse.
This Great Lakes surfer never felt represented in the surf scene, so she created a new surf culture of her own.
We’re entering Earth’s sixth mass extinction, but clues about this climate crisis could be right under our feet.
A book excerpt about how the microbes within us and the genes we share with other wild creatures are key dimensions of being human.
How can Hispanic farmworkers become farm owners? For Mexican immigrant Javier Zamora, the sunup to sundown work ethic was already there—he just needed some support from his community.
One young couple’s unexpected career path of farming sea vegetables drew them back to their roots and brought a promising climate-change solution to their coastal hometown.
As the proprietor of Cold Antler Farm, a 6.5-acre span of land in Washington County, New York, Jenna Woginrich spends her days with red-tailed hawks.
Seasoned waterman, master woodworker and Patagonia Surf Ambassador Ben Wilkinson channels his skills toward a new environmental calling.
Only 4 percent of US farm owners are Hispanic. Mexican immigrant and organic farmer Javier Zamora is working to change the narrative.
Rule changes and the future of the Olympic Peninsula’s wild steelhead.
John Murray’s lifelong work to permanently protect the Badger-Two Medicine from oil and gas drilling.
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.
The next nine years will be a time of resilience, rebuilding and reinvention.
The story of our switch to organic cotton starts with a bout of headaches and a trip to the lunar landscape of the San Joaquin Valley’s conventional cotton fields.
How a nonprofit that takes San Francisco kids surfing expanded its work in 2020.
In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, two farmers are growing industrial hemp to improve their topsoil—and their bottom line—as they face worsening drought.
In Colorado’s San Luis Valley, worsening drought is causing farmers to face the prospect of losing their livelihoods. Two farmers are placing their bets on a drought-tolerant crop—industrial hemp.
Sheep (and their poop) could help California’s climate-driven wildfires. One couple is ushering in this idea with a small flock and some supportive fire departments.
Patagonia’s journey toward zero waste and reduced carbon emissions, failed experiments included.
Ten years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese communities are turning toward citizen-led renewable power.
Coauthor Kim McCoy recounts discovering the mystery of what lies beneath the waves, where ocean and land meet and compete.
Following in Indigenous footsteps on the Ute Pass Trail.
The ups and downs of transitioning power to the people in the Chamonix Valley.
Two women, Black and Indigenous, reflect on the myth of the American West after horse-packing through the Sierra.
A wildlife biologist uncovers an unexpected, intersectional legacy of slavery.
A look into surfing’s impact vests and the people they’ve brought back home.
The mountain-biking star of Becoming Ruby seeks out some of skiing's most powerful females.
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.
In one of the last interviews he gave before he passed away, the writer and conservationist shares his reflections on the past, and the work still to do.
Nicholas Herrera brings new life to old things on his ancestral homestead in El Rito, New Mexico.
Climate and social justice activists are pushing the clothing industry to take better care of people and the planet.
As a repaired shirt becomes more of an original, it still takes the author back.
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.
On a small farm outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a farmer takes a regenerative approach to keeping his community fed.
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.
A wildlife ecologist reflects on the public lands that are his escape hatch and life’s work.
Photographer Paolo Pellegrin captured the aftermath of the wildfires that burned through Australia in 2019.
A dead-end dirt road is the start to a new challenge—and a fight to protect South America’s Yosemite.
Solving for Z explores IFMGA guide and father Zahan Billimoria’s relationship to the intoxicating highs and crushing blows of big mountain skiing.
Why we rely on lab tests and data more than ever to make decisions about our products.
The zipper is one of the most elegantly functional features in design. It’s also one of the most frustrating barriers to fully recycled, easily repairable gear.
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.
How Zahan Billimoria recalibrated after unthinkable tragedy.
What was once a nuisance—overselling environmental gains—now conceals the apparel industry’s role in the climate crisis.
One woman’s decades-long fight for clean air and environmental justice.
