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Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder

Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder

If we have any hope of a thriving planet—much less a business—it is going to take all of us doing what we can with the resources we have. This is what we can do.

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Cochamó Por Siempre
Cochamó Por Siempre

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.

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Field Report: Josh Wharton on Spider Web Wall
Field Report: Josh Wharton on Spider Web Wall

Exploring the semi-secret "mini-big walls" of the Bighorn Mountains

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What’s Your 5 to 9?
What’s Your 5 to 9?
Jeff McElroy

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.

6 min Read
Simple as a Turn
Simple as a Turn

Dedicated to snowboarding’s elemental act.

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Le Moulin des Artistes
Le Moulin des Artistes

A home for free spirits.

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Alligator Paradise
Alligator Paradise
Brad Wieners

A big win during a perilous season for public lands.

4 min Read
Maté de los Dioses
Maté de los Dioses
Matthew Tufts

A Patagonian ski odyssey.

10 min Read
The First Ascent of Tiger Lily Buttress
The First Ascent of Tiger Lily Buttress
Dane Steadman

Three friends, an avalanche and an iPhone on Yashkuk Sar I.

5 min Read
A surfer walking into the ocean.
A Guide to Wetsuit Thicknesses and Temperatures
Morgan Williamson

Looking for a temperature guide for Patagonia Yulex® Regulator® Wetsuits? Zip up—we’re diving deep.

9 min Read
DIG
DIG

An Alaskan snowboard film.

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This Is It
This Is It
Ryland Bell

A master of big-mountain Alaskan spines finds the line of his life.

3 min Read
The Selkirk Shwack
The Selkirk Shwack
Matthew Tufts

You don’t know until you go.

4 min Read
Ryu-Shin
Ryu-Shin
Meaghen Brown

A tribute to Keita Kurakami.

5 min Read
The Space Between the Snowflakes
The Space Between the Snowflakes
Carston Oliver

Absence and balance in Japan.

7 min Read
“Thick Wetsuits Aren’t So Bad When They Break Your Fall.”
“Thick Wetsuits Aren’t So Bad When They Break Your Fall.”
Kyle Thiermann

Paige Alms, Moona Whyte and Kyle Thiermann travel into northern territory to put a slew of our cold-water surf gear to the test.

9 min Read
The Extinction of Dave Rastovich
The Extinction of Dave Rastovich
Derek Hynd

Or is there a Dave heir, somewhere?

9 min Read
Microbeta
Microbeta
Patagonia

Behind the scenes of our ambassadors' trickiest and most meaningful ascents.

3 min Read
The Pocatello Round
The Pocatello Round
Luke Nelson

One runner’s attempt to link his hometown skyline becomes something much greater.

10 min Read
Parenting: Disaster Style
Parenting: Disaster Style
Patagonia

Education through risk, consequence and building the skills to live simply.

2 min Read
Chunky Moments of Peace
Chunky Moments of Peace
Shaun Price

Two photographers set out on a 10-day road trip in search of connection, community and a whole bunch of singletrack.

5 min Read
Beneath the Rock
Beneath the Rock
Tommy Caldwell

How Tommy Caldwell is reshaping his love for rock climbing by building relationships with Indigenous stewards of Bears Ears.

8 min Read
A Seventh Chance
A Seventh Chance
Pete Whittaker

For routes like Crown Royale, a lot of what goes into putting them up is falling down.

5 min Read
Floating Lines
Floating Lines
Steve Duda

Witnessing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge via packraft.

6 min Read
Cochamó Por Siempre
Cochamó Por Siempre
Daniel Seeliger & Rodrigo Condeza

Inside the efforts to protect Chile’s Cochamó Valley from developers and overtourism.

10 min Read
Chess Not Checkers
Chess Not Checkers
Moona Whyte

Moona Whyte recounts the trials of surfing her dream wave.

3 min Read
Field Notes from a Gear Tester
Field Notes from a Gear Tester
Jenny Abegg

A season of testing in Washington State.

10 min Read
Greg Long’s Last Eddie
Greg Long’s Last Eddie
Beau Flemister

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.

9 min Read
Art of the Skintrack
Art of the Skintrack
Leah Evans

Our stories are written in the tracks we leave.

5 min Read
Riding Out the Storm
Riding Out the Storm
Nico Favresse

How the worst climbing conditions can bring out the best in us.

7 min Read
Papsura
Papsura

Peak of Evil

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Riders of the Night
Riders of the Night
Sakeus Bankson

As temperatures rise in Phoenix, Arizona, mountain bikers are going nocturnal to escape the heat.

11 min Read
Big Sky Bummer
Big Sky Bummer
Daniel Ritz

Wild trout populations in Southwest Montana have collapsed. Save Wild Trout says enough is enough.

7 min Read
Our Power
Our Power
Jane Fonda

I’ve been angry at politicians for as long as I’ve been an activist. Here’s why I still vote.

6 min Read
M10® Alpine Shells
M10® Alpine Shells
MaiLee Hung

Gear that climbers agree on.

4 min Read
The Stories We Wear
The Stories We Wear
Patagonia

Well-loved gear can tell some of the best stories of our lives.

3 min Read
Lāhainā, One Year Later
Lāhainā, One Year Later
Beau Flemister

After a devastating wildfire, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.

13 min Read
In Sequence
In Sequence

For Katie Lamb, bouldering’s not about the grades. It’s about the process.

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Fire Lines
Fire Lines

Can bikes, trails and ancient traditions be the path to a better future?

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Totoganashi
Totoganashi

For surfer Yusei Ikariyama to save his home waters, he’ll have to first unite his community.

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Keeping Pace
Keeping Pace
Lisa Jhung

One runner gets her fix helping others chase their dreams, again and again.

8 min Read
Running Led Me Home
Running Led Me Home
Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada

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.

8 min Read
For the Love of Dirt
For the Love of Dirt
Sakeus Bankson

Simplicity, style and lessons in bike jazz on Eastern Washington’s Beacon Hill.

