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Prime chinook spawning water in the pristine headwaters of Lake Wānaka. Photo: Callum Wood

The Forgotten Fish

Dougal Rillstone

Searching for chinook in the Clutha/ Mata Au is complicated science.

The Forgotten Fish

Dougal Rillstone

8 Min Read

The Most Obvious Line

Luke Nelson

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

The Most Obvious Line

Luke Nelson

5 Min Read

FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)

I picked it up on a whim at the ranger station in Bishop 2012. I was there finagling a permit that would look more or less legal for my attempt to break the men’s speed record across the John Muir Trail starting the next day. And there it was in my hand.

FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)

6 Min Read

Nose to the Wind

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.

Nose to the Wind

10 Min Read

World Heritage Protection for the Tarkine

Nearly two centuries ago, Henry David Thoreau wrote that “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” I first went deep into the forests of northwestern Tasmania in 1973 in an unsuccessful search for the Tasmanian tiger. That wonderful creature is now accepted as extinct, but the Tarkine remains a…

World Heritage Protection for the Tarkine

10 Min Read

Professional orienteer and wilderness advocate Hanny Allston runs near one of the entry points to the takayna / Tarkine region. Photo: Mikey Schaefer

The Way There: Why We Create and Seek Out Trails

Meaghen Brown

It starts with the focal beam of a headlamp. Sunrise is more than an hour away and it’s pouring rain. Hands tucked into the sleeves of a jacket, and the pace already quick through the sharp Tasmanian buttongrass—trying to stay warm. There is an urgency to understand this threatened place...

The Way There: Why We Create and Seek Out Trails

Meaghen Brown

10 Min Read

Dispatches from the Edge of the World

The wind at the edge of the world comes in clean and cold. Without any significant landmass to temper its force, it rips across the 40th latitude and slams into the prefab houses that straddle the tiny seaside township of Arthur River where we’re staying. It strains against the windows….

Dispatches from the Edge of the World

10 Min Read

The Human Bean

Beau Miles eats beans for 40 days to explore the invisible side to eating, feeling, and running.

The Human Bean

10 Min Read

Meet the Wolfpack

High in the San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado, a pack of runners roam.

Meet the Wolfpack

10 Min Read

If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural takayna Ultramarathon

“Exploring varying landscapes generates an energy and connection…that provides the ‘why’ to life for me.” “…these unbalanced running steps through lumping button grass were pounding a connection with the Tarkine into my cells.” “This event and the wild of Tassie tore in to my heart, embedded in my soul…”

If You Love It, Run for It: Dispatch from the Inaugural takayna Ultramarathon

10 Min Read

Watch 'Unfenced'

A race to keep the Red Desert wild. The Red Desert in southwest Wyoming is the largest unfenced area in the continental United States. But pressure

Watch 'Unfenced'

10 Minutes

Did You Ever Think?

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

Did You Ever Think?

6 Min Read

Running the Isle

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

Running the Isle

10 Min Read

For the Land We Inhabit

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

For the Land We Inhabit

6 Min Read

Club Run

Anna Callaghan

The friends that make you want to run 100 miles.

Club Run

Anna Callaghan

10 min Read

2021 takayna Trail. Photo: Kelly Slater.

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

Beau Miles isn’t really one for running with others, activism, or taking more than two showers a week

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

10 Min Read

Leaving the city. Photo: Holly-Marie Cato

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.

Dark River Runs Deep

Martin Johnson & Michael Fordham

7 Min Read

Holden Wilson (Diné) completing one of the first legs of the 227-mile run from Doko’oo’sliid (the San Francisco Peaks) to the sacred Apache land of 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.

Prayer Run for Oak Flat

Brophy Native American Club

9 Min Read

Ryan Mountain Trail, Joshua Tree National Park. Twentynine Palms, California.

Home Is an Open Place

Rio Lakeshore

How the trails beneath our feet help us belong.

Home Is an Open Place

Rio Lakeshore

6 Min Read

Saturnino Ayma and his son Kenedy hold a photo from when Saturnino was better known as “El Chasqui.” Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru.

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Lucía Flórez

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Lucía Flórez

9 Min Read

Running the Coast

Kiko Sweeney

A family explores their relationship to running.