A Small Florida Town Was Once Host to the World’s Largest Tarpon. What Happened?
Kohl Christensen discusses how BWRAG came to be and his recent near-death experience courtesy of Pipeline's reef.
Why is it so hard to get rid of used clothes in an ethical way?
Patagonia’s quality rating system is designed with ecological footprint in mind. Here’s why.
85% of Patagonia’s polyester this season is recycled. Using recycled polyester, rather than virgin petroleum polyester, reduced our seasonal carbon emissions by over 5,600 metric tons of CO₂e.
Two Patagonia styles this season use bison hide. Grazing bison help restore prairie ecosystems, whereas grazing cattle can damage native grasses.
“Castleton Tower has a pulse. We have a pulse. The Earth has a pulse.”
Eric Bissell captured his first published image with Patagonia on a climbing trip to establish a new route on Mount Ololokwe.
Natasha Woodworth, the designer behind Patagonia’s new backcountry ski touring kits, approaches skiing and technical design with the same understated competence.
Who made the first hammer, the thing that’s used to make other things? For blacksmiths, it starts with the forge—and it’s hammers all the way down.
Observations of unraveling ecosystems from the snow-lovers of Sitka, Alaska.
Climate policy expert Leah Stokes on how fossil fuel interests undermine American climate policy, and what you can do to stop it.
Eighty percent of the down we're using this season is recycled. The new down is Advanced GTDS Certified.
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.
If we continue trying to save the world one species at a time we will fail; it is time to redefine our relationship with nature so that we save all of nature.
Eliza Earle, Austin Siadak, Drew Smith on the 2019 fall climbing season in Yosemite.
A reminder of why voting is essential to the protection of our public lands.
Karen Diver of the Fond du Lac Band on how protecting lands and waters can provide solutions to climate change.
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?
Patagonia has 73 styles using hemp this season. Cultivation of hemp replenishes vital soil nutrients, prevents erosion and requires no synthetic fertilizer.
An eclectic band of Argentine locals cultivates a grassroots backcountry ski community in one of the world’s most unforgiving mountain ranges.
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.
Melinda Daniels is huddled under the shelter of her purple tent waiting for the rain to start, which only seems odd when you consider the context: she’s in the middle of a farm on a blindingly sunny day.
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.
Our public lands have tremendous value above and beyond resource extraction. Here’s why they’re worth protecting.
For a closer look at the dangers a toxic sulfur-ore copper mine poses to the more than 1,000,000 acres of backcountry in the Boundary Waters, please see our accompanying film, “A Northern Light,” (below) Encompassing more than 1,000,000 acres along the US-Canada border, the fresh water, wilderness habitat and sustainable jobs of the Boundary Waters…
BIKE Magazine contributing editor Michael Ferrentino on our perceived right to ride wherever we want.
For three women of color in Wyoming, going into the mountains isn’t about representation—it’s about reclaiming their power, together.
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, ‘What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?’” —Rachel Carson.
A colorful tradition of building and running Grand Canyon dory boats is passed to the next generation.
Returning endangered species to the wetlands of Argentina is good for humans, too.
A climber takes a road trip to Bishop and Las Vegas, and breaks down the narrative of who travels and who climbs.
Meet Annie Reickert, the 18-year-old Maui charger Paige Alms is mentoring in the Jaws lineup and beyond.
Some farmers, anglers and chefs are providing food for their communities during the time of COVID-19.
A photographer learns what it means to be an ally while on assignment on Gwich’in lands.
This is the story of how Bureo locked arms with Patagonia to keep 71,000 pounds of discarded fishing net waste out of the ocean each year by putting it into our hat brims. Introducing the traceable, 100% recycled NetPlus®.
A bikepacking expedition inspired by one of North America’s most iconic landscapes, and the American Prairie Reserve’s audacious effort to restore it.
To save our home planet we must fall in love with it. What’s holding us back?
“This whole process of virtual public hearings during a global crisis is an injustice to my community.”