4 min Read
The Wall as a Mirror
The Wall as a Mirror
Seán Villanueva O’Driscoll

Giving failure a chance in Greenland.

7 min Read
Leave It to Beavers
Leave It to Beavers
Amanda Monthei

Renewing rivers one rodent at a time.

8 min Read
The Wave below the Sleeping Rabbit
The Wave below the Sleeping Rabbit
Kyle Thiermann

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

11 min Read
The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru
The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru
Bruno Monteferri

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

9 min Read
Let’s End Neighborhood Drilling for Good
Let’s End Neighborhood Drilling for Good
Zina Rodriguez

Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.

5 min Read
Breaking Trail for Clean Air
Breaking Trail for Clean Air
Ariella Carpenter

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

7 min Read
Running Up For Air
Running Up For Air

In the face of declining air quality, a community of runners rises up.

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Thrawn
Thrawn

A stubbornly Scottish snow film.

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Alpine Suit
Alpine Suit
MaiLee Hung

The making of a mountain-ready one-piece.

5 min Read
Why Do We Keep Buying New Stuff?
Why Do We Keep Buying New Stuff?
Archana Ram

Our brains tend to like it that way.

11 min Read
A Family of Five on the PCT
A Family of Five on the PCT
Marketa Daley

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

5 min Read
Suing for Survival
Suing for Survival
Jann Eberharter

Do Skagit River salmon have legal rights?

6 min Read
A Matter of Breathing
A Matter of Breathing
Peyton Thomas

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

8 min Read
What’s a Climbing Road Trip Without a Car?
What’s a Climbing Road Trip Without a Car?
narinda heng

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

8 min Read
The Meaningless Pursuit of Snow
The Meaningless Pursuit of Snow

A Backcountry Exploration

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The 150-Mile Test
The 150-Mile Test
Eric Noll

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.

10 min Read
Jirishanca
Jirishanca

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

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No Pressure
No Pressure
Alexa Flower

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

8 min Read
Remember to Breathe
Remember to Breathe
Greg Williams

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.

4 min Read
Living on Easy
Living on Easy
Gerry Lopez

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

7 min Read
What the Hands Do
What the Hands Do

How can climbing shape the world we want to see?

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Tom
Tom

The friend fish deserve.

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Abundance and the January Swell Bender of 2023
Abundance and the January Swell Bender of 2023
Liam Wilmott

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

16 min Read
Her Place in the Mountains
Her Place in the Mountains
Lise Josefsen Hermann

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

8 min Read
If Nothing Changes, Everything Changes
If Nothing Changes, Everything Changes
Daniel Ritz

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

13 min Read
Together as One
Together as One
Ryan Stuart

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

11 min Read
Dude, Where’s My Hatch?
Dude, Where’s My Hatch?
Stephen Sautner

The decline of aquatic insects should bug everyone.

10 min Read
Jirishanca
Jirishanca
Josh Wharton

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

4 min Read
Monte
Monte

Can’t stop. Won’t stop.

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Ascend
Ascend

These women were forced to flee their homes in Afghanistan. Now the climbing community is helping them build a new one.

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Afarin! Good Job!
Afarin! Good Job!
Lauren DeLaunay Miller

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

14 min Read
Run for Something
Run for Something
Meaghen Brown

Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.

7 min Read
The Old-Fashioned Way
The Old-Fashioned Way
Layla Kerley

Photographic time travel with longtime Patagonia contributor Gary Bigham.

5 min Read
Five Horses Deep
Five Horses Deep

A hoof-and-human-powered ski film from Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Remembering Allen Steck
Remembering Allen Steck
Patagonia

A life full of great climbs with friends.

8 min Read
A Hog of a Swell Greets the Eddie
A Hog of a Swell Greets the Eddie
Morgan Williamson

Scenes from ground zero of the greatest surf event in seven years.

9 min Read
Legacy on the Muir
Legacy on the Muir
Max Buschini

TM Herbert helped put up the first ascent of the Muir Wall in 1965. His son followed in his footsteps 55 years later.

2 min Read
Foam Dust – 25 Years of FCD
Foam Dust – 25 Years of FCD

The indefinite history of FCD Surfboards. 

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Over-Roasted
Over-Roasted
Lucas Isakowitz

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.

16 min Read
Taking the Long Way Home
Taking the Long Way Home
Ellen Bradley & Matthew Tufts

In Southeast Alaska, a Native skier searches for something deeper than powder on her homelands.

9 min Read
Land of the Midnight Surf
Land of the Midnight Surf
Morgan Williamson

Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.

14 min Read
Running the Coast
Running the Coast
Kiko Sweeney

A family explores their relationship to running.

6 min Read
The Charpoua Way
The Charpoua Way
Floran Tomei

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

5 min Read
A River’s Own Name
A River’s Own Name
Cameron Keller Scott

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…

8 min Read
In Search of Silence
In Search of Silence
Monica Prelle

A runner explores what it takes to find quiet in the world, and in our minds.

6 min Read
One for the Grove
One for the Grove
Colin Wann

Friendship among the whitebark.

5 min Read
The Physics of Noseriding
The Physics of Noseriding

The science of surfing’s fluid dance.

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Smith Rock Is Animal Village
Smith Rock Is Animal Village
Len Necefer & Tara Kerzhner

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

15 min Read
The Maestro
The Maestro
Sofía Arredondo

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

10 min Read
Episode 2: A Climate of Optimism
Episode 2: A Climate of Optimism

Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.

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Queering Climb Mentorship
Queering Climb Mentorship
Lor Sabourin & Madaleine Sorkin

A conversation between Lor Sabourin and Madaleine Sorkin.

13 min Read
Not Just Good Surfers, Good People
Not Just Good Surfers, Good People
Cash Lambert

There’s more to life than three-to-the-beach, surf contest results and a clean cutback.