Running the Coast

Kiko Sweeney

6 Min Read

Leaders can follow and followers can lead at Footprints Running Camp, a week-long program designed to reconsider the way things are done. Founder Dakota Jones calls Footprints the most meaningful thing he’s ever done. Silverton, Colorado. Photo: Max Romey

Run for Something

Meaghen Brown

Run for Something

Meaghen Brown

7 Min Read

Streaks of light and the suggestion of sound.

In Search of Silence

Monica Prelle

In Search of Silence

Monica Prelle

5 Min Read

Organising a race in Utah’s Wasatch Range in the middle of winter comes with many challenges, like a course that’s buried in untracked snow.

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

Ariella Carpenter

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

Ariella Carpenter

7 Min Read

“On the first leg, I drank twelve litres of water across a baking hot day in fire ravaged bush with no canopy.” Beau takes the path less travelled, hot on the trail of a long-dead mass murderer.

A Bloody Long Run

Beau Miles

A Bloody Long Run

Beau Miles

4 Min Read

Keeping Pace

Lisa Jhung

Keeping Pace

Lisa Jhung

8 Min Read

Running Led Me Home

Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada

After years of trying to fit in with Western trail culture, one runner realises that what she’s been missing lies in the Colombian mountains of her youth.

Running Led Me Home

Vanessa Chavarriaga Posada

8 Min Read

The Selkirk Shwack

Matthew Tufts

You don’t know until you go.

The Selkirk Shwack

Matthew Tufts

4 Min Read

Mark, Margaret and Sadie, on the porch of their Montana home. Photo: Tim Davis

Soulcraft

Meaghen Brown

Words and wisdom from two Montana runners.

Soulcraft

Meaghen Brown

5 Min Read

A couple of years after the fire that destroyed the giant pile of used clothes on the outskirts of Alto Hospicio, traces can still be found preserved under the arid soil of the Atacama Desert.

Built from Scrap

Franco Calderón

In northern Chile, a desert is being scourged by the textile industry. But a resilient community is transforming a reality of waste into opportunity.

Built from Scrap

Franco Calderón

10 Min Read

Where the Toad Still Sings

Connor Wood

Splitboards and the search for Yosemite’s melodic amphibian.

Where the Toad Still Sings

Connor Wood

10 Min

The Husky Stream washout — what was once a 5-minute walk is now an hour detour. Photo: Kit Pascoe

What Remains at Ball Hut

Nick Pascoe

I don’t think there’s a safe way down.

What Remains at Ball Hut

Nick Pascoe

10 Min

It snowed over 4 feet during the crew’s first two days in the Japanese Alps, and one could get buried by simply falling on the skintrack.

The Space Between the Snowflakes

Carston Oliver

Absence and balance in Japan.

The Space Between the Snowflakes

Carston Oliver

8 Min Read

Jirishanca

Josh Wharton

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

Jirishanca

Josh Wharton

4 Min Read

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and then-seamstress Val Franco reimagine a backpack in 1974. Photo: Gary Regester

The Story of Fleece

Rachel G. Clark

A tale of tinkering.

The Story of Fleece

Rachel G. Clark

10 Min Read

Jono Ridler spends roughly 6 hours a day in the moana on his mission to swim the entire east coast of the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. He hopes to ignite and unite Kiwis around the race for a healthy ocean. Photo: Josh McCormack.

A Swim For The Ocean

Kate Evans

Swimming the length of Aotearoa’s North Island, Jono Ridler is taking the long way around to spotlight what’s happening beneath the surface and call for an end to bottom trawling.

A Swim For The Ocean

Kate Evans

10 Min Read

Mariculture can be a sustainable mode of food production, if only it didn’t use so much damn plastic. Abby Barrows is working on that.

Reimagining Aquaculture

Kate Olson

Reimagining Aquaculture

Kate Olson

5 Min Read

Thanks to the Pous, a good swell down in Riverton/Aparima is synonymous with the sound of women’s laughter. Photo: Caitlin Hodgen.

Wāhine Waveriders: The Gifts We Pass Down

Georgia Merton

At the southern edge of Aotearoa, three generations of women share waves, laughter, and a way of being in the water.