Last November, Fitz Caldwell (age 6) finished his first multipitch climb, Sunnyside Bench in Yosemite National Park. He did it with his dad, Tommy.
A Sierra trip with good light and only one case of altitude sickness.
Making face masks in the time of COVID-19: when “breathable face fabric” takes on a whole new meaning.
After years of dreaming, Nick Russell and Christian Pondella complete a clean descent on Mount Morrison in the Eastern Sierra.
Young farmers learn what it means to do essential work during a global crisis.
In Coyhaique, Chile, the ghosts of resource extraction may offer a path toward a new recreation-based future.
The fish’s struggle for survival is a fight not only for itself but for the health of the planet. An excerpt from Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate.
Arturo Pugno, a fisherman in the Italian Alps, is the last known practitioner of an ancient style of flyfishing remarkable for its pure simplicity.
Three moms share the details.
Join Kimi Werner on her journey in Lessons from Jeju, where she learns about motherhood, culture, diving and providing from South Korea’s mothers of sea, the haenyeo. “The world doesn’t seem to embrace how badass motherhood is,” says Kimi.
Jasmin Caton worried having twins might slow down her life in the mountains. Then she remembered what her parents did with her.
Kimi Werner takes a journey to Jeju Island for lessons in motherhood, culture, diving and providing from South Korea’s “women of the sea” aka the haenyeo.
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.
Ways you can keep up the fight for our planet, and feel less alone.
A bona fide American hemp farmer and entrepreneur shares his stash—a guide to farming hemp with tips for planting, growing, harvesting and processing.
As the world grapples with the effects of the pandemic, climate activists continue to fight for our future.
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
Donald Sanderson launched the country’s first mandatory curbside recycling program in Woodbury, New Jersey, in 1980. The recycling landscape has since changed. A lot. Is it still worthwhile?
“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.
With oceans getting warmer and more acidic, a group of divers are planting baby corals to restore the dying coral reefs.
Welcoming back the “welcoming noise” near the Arctic Circle.
Southeast Alaskans are on the front line of the fight to protect the Tongass National Forest from logging.
There’s nothing more important than having waves a few minutes away.
Jocelyn Torres of Conservation Lands Foundation on the power of grassroots lobbying and voting for public lands.
Changing our dynamics with the mountains can help us be in them longer, and appreciate them more.
Can a cotton T-shirt really help stop the climate crisis?
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.
In 2019, after a record Colorado avalanche season bulldozed millions of trees, a team of avalanche experts rallied to collect as much information as possible from these 300-year-old keepers of time.
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.
She was searching for a role with a nonprofit that takes a nontraditional approach to nature conservation. She found it in her inbox.
Mustafa Santiago Ali talks with Naomi Hollard of Sunrise Movement about the power of cross-class and multiracial movements and the mandate for environmental justice.
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…
My family arrived in Ohio from Jamaica in the mid-1970s, during a time of environmental turmoil. The previous decade had brought to light significant issues around the treatment of land and water in the United States. The Cuyahoga River, which flows into Lake Erie, caught fire in 1969 due to excessive oil coating its surface.…
Understanding human behaviors that lead to overconsumption, and what we might do to transform them.
A round of applause and a hurrah of thanks for President Donald Trump: he’s finally bringing the Endangered Species Act (ESA) the attention it deserves! Last fall, the president announced a number of administrative “rule changes” to the ESA, changes that may sound trivial, but which attack the intent and letter of the law. Trump,…
The dos and don’ts of visiting Bears Ears National Monument.
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.
Gwich’in youth play an important role in protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
As seen in the November 2019 Journal. For the recipe behind Carston’s Spicy Magic Sauce, scroll to the end of the story. Although my tongue felt as if it might melt, Carston Oliver assured me I was not, in fact, going to die. “That’s just the capsaicin,” he told me, as he calmly ordered some…
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.