6 min Read
Chasing Charlie
Chasing Charlie
Kennan Harvey

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?

8 min Read
The Scale of Hope
The Scale of Hope

Molly Kawahata on climate, climbing and the fight for systemic change.

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Point Break Medicine
Point Break Medicine
Todd Prodanovich

An exchange of waves and Indigenous cultural practices on the Pacific coast of Mexico.

9 min Read
Ultralight Foolishness
Ultralight Foolishness
Will Cadham

Delusional optimism and alpine immersion in British Columbia’s South Chilcotin Mountains.

9 min Read
Prayer Run for Oak Flat
Prayer Run for Oak Flat
Brophy Native American Club

Reflections on the 2022 Oak Flat Prayer Run, a gathering and a protest of a planned copper mine that could destroy this sacred site.

9 min Read
Roscoe’s Last Ride
Roscoe’s Last Ride
Lacy Kemp

Grappling with her aging trail dog’s declining health, a mountain biker decides to give her furry best friend one last dose of singletrack.

7 min Read
Too Far, Too High
Too Far, Too High
Tad McCrea

On an intergenerational new routing trip in the Sierra, Tad McCrea asks, What if your best adventure is the one you’re already on?

7 min Read
In Relation to All Things
In Relation to All Things
Alexandera Houchin

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.

6 min Read
Water Is Common Ground
Water Is Common Ground
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate

Building community deep in the heart of Texas.

12 min Read
Tribal Waters
Tribal Waters

When the river means everything, nothing will stand in your way.

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Cow Skull Hill
Cow Skull Hill
Erin Spaulding

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.

10 min Read
The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez
The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez

The path to enlightenment begins at the world’s deadliest wave.

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Return from That Other Place
Return from That Other Place
Ben Herndon

Paddling Salish and Nimiipuu home waters, once again.

12 min Read
The Art of Letting Go
The Art of Letting Go
Steve Schmidt

Updating catch and release.

7 min Read
Running Out of North
Running Out of North
Dylan Tomine

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.

4 min Read
Being Home
Being Home
Emilé Zynobia

A band of mountain friends learns that when they give attention to what they see, trust and confidence can follow graciously.

9 min Read
North Shore Betty
North Shore Betty

You’re never too old to send. A film about bikes and one bad-ass mother hucker.

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Not Hurt, Healing
Not Hurt, Healing
Aimee Eaton

Taking off the bandages is just the beginning.

13 min Read
Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone
Oak Flat Is No Sacrifice Zone
Len Necefer

As we make a transition to renewable sources of energy, let’s not renew the same old mistakes.

10 min Read
North Shore Betty
North Shore Betty
Darcy Hennessey Turenne

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.

9 min Read
Emergent Seas
Emergent Seas
Lauren L. Hill

Exploring motherhood and meaningful play.

10 min Read
A Partial Ascent of Mantok 0
A Partial Ascent of Mantok 0
Jack Cramer

Lessons from a close one in Alaska.

9 min Read
Silence, Water, Hope
Silence, Water, Hope
Andrew O’Reilly

Protecting the ocean is what friends are for.

5 min Read
One Fish to Feed Them All
One Fish to Feed Them All
Steve Duda

Tiny but mighty, herring might be the most important fish in the ocean.

7 min Read
Making Oil History
Making Oil History
Colin Wiseman

Folkeaksjonen is taking action against petroleum exploration in the Norwegian Sea.

9 min Read
Pointless Beauty: The Art of Bodysurfing
Pointless Beauty: The Art of Bodysurfing
Rory Parker

Where worthless and priceless collide.

4 min Read
Run to the Source
Run to the Source

Martin Johnson embarks on his most challenging run, as he explores the connection between Black British history and the River Thames.

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Dark River Runs Deep
Dark River Runs Deep
Martin Johnson & Michael Fordham

An attempt to set the fastest known time on the 184-mile path to the source of the River Thames.

7 min Read
A Word …
A Word …
Tom Frost & Yvon Chouinard

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.

4 min Read
Bring Back Clean Climbing
Bring Back Clean Climbing
MaiLee Hung

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.

10 min Read
Lost Lines
Lost Lines
Luca Albrisi

Following the impacts of snow sports through the mountains of Italy.

6 min Read
The Real Hidden Gems of the West Coast
The Real Hidden Gems of the West Coast
Miles Masterson

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.

7 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Restorative Shovels and Dynamite
It’s All Home Water: Restorative Shovels and Dynamite
Gregory Fitz

Upstream of the Snake River dams in Idaho, Riggins waits for the fish to return.

17 min Read
The Pisgah Paradox
The Pisgah Paradox
Kristian Jackson

In North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, a collaboration between anglers and mountain bikers uses better trails to create healthier rivers.

10 min Read
Club Run
Club Run
Anna Callaghan

The friends that make you want to run 100 miles.

10 min Read
The Writing on the Wall
The Writing on the Wall
Leilani Bruntz

In a tiny Colorado ski town, the world’s oldest mountain-bike club is facing the complicated reality of recreation gone right.

10 min Read
Generations of Layers
Generations of Layers
David Sax, Lisa Jhung, Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada, 坂本 麻人, 玉井 秀樹 & 若林 輝

A waltz down vestiary’s lane.

6 min Read
Child of the Setting Sun
Child of the Setting Sun
Mitchell Scott

One woman’s against-all-odds journey to save a beautiful piece of a stolen future.

11 min Read
Spare Parts
Spare Parts
Sakeus Bankson

A gift of mud and love and neglect.

5 min Read
Mind Over Mountain
Mind Over Mountain

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Raising Kuba
Raising Kuba
Lauren Evans

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.

4 min Read
History Beneath Our Feet
History Beneath Our Feet
Myia Antone & Sandy Ward

Reciprocal learning while exploring traditional Indigenous territories in British Columbia.

9 min Read
Good Snow in the Forest
Good Snow in the Forest
Akio Shinya

Niseko’s Akio Shinya on avalanches,
kayak expeditions and rules to live by.

