Running Up For Air is not a race. It’s a community, a gathering of friends and a fundraiser for clean-air advocacy.

All photos by Ken Etzel If you get your nose close enough, ponderosa pine bark smells like vanilla. Or butterscotch, depending on the tree. Washington is famous for its pine trees. It’s portrayed as a land of constant water and ever-present green, which, in mountain biking terms, translates to a land of perfect trails and…

Giving failure a chance in Greenland.

All dams are dirty. Efforts to make them better only make things worse.

Renewing rivers one rodent at a time.

Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.

A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.

How one young family took on 1,300 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. (Hint: There’s candy.)

Do Skagit River salmon have legal rights?

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.

Sometimes releasing the need to summit is what gets you there.

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

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.

The decline of aquatic insects should bug everyone.

Hard alpinism in the Cordillera Huayhuash endures as the climate changes the routes.

For these Afghan women, climbing in Yosemite is a connection to home.

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.

A life full of great climbs with friends.

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.