It’s fascinating to hear Zaria Forman talk about ice, especially the way that it sounds. She describes the way it rumbles and thunders and cracks, even when you can’t see anything. It crackles and pops like breakfast cereal on high volume. “Ice crispies,” she calls it. “It’s a really beautiful sound.” Polar ice is possibly…
I wake early to the dazzling heat of the African sun. Perched 400 meters high on a huge granite face in central Madagascar, all I can see is black and blue, the color of the Malagasy granite meeting the sky and, coincidentally, the same color as large areas of my body from the constant abuse…
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…
What if we could wear our garbage? That’s the idea behind ReCrafted, our line of clothing made from the scraps of used garments collected at our Worn Wear facility in Reno. It’s premium, Patagonia, upcycled. A second life for products that might not otherwise get one. ReCrafted was created by Kourtney Morgan—the designer behind some…
Hear “climate crisis” and you may picture a skinny polar bear stranded on a fragment of sea ice, bleached coral reefs, burning forests or maybe a world without bees. You’re not wrong: All those things (and more) are sadly unfolding or could be in the coming decades. Even more troubling, however, is that your mental…
Thirteen youth climate activists are taking to the courts to protect the Mississippi River and the people who depend on it for survival. Brent Murcia crosses the lively Mississippi River every day by bridge on his walk to class at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The sunset sometimes paints its gray murky waters a…
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,…
Five hundred miles off the Chilean coast, there’s a small island that carries the name of a famous castaway. It’s a stark place surrounded by thriving seas and powerful surf, and when Léa Brassy, Ramón Navarro and Kohl Christensen traveled there to ride waves, they found themselves challenged by its unruly weather and wind. But they also found that the island…
As we look back on a week of climate actions that mobilized more than 7 million people around the world, those of us who took part are asking ourselves: What next? I ask that question of myself, as a concerned citizen, as a father and as a business leader in my role at Patagonia. Between…
Dispatch from the youth-led Climate Strike, the largest ever climate protest in history.
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…
Downieville, California was once one of the richest towns in the state, but by the mid-1990s it had gone full bust—until a few local mountain bikers’ began using the local trails to breathe new life into the town, turning the former ghost town into a recreation mecca.
Ever since Patagonia had an office (and wasn’t just selling gear out of the back of Yvon’s car), we’ve devoted desk space, our free time and a percentage of our sales to protecting wild nature. From our travels, we knew our land, air and water was in real trouble from short-sighted profiteers. Over the years,…
Thirty years ago this month, I published my first book, The End of Nature, which was also the first book for a general audience about what we then called the greenhouse effect. And my main worry was about … nature. In 1989, global warming was still a theoretical crisis—we were right at the edge of…
Everything you need to know about being a nonviolent climate activist
Why recycled? is a short video that looks at the current global challenges facing the recycling system and why Patagonia is switching to 100% renewable and recycled materials. Through interviews with material designers and industrial ecologists, this film urges us to question our own consumption habits and look at the impact the clothing industry has on people and the planet.
There’s something undeniably cute about kids protesting. They paint their signs—and faces—in primary colors, add some glitter. They smile and laugh as they huddle for selfies. Yet if they seem playful, they’re also serious. The millions of young people who’ve taken to the streets in the last year know that their generation has been dealt…
Jenn Shelton traverses the Sierra High Route.
Klukwan is a village of 90 people in Southeast Alaska that’s home to the Chilkat Indian Village, a federally recognized tribe, on the banks of the Chilkat River 22 miles north of Haines, Alaska. The Chilkat have lived in the Chilkat Valley for over 2,000 years. It’s a land of natural bounty. The braided glacial…
In the last 20 years, the expansion of salmon farming in open-net pens has led to the loss of half the wild salmon population in Norway. On average, 200,000 farmed fish escape from open-net pens and many of them swim up rivers in Norway and breed with wild stocks, contributing to species decline. According to…
He’s on a mission to be the best climber in the world.