10 min Read
Home Is an Open Place
Home Is an Open Place
Rio Lakeshore

How the trails beneath our feet help us belong.

7 min Read
Seekseekqua on the Line of Climate Change
Seekseekqua on the Line of Climate Change
Len Necefer

The case for readopting Indigenous fire management practices.

8 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Cuyahoga Comeback
It’s All Home Water: Cuyahoga Comeback
Stephanie Vermillion

Ohio’s burning river made headlines in 1969. Now, the Cuyahoga’s telling a new story.

10 min Read
The Worst Traverse
The Worst Traverse
Dave Quinn

The industrious truth of British Columbia’s forgotten forests.

8 min Read
From the AT to NYC
From the AT to NYC
Lauren Evans

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.

5 min Read
Moments of Flow
Moments of Flow
Kristian Jackson

The psychology of the perfect ride.

7 min Read
Run to Be Visible
Run to Be Visible

Lydia Jennings honors Indigenous scientists of the past, present and future.

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Big-Wave Surfing: The Safety Paradox
Big-Wave Surfing: The Safety Paradox
Greg Long

Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave surfing more dangerous?

9 min Read
A person with long brown hair wearing a white t-shirt with a rainbow graphic.
Shifting Currents
Emerald LaFortune

Guiding queer identities in rural Idaho.

11 min Read
Love Scaled Up
Love Scaled Up
Lor Sabourin

Behind the film They/Them.

10 min Read
They/Them
They/Them

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.

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Anchoring for Change
Anchoring for Change
Morgan Williamson

How Captain Liz Clark’s Tahitian residency opened a new chapter in her activist work.

5 min Read
Life Lived Wild
Life Lived Wild
Rick Ridgeway

Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick has always been a great deal more.

5 min Read
It’s a Magical World
It’s a Magical World
Ryan Dunfee

Rolling through a full-scale sensory rebellion in New England.

5 min Read
Larch Love
Larch Love
Colin Wiseman

An ode to Larix lyallii.

5 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Mississippi Clean
It’s All Home Water: Mississippi Clean
Tom Hazelton

The Big Muddy is polluted. Securing the Driftless Area can help clean it.

10 min Read
For the Land We Inhabit
For the Land We Inhabit
Felipe Cancino

The communities of Cajón del Maipo, in Chile, are seeing their environment be threatened by an unnecessary hydroelectric project.

9 min Read
Higher Ground
Higher Ground
Austin Siadak & Richelle Kimble

Discovering that climbing is for them.

6 min Read
Corriendo para salvar una Cuenca (Run to Save a Watershed)
Corriendo para salvar una Cuenca (Run to Save a Watershed)

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.

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Cold Smoke, Hot Shot
Cold Smoke, Hot Shot
Connor Ryan & Micheli Oliver

A firekeeper caring for Indigenous land.

11 min Read
The Place to Go Downhill
The Place to Go Downhill
Korey Hopkins

A soldier finds solace on fat tires.

10 min Read
The Joy of Junky Windslop
The Joy of Junky Windslop
Daniel Duane

Tapping into the beginner’s mind while teaching his daughter to surf.

8 min Read
Trails for Everybody
Trails for Everybody
Teal Stetson-Lee

An interview with Gabo Benoit, trail advocate and mountain-bike mayor of Coyhaique, Chile.

19 min Read
Running the Isle
Running the Isle
Monica Prelle

Exploring one of the least visited but most revisited national parks, on foot.

10 min Read
Did You Ever Think?
Did You Ever Think?
Kim Strom

After a difficult year, a runner finds life anew in the Sierra.

10 min Read
Biirrinba is Life
Biirrinba is Life
Alistair Klinkenberg

Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.

6 min Read
Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ’Em!
Be Brave. Be Kind. Go Get ’Em!
Aimee Eaton

Raising activist anglers.

11 min Read
Tread Lightly
Tread Lightly
Emmeline Wang

Finding the intersection of identity, stewardship and rock climbing.

6 min Read
Carving Space for More Black Surfers
Carving Space for More Black Surfers
Malik Peay

Building positivity, inspiration and purpose out of a racist encounter in Los Angeles.

5 min Read
It’s All Home Water: The Bahamas
It’s All Home Water: The Bahamas
Nick Roberts

Roots and recovery on Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands.

12 min Read
Doing the Work
Doing the Work
Josh Wharton

Not totally relating to some forms of climate activism, Josh Wharton found his own way to contribute.

5 min Read
Water Always Wins
Water Always Wins
Kristian Jackson

A lesson in the rules of trail building.

6 min Read
Mommy, Where Do Clothes Come From?
Mommy, Where Do Clothes Come From?
Allison Gibson

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.

9 min Read
A New Surf Culture
A New Surf Culture
Stephanie Vermillion

This Great Lakes surfer never felt represented in the surf scene, so she created a new surf culture of her own.

6 min Read
Garbage Bins for the Ocean
Garbage Bins for the Ocean
Gabriela Aoun

Seasoned waterman, master woodworker and Patagonia Surf Ambassador Ben Wilkinson channels his skills toward a new environmental calling.

5 min Read
Last Chance to Get It Right
Last Chance to Get It Right
Gregory Fitz

Rule changes and the future of the Olympic Peninsula’s wild steelhead.

18 min Read
Girl Crush
Girl Crush
Natasha Woodworth

On designing our women’s climbing pants.

4 min Read
Born with This
Born with This
Steve Duda

The last days of the Klamath River dams.

20 min Read
A Swamp and 60 Feet
A Swamp and 60 Feet
Sakeus Bankson

An unlikely community, in the most unlikely location, has become an even more unlikely force for public lands conservation.

10 min Read
Overburden
Overburden
Dave Quinn

Coal built this ski town. Can the locals keep skiing without it?

9 min Read
On Letting Go
On Letting Go
Morgan Williamson

Ramón Navarro and Kohl Christensen bring Léa Brassy into the jaws of a Chilean monster.

