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.
Inside the efforts to protect Chile’s Cochamó Valley from developers and overtourism.
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.
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.
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.
Our next fight against Big Oil is for basic human rights.
Running won’t solve the issue of wood pellet biomass pollution. But it can ignite community and conversation—and that’s a start.
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?
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.
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.
Península Mitre is now protected, thanks to the work of a committed community.
In a small British Columbia mountain town, one woman is using trails to help heal wounds and bridge two communities.
Struggling with a mental health crisis, one woman returns to the waters that raised her and finds healing in the ocean.
A Patagonia employee celebrates a huge environmental win for his beloved home waters.
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.
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
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.
A look inside Delta Brick & Climate Company, where doing is undoing.
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.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
A road trip through California’s worst drought in 1,200 years, and the folks working to restore broken ecosystems and rewild lost landscapes.
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.
Patagonia and Pop-Up Magazine Productions present a series about knowledge.
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.
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.
This story was supposed to be about a thriving, women-led organic farm in Maine. Then came news of the ”forever chemicals.”
The remarkable relationship between Hidetoshi Matsubara and his birds of prey.
Women make up less than five percent of US carpenters by trade. Some tradeswomen are changing the narrative, one dovetail joint at a time.
“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.
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.
Teresa Baker, Pattie Gonia, José González and Gabaccia Moreno bring a new initiative to the outdoor community.
Out of necessity, Jacqueline Sangueza loved fishing nets before she loved the ocean.
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.
In Western Apacheria, a tradition of cooking in the ground endures.
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.
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.
Why a logging protest has become Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
Rolling Stone called him “the real Indiana Jones.” His new memoir reveals why our friend Rick has always been a great deal more.
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.
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.
In San Luis Obispo, California, a team of bakers is building community by “pedaling” their wares.
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.
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.
