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

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.

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.

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.

A family explores their relationship to running.

One family sets the pace at a historic refuge near Chamonix, France.

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.

Friendship among the whitebark.

Elder Wilson Wewa tells the creation story of Animal Village. Tara Kerzhner and Len Necefer consider how these stories can reshape stewardship.

An ode to Raúl Revilla Quiroz, one of the fathers of Mexican rock climbing.

A conversation between Lor Sabourin and Madaleine Sorkin.

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?