4 min Read
A Pandemic Can’t Stop MeWater
A Pandemic Can’t Stop MeWater
Morgan Williamson

How a nonprofit that takes San Francisco kids surfing expanded its work in 2020.

6 min Read
The Return of a Surf Classic
The Return of a Surf Classic
Kim McCoy & Willard Newell Bascom

Coauthor Kim McCoy recounts discovering the mystery of what lies beneath the waves, where ocean and land meet and compete.

5 min Read
The Lure of the Unclimbed
The Lure of the Unclimbed
Anne Gilbert Chase & Jason Thompson

Reflecting on risk and partnership in Pakistan.

6 min Read
All Trails Belong to Mother Earth
All Trails Belong to Mother Earth
Renee Hutchens

Following in Indigenous footsteps on the Ute Pass Trail.

7 min Read
The Life-Saving Nature of Foam
The Life-Saving Nature of Foam
Gabriela Aoun

A look into surfing’s impact vests and the people they’ve brought back home.

8 min Read
A Leadership Supreme
A Leadership Supreme
Brooklyn Bell

The mountain-biking star of Becoming Ruby seeks out some of skiing's most powerful females.

3 min Read
The Darkest Web
The Darkest Web
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate

Protecting the Gulf of Mexico from illegal fishing.

11 min Read
Freedom of the Hills
Freedom of the Hills
Matthew Tufts

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.

17 min Read
Ground Control
Ground Control
Johnie Gall

Snowboarder Alex Yoder takes a Regenerative Organic approach to his new coffee business by thinking like an astronaut.

7 min Read
Whitmore’s Legacy
Whitmore’s Legacy
John Long

Remembering the climber and conservationist.

6 min Read
Lessons from the River
Lessons from the River
Barry Lopez

50th Anniversary Wild And Scenic Rivers Act

8 min Read
Colin Haley’s Clothing System for Alpine Climbing in the Chaltén Massif
Colin Haley’s Clothing System for Alpine Climbing in the Chaltén Massif
Colin Haley

6,000 words about dressing for alpine climbing you didn’t know you needed to know.

23 min Read
The Eddie Must Go (On)
The Eddie Must Go (On)
Morgan Williamson

Clyde Aikau on why the most culturally significant big-wave event in surfing will always matter.

7 min Read
Sendero Luminoso
Sendero Luminoso
Josh Wharton

Back to the Wind River Range.

5 min Read
Moving the Needle
Moving the Needle
Matt Coté

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.

6 min Read
Connecting the Cochamó and Puelo Valleys
Connecting the Cochamó and Puelo Valleys
Felipe Cancino

A dead-end dirt road is the start to a new challenge—and a fight to protect South America’s Yosemite.

6 min Read
Solving For Z
Solving For Z

Solving for Z explores IFMGA guide and father Zahan Billimoria’s relationship to the intoxicating highs and crushing blows of big mountain skiing.

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Soulcraft
Soulcraft
Meaghen Brown

Words and wisdom from two Montana runners.

4 min Read
At the River’s Edge
At the River’s Edge
Julie Huang Tucker

How one suburban mountain biker’s vision for a trail system reshaped a former industrial town—and turned trail building into a family tradition.

6 min Read
Calculating Risk
Calculating Risk
Mikey Schaefer

Reflecting on a lifetime of climbing, and the risks and rewards that come with it.

7 min Read
Connected by Water
Connected by Water

From 2-foot to 20-foot, the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group (BWRAG) is sparking a global movement in surf safety.

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The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide
The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide
Matt Hansen

How Zahan Billimoria recalibrated after unthinkable tragedy.

15 min Read
Hair of the Dog
Hair of the Dog
Bonnie Tsui

A skiing family’s shear joy.

3 min Read
It’s All Home Water: The Crash of Florida’s Tarpon Capitol
It’s All Home Water: The Crash of Florida’s Tarpon Capitol
Monte Burke

A Small Florida Town Was Once Host to the World’s Largest Tarpon. What Happened?

12 min Read
Rotpunkt: Bibliographie
Rotpunkt: Bibliographie

Alex Megos finds a new limit.

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Dead Friends and Ocean Risk Management
Dead Friends and Ocean Risk Management
Morgan Williamson

Kohl Christensen discusses how BWRAG came to be and his recent near-death experience courtesy of Pipeline's reef.

7 min Read
A Matter of Love
A Matter of Love
Colin Wiseman

Marie-France Roy on speaking up for our home planet.

6 min Read
Honoring the Mountains
Honoring the Mountains

As communities evolve, so do their guiding beliefs.

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You Call Yourself an Angler?
You Call Yourself an Angler?
Stephen Sautner

Conservation, fishing and the 2020 election.

7 min Read
New Routing (and Photogenic Wildlife) in Kenya
New Routing (and Photogenic Wildlife) in Kenya
Eric Bissell

Eric Bissell captured his first published image with Patagonia on a climbing trip to establish a new route on Mount Ololokwe.

7 min Read
Her Stride
Her Stride
Molly Baker

Natasha Woodworth, the designer behind Patagonia’s new backcountry ski touring kits, approaches skiing and technical design with the same understated competence.

7 min Read
When a River Burns
When a River Burns
Amanda Monthei

Of forests, fire and fish.

6 min Read
A Brave, Generous Place
A Brave, Generous Place
Lee House

Observations of unraveling ecosystems from the snow-lovers of Sitka, Alaska.

7 min Read
Will You Vote for Winter?
Will You Vote for Winter?
Maia Wikler

Snow lovers and professional athletes are mobilizing to elect climate leaders.

6 min Read
Share the Love. Share the Poster.
Share the Love. Share the Poster.
Steve Duda

Patagonia Fly Fish releases “We Stand for the Water We Stand In” poster.

2 min Read
Best of Home, Volume 2: Cougar Ridge
Best of Home, Volume 2: Cougar Ridge
Colin Wiseman

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.