If you are interested in exploiting somebody else’s land, you can find convenient ratings tables that tell you the current favorites, ranked by competitive taxes, efficient permitting procedures and certainty around environmental regulations. In other words, if a country has low taxes for the rich, a no-questions-asked permit policy and a generous disregard for the…
She went to Italy to see how recycled wool is made and discovered that everything has an impact, including recycled.
The creation of Bears Ears National Monument was something that seemed more inevitable in the summer of 2016. It seems like now it’s one of those things where you’re on one side or the other because after all, I’m writing this book in the Trump years, and no one is getting along or in the…
In a nation known for its massive resource extraction, salmon farming is now bigger than all of Chile’s industries except copper mining.
“We biked through wind, rain, and snow. If lightning struck, we kept going. We only stopped if it got too close. We outran tornadoes in Oklahoma. We waited out a storm in an old horse barn in Montana, huddled like penguins, our bikes cast carelessly aside in the mud,” writes John Flynn. After John lost…
Editor’s note: This post discusses anxiety and suicide. In a humble workshop in Washougal, Washington, a blind craftsman holds a locally harvested log that he has made into a blank with his miter saw. He turns it in his hands to feel its shape and weight. He measures and marks, measures and marks. A flick…
“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…
Patagonia is no stranger to the difficulty of throwing stuff away. We take back 100 percent of the gear you return for recycling through our Worn Wear program. In 2018, we recycled 6,797 pounds of products. But we can’t recycle or repair everything you send us. Some of it was just too well-loved during use…
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…
Patagonia Designers on the ‘Celebrating Public Lands’ Collection
In our 1990 summer catalog we said, “It’s up to us to make sure that children don’t go tree hungry, that they have wild places and opportunities to be in them. Once they do, they will amaze us with their caring. They need not wait to grow up to be involved; part of becoming a…
As the great Aldo Leopold once said, harmony with the land and with wildlife “is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.” Yet here we are: humankind is now the singular driving force behind the potential extinction of more than one million species, according to the…
How the child in an old road trip photo from the Patagonia catalog is helping humanity understand Mars.
Dave Murray lives in a wooded mountain valley in western Montana with his wife, Connie; a labradoodle rightly named Loki, after the Norse god of mischief; and a bunch of mules. I live 140 miles north near Glacier National Park. He and I met on a float trip down a wild river in northern British…
If your idea of a great summer read is, like a day in the waves, a little escape from it all, this post may not be right for you. Maybe there’s just no escaping the severity of the climate crisis, or maybe we’re just so glad to have time to sit still with any book…
This was the rule of late summer in Montana’s Mission Valley: During the day, the landscape belonged to humans. Tractors worked the fields, and children played carefree in the yards. People swam in shady eddies and picnicked beside the creeks. At night, the bears came out. Stretching in the cooling twilight, the grizzlies left their…
Standing Up Against Industrial Fish Farming That Would Forever Alter A Unique Australian Beachbreak The day we arrived on King Island we drove out to Martha Lavinia Beach, where we stood in the dunes and watched waves running down the beach—long left-handers breaking so fast they were almost impossible to surf. However, Martha Lavinia wasn’t…
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 Vjosa River flows 270 kilometers without barriers from the Pindus Mountains to the Adriatic Sea. It’s one of many rivers in the Balkans that are under threat by a tidal wave of more than 2,800 new hydropower dam projects. In March 2018, Patagonia joined grassroots groups and regional community activists in Save the Blue…
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…
Our home planet has a deeply disturbing and pervasive problem with plastics. In April, a group of researchers studying the deepest part of the ocean—the Mariana Trench—discovered plastic bags and candy wrappers floating nearly seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Globally, about 450 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year and 9.5 million tons of…
Indigenous communities across the United States are increasingly confronted with threats to their sovereignty and to the places they rely on for their culture and way of life. Nowhere is this threat felt more than in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. A new short film, Welcome to Gwichyaa Zhee, looks at the Gwich’in people’s work to protect…
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…