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Paths Through the Uncertainty
Paths Through the Uncertainty
Kitty Calhoun

A climber remembers her first experience with the
unexpected on Thalay Sagar.

4 min Read
Valley Season
Valley Season
Patagonia

Eliza Earle, Austin Siadak, Drew Smith on the 2019 fall climbing season in Yosemite.

3 min Read
Unfenceable Space
Unfenced

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.

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Best of Home, Volume 1: Backbone Trail
Best of Home, Volume 1: Backbone Trail
Kyle Sparks

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.

3 min Read
When Mountains Become Islands
When Mountains Become Islands
John Larison

Are public lands still “public” when you can’t access them?

8 min Read
One Lap at a Time
One Lap at a Time
Matthew Tufts

An eclectic band of Argentine locals cultivates a grassroots backcountry ski community in one of the world’s most unforgiving mountain ranges.

9 min Read
Stone Locals
Stone Locals

Rediscovering the soul of rock climbing.

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Primary Source
Primary Source
Alex Lowther

Alex Megos tells the story of his Bibliographie.

9 min Read
Some Boundaries Are Worth Preserving
Some Boundaries Are Worth Preserving
Alex Falconer

Running through the most-visited wilderness in the continental United States, rallying to its defense.

8 min Read
Run the Red
Run the Red
Katie Klingsporn

A trail running race in southwest Wyoming brings attention to the importance of protecting the largest unfenced area in the contiguous United States.

8 min Read
The Environmental Irony of Surfing
The Environmental Irony of Surfing
Morgan Williamson

Dave Rastovich and Greg Long log in and discuss the current state of surfing, its cultural and ecological impacts, and where it’s headed.

19 min Read
Taking Back Puget Sound
Taking Back Puget Sound
Dylan Tomine

A bold plan to kick net-pen salmon farms out for good.

7 min Read
The Myth of the Great Bike Savior
The Myth of the Great Bike Savior
Patrick Lucas

Outdoor recreation can be a lifeline for rural economies, but the industry has also benefited from the erasure of Indigenous peoples from their lands.

9 min Read
It’s All Home Water: The Medicines of Wanderlust
It’s All Home Water: The Medicines of Wanderlust
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate

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…

3 min Read
Why Wilderness Matters More Than You
Why Wilderness Matters More Than You
Michael Ferrentino

BIKE Magazine contributing editor Michael Ferrentino on our perceived right to ride wherever we want.

6 min Read
Ghosts
Ghosts
Steve Duda

What We Fish for When We Fish for Carp

7 min Read
Coming Home
Coming Home
Emilé Zynobia

For three women of color in Wyoming, going into the mountains isn’t about representation—it’s about reclaiming their power, together.

7 min Read
Down from the Mountains
Down from the Mountains
Josefine Ås

A French ski patroller’s move to become a permaculture farmer.

4 min Read
It’s All Home Water: The People’s River
It’s All Home Water: The People’s River
Dave Zoby

How Casper reimagined the North Platte.

12 min Read
Amidst the Mustard
Amidst the Mustard
Dillon Osleger

Battling invasive species through better trailbuilding.

5 min Read
Road Trip to an Unfamiliar Place
Road Trip to an Unfamiliar Place
Brittany Leavitt

A climber takes a road trip to Bishop and Las Vegas, and breaks down the narrative of who travels and who climbs.

23 min Read
Into the Deep End
Into the Deep End
Matt Skenazy

Meet Annie Reickert, the 18-year-old Maui charger Paige Alms is mentoring in the Jaws lineup and beyond.

4 min Read
Net Positive
Net Positive
Adam Skolnick

How discarded plastic fishing nets found their way into our hat brims.

3 min Read
A Pedal Through the Prairie
A Pedal Through the Prairie
Joel Caldwell

A bikepacking expedition inspired by one of North America’s most iconic landscapes, and the American Prairie Reserve’s audacious effort to restore it.

15 min Read
How to Interview Your Dad
How to Interview Your Dad
Kyle Thiermann

And why you should do it now.

7 min Read
The Unridden
The Unridden
Kosuke Fujikura

If you don’t get what you came for, be sure to enjoy the ride.

4 min Read
Sunnyside Up
Sunnyside Up
Tommy Caldwell

Last November, Fitz Caldwell (age 6) finished his first multipitch climb, Sunnyside Bench in Yosemite National Park. He did it with his dad, Tommy.

3 min Read
Running to the Bottom of the World
Running to the Bottom of the World
Felipe Cancino

Exploring South America’s public lands on foot.

6 min Read
First Photo: Mount Whitney
First Photo: Mount Whitney
Kyle Sparks

A Sierra trip with good light and only one case of altitude sickness.

9 min Read
Trying Adds Up
Trying Adds Up
Nick Russell

After years of dreaming, Nick Russell and Christian Pondella complete a clean descent on Mount Morrison in the Eastern Sierra.

6 min Read
On Trail and Off the Map
On Trail and Off the Map
Max Wittenberg

In Coyhaique, Chile, the ghosts of resource extraction may offer a path toward a new recreation-based future.

6 min Read
Feeling the River All Around
Feeling the River All Around
Brett Tallman

River snorkeling’s miserable beauty.

4 min Read
Il Pescatore Completo
Il Pescatore Completo

Arturo Pugno, a fisherman in the Italian Alps, is the last known practitioner of an ancient style of flyfishing remarkable for its pure simplicity.

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Lessons from Jeju
Lessons from Jeju

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.

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Honorary Haenyeo
Honorary Haenyeo
Archana Ram

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.

8 min Read
Self-Isolation, Learned from a Life at Sea
Self-Isolation, Learned from a Life at Sea
Liz Clark

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.

5 min Read
Becoming Ruby
Becoming Ruby

A Mountain Bike film about inclusion, identity and hand-drawn heroes.

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New Roads in the Ancient Kingdom of Zanskar
New Roads in the Ancient Kingdom of Zanskar
Mary McIntyre

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.

4 min Read
Finding My Voice
Finding My Voice
Janna Irons

How Belinda Baggs went from an ‘armchair’ activist to the front lines.

3 min Read
What Do the Winds Bring?
What Do the Winds Bring?
Kieran Brownie

After surviving calamity in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, a few skiers return to COVID-19.

10 min Read
What Comes Next
What Comes Next
Rolando Garibotti

Rolando Garibotti looks back at a lifetime spent in Patagonia and forward to the generation following in his footsteps.

4 min Read
Exactly Where You Are Supposed To Be
Exactly Where You Are Supposed To Be
Tommy Caldwell

Tommy Caldwell's first trip to Patagonia

3 min Read
SOLO
SOLO
Colin Haley

Colin Haley on the experience of soloing the Supercanaleta

4 min Read
Six Years Seven Summits
Six Years Seven Summits
Kate Rutherford

Kate Rutherford Remembers the North Pillar of Fitz Roy

3 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Steelhead Green
It’s All Home Water: Steelhead Green
Steve Duda

Photo Essay: Waiting for the Wild on Oregon’s North Coast

2 min Read
Not Your Average Surf Comp
Not Your Average Surf Comp
Gabriela Aoun

Welcome to Ian Walsh’s Menehune Mayhem.

3 min Read
The Process and the Reward
The Process and the Reward
Pete Geall

Greg Long, Al Mackinnon and Pete Geall’s dusty search for uncrowded perfection at Location Redacted.

6 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Oregon Steelhead
It’s All Home Water: Oregon Steelhead
Steve Duda

Feature: Squeaky Wheels, Wild Fish and Carrot Sticks

10 min Read
Right Where I Belong
Right Where I Belong
Eric Arce

“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.”

9 min Read
The Most Obvious Line
The Most Obvious Line
Luke Nelson

Luke Nelson's FKT on the Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup.

5 min Read
Power Shift on the Columbia
Power Shift on the Columbia
Jim Norton

After a century of conflict on the Columbia between salmon and dams, the fates of these two iconic energy systems are now intertwined.

7 min Read
From the Ground Up
From the Ground Up
Kate Rutherford

For this climber, good food is activism.

6 min Read
Fire Up the Test Tank
Fire Up the Test Tank
Malcolm Johnson

There’s nothing more important than having waves a few minutes away.

3 min Read
Ride Flat Pow
Ride Flat Pow
Tomonori Tanaka

Changing our dynamics with the mountains can help us be in them longer, and appreciate them more.

3 min Read
Voices for the Ocean
Voices for the Ocean

We protect what we love.

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Vince Anderson Q&A
Vince Anderson Q&A
Jesse Selwyn

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.

13 min Read
Saving Slickrock
Saving Slickrock
Sakeus Bankson

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.

6 min Read
It Takes All Kinds: Horses and Bikes in the Washington Backcountry
It Takes All Kinds: Horses and Bikes in the Washington Backcountry
Danielle Baker

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.

6 min Read
The Song Remains The Same
The Song Remains The Same
Andrew Burr

How a father and son found a way to climb one of Utah's most sought-after ice routes in a bygone era.

3 min Read
It’s All Home Water: Paddling Past the Graveyard
It’s All Home Water: Paddling Past the Graveyard
Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate

Feature: An intimate canoe trip through The Boundary Waters with Nathaniel Riverhorse Nakadate.

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The Fight For The Bight
The Fight For The Bight
Sean Doherty

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.

10 min Read
Perched On A Wild Border
Perched On A Wild Border
Timmy O’Neill

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…

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Ryland Bell’s Chilkat Hideaway
Ryland Bell’s Chilkat Hideaway
Colin Wiseman

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…

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Keep Red Lady Free: The Fun-Loving Activists of Crested Butte
Keep Red Lady Free: The Fun-Loving Activists of Crested Butte
Laura Yale

 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.

7 min Read
What I Fought For
What I Fought For

Former Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen battles the destruction of wild places he served to protect.

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Finnish Breakthrough
Finnish Breakthrough
Gregory Fitz

How actor Jasper Pääkkönen advocates for wild fish.

8 min Read
Rotpunkt
Rotpunkt

Through failure and success, Alex Megos strives to be the best climber in the world.

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What Good Neighbors Do
What Good Neighbors Do
Sakeus Bankson

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.

13 min Read
Mountain Fristers
Mountain Fristers
Kennan Harvey

Ski-touring Banff National Park with two teen daughters.

5 min Read
Artifishal
Artifishal

The road to extinction is paved with good intentions

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Where Life Begins: Patagonia Ambassadors Explore the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Where Life Begins: Patagonia Ambassadors Explore the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Clare Gallagher

 

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Finding Granite and New Limits in Madagascar
Finding Granite and New Limits in Madagascar
Robbie Phillips

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…

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The Summit Which Never Melts: Dookʼoʼoosłííd
The Summit Which Never Melts: Dookʼoʼoosłííd
Len Necefer

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…

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Lessons from Yosemite’s First Climbing Guidebook
Lessons from Yosemite’s First Climbing Guidebook
Timmy O’Neill

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,…

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Suffering for Solitude
Suffering for Solitude
Jasper Gibson

Telegraph Creek, B.C. to Wrangell, Alaska by Ski and Kayak

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How Roy, New Mexico Became a World-Class Bouldering Area
How Roy, New Mexico Became a World-Class Bouldering Area
Eric Bissell

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…

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A Day at the Yosemite Facelift Cleanup
A Day at the Yosemite Facelift Cleanup
Jane Jackson

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…

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Circumnavigating Crater Lake by Ski
Circumnavigating Crater Lake by Ski
Colin Wiseman

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…

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Making Dirt Magic: Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
Making Dirt Magic: Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship
Sakeus Bankson

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.

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FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)
FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)
Jenn Shelton

Jenn Shelton traverses the Sierra High Route.

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Dirt Magic
Dirt Magic

Downieville, CA’s journey from dying mining town to mountain-bike mecca.

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There Is Only Send or Fail. Just Ask Alex Megos.
There Is Only Send or Fail. Just Ask Alex Megos.
Alex Lowther

He’s on a mission to be the best climber in the world.

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Estado Salmonero
Estado Salmonero

In a nation known for its massive resource extraction, salmon farming is now bigger than all of Chile’s industries except copper mining.

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Saving One River: Hoh Steelhead in Decline
Saving One River: Hoh Steelhead in Decline
Colin Wiseman

“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…

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“Life of Pie”: Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller Q&A
“Life of Pie”: Jen Zeuner and Anne Keller Q&A
Katie Klingsporn

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…

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If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural Takayna Ultramarathon
If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural Takayna Ultramarathon
Krissy Moehl

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…

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Saving Martha
Saving Martha

Keep King Island Fish Farm Free.

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Los Plástico
Los Plástico

A Search for the World's Largest Wave.

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Adventure Over Adversity
Adventure Over Adversity
Kitty Calhoun

Paradox Sports Brings Accessibility to Climbing

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Life of Pie
Life of Pie

Uniting a community through advocacy, inclusivity and damn good pizza.

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A Conversation with Surfboard Designer Fletcher Chouinard
A Conversation with Surfboard Designer Fletcher Chouinard
Sean Doherty

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…

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Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters
Kimi Werner, Léa Brassy and Liz Clark: Sea Sisters
Kimi Werner

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…

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Finding Refuge in Iran’s Climbing Culture
Finding Refuge in Iran’s Climbing Culture
Beth Wald

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…

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The Sierra Snow Wolf: Snowboarder Nick Russell
The Sierra Snow Wolf: Snowboarder Nick Russell
Max Hammer

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…

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Life of Pie: How Hot Tomato Pizza Unites a Mountain Biking Paradise
Life of Pie: How Hot Tomato Pizza Unites a Mountain Biking Paradise
Diane French

Friday night at the Hot Tomato is not for those in a hurry. Hungry customers grip pints of beer and compare notes on the day’s rides in lines that spill into the parking lot. Music pumps and the staff whirls behind the counter, tossing floury dough, yelling requests to the kitchen, giving each other shit.…

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Stop New Offshore Drilling
Stop New Offshore Drilling
Patagonia

The Trump administration wants to open almost all of America’s coastline to the oil industry, putting our beaches and oceans at serious risk. Fifty years ago, an offshore rig spilled 100,000 barrels of crude oil into California’s Santa Barbara Channel, creating a 35-mile slick that fouled the wave-rich shoreline from Goleta to Ventura. It should…

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Nose to the Wind
Nose to the Wind
Steve House

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.

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Why Run
Why Run
Meaghen Brown

Generations of a Diné family reflect on running.

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Seven Recommendations for Trail Racing and Training
Seven Recommendations for Trail Racing and Training
Kílian Jornet

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:…

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The Best Hatchery Is a Healthy River
The Best Hatchery Is a Healthy River
Dylan Tomine

We are killing what we love. The vast system of hatcheries and open-water fish farms we’ve built is an expression of our affection for cold-water fish—as food, as recreation, as commercial resource. And yet, despite our best intentions, these human-engineered attempts to make up for resource extraction, development and dam building—to somehow do better than…

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An Englishman Surfs in Euskadi
An Englishman Surfs in Euskadi
Tony Butt

It was November 1991. I was with two friends and we were at the beginning of a three-month surf trip around the coasts of Spain and Portugal. Mundaka was our starting point. We all agreed that we would be happy just to get something better than the cold, windblown beach breaks we had left behind…

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A Very Large, Long Group Run Through the Bob Marshall Wilderness
A Very Large, Long Group Run Through the Bob Marshall Wilderness
Meaghen Brown

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…

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Eli
Eli

Why We Run

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Home Pool, Sulphur Creek: Losing a Favorite Fishing Spot to Climate Change
Home Pool, Sulphur Creek: Losing a Favorite Fishing Spot to Climate Change
Peter Heller

When you lose your trout stream to climate change, where do you go to find yourself? It was late September and the creek ran clear and low out of the West Elks in southwestern Colorado. My favorite time of year: Through the V of the ravine upstream I could see the shoulders of Mount Gunnison…

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Closer To Home
Closer To Home

Sometimes the simplest way to explore is to look around you.

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Treeline: Trespassing
Treeline: Trespassing
Garrett Grove

When we move through the forest in winter, we’re often left wonderstruck by snow-shrouded trees bent and morphed from years of wear in silent solitude. Their depth of character becomes evident as we weave ourselves into their lives and ecosystems. But we often tell our stories and not theirs. Our new film Treeline follows skiers…

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Treeline: The Core
Treeline: The Core
Taro Tamai

When we move through the forest in winter, we’re often left wonderstruck by snow-shrouded trees bent and morphed from years of wear in silent solitude. Their depth of character becomes evident as we weave ourselves into their lives and ecosystems. But we often tell our stories and not theirs. Our new film Treeline follows skiers…

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Treeline: Homegrown
Treeline: Homegrown
Leah Evans

When we move through the forest in winter, we’re often left wonderstruck by snow-shrouded trees bent and morphed from years of wear in silent solitude. Their depth of character becomes evident as we weave ourselves into their lives and ecosystems. But we often tell our stories and not theirs. Our new film Treeline follows skiers…

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Treeline: The Film
Treeline: The Film
Molly Baker

When we move through the forest in winter, we’re often left wonderstruck by snow-shrouded trees bent and morphed from years of wear in silent solitude. Their depth of character becomes evident as we weave ourselves into their lives and ecosystems. But we often tell our stories and not theirs. Our new film Treeline follows skiers and…

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Treeline
Treeline

An ancient story written in rings

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