Wāhine Waveriders: The Gifts We Pass Down

Georgia Merton

10 Min Read

Kaituna

River Mutton

A kayaker returns to the river that raised her, as a fast-tracked dam proposal puts the Kaituna’s Lower Gorges at risk.

Kaituna

River Mutton

5 Min Read

A usual lunch time gathering in Cape York, Far North Queensland, Australia. Photo: Kurt Rowlands.

You Don’t Need to Muscle It

Dougal Rillstone

A grandfather takes his grandsons to a remote corner of Australia in search of fish, and in the process learns something about himself.

You Don’t Need to Muscle It

Dougal Rillstone

12 Min Read

Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

Rose Marcario

Last week, when we announced we’d give 100 percent of our global retail and online Black Friday sales directly to grassroots nonprofits working on the frontlines to protect our air, water and soil for future generations, we heard from many of our customers calling it a “fundraiser for the earth.”

Record-breaking Black Friday Sales to Benefit the Planet – 2016

Rose Marcario

5 Min Read

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

Rose Marcario

We’re just days from Black Friday, one of the biggest consumer shopping days of the year in America. And as people think generously about family and friends, we also want to help our customers show love to the planet, which badly needs a gift or two (and still gets coal every year).

100 Percent Today, 1 Percent Every Day

Rose Marcario

5 Min Read

Barb and Neill Simpson amongst their backyard of sprawling natives. Photo: Dee Gerlach

One Hundred Thousand Trees and Counting

Georgia Merton

Barb and Neill Simpson have taken their love of the land, a stubborn attitude and a bunch of volunteers, and created a legacy of biodiversity in the Whakatipu basin.

One Hundred Thousand Trees and Counting

Georgia Merton

10 Min Read

The herring spawn begins as thousands of tons of female herring begin laying their tiny eggs on seaweed below the dark waters of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest.

One Fish to Feed Them All

Steve Duda

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

One Fish to Feed Them All

Steve Duda

7 Min Read

“It looks tame from here, but as soon as you are on the river bottom, it’s challenging. This is wilderness. You are not getting any reprieve from the elements. This is real,” says photographer Andrew Burr.

Floating Lines

Steve Duda

Witnessing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge via packraft.

Floating Lines

Steve Duda

6 Min Read

A Seventh Chance

Pete Whittaker

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

A Seventh Chance

Pete Whittaker

4 Min Read

The Volta Glacier is melting quickly — to pass its terminus and continue downriver we had to cross a partially frozen melt lake. We decided pushing through the ice in our packrafts was the safest way. Photo Jasper Gibson

The Path of a Water Droplet

Nick Pascoe

A ski and packraft journey from Tititea to the ocean.

The Path of a Water Droplet

Nick Pascoe

9 Min Read

Zoe Hart gives Mika and Buni a boost while climbing Le Brévent, high above their home in Chamonix, France. Photo: Pierre Cadot

Parenting: Disaster Style

Patagonia

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

Parenting: Disaster Style

Patagonia

2 Min Read

If ever there was a worthy canvas, it would be Rogers Pass in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains. Two artists drag a moody brushstroke on one of the area’s many ridgelines. Photo: Bruno Long

Art of the Skintrack

Leah Evans

Our stories are written in the tracks we leave.

Art of the Skintrack

Leah Evans

5 Min Read

Armand engages an adult in a deep mountain discussion. Maybe he’s giving a weather report or explaining his latest salt-dough creations. What a place for the imagination of a 3-year-old to fly free.

The Charpoua Way

Floran Tomei

The Charpoua Way

Floran Tomei

5 Min Read

Patagonia NZ

The Forgotten Fish

The Forgotten Fish

The Most Obvious Line

The Most Obvious Line

FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)

FFFKT (Fastest Fish Fourteener Known Time)

Nose to the Wind

Nose to the Wind

World Heritage Protection for the Tarkine

World Heritage Protection for the Tarkine

The Way There: Why We Create and Seek Out Trails

The Way There: Why We Create and Seek Out Trails

Dispatches from the Edge of the World

Dispatches from the Edge of the World

The Human Bean

The Human Bean

Meet the Wolfpack

Meet the Wolfpack

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

Watch 'Unfenced'

Watch 'Unfenced'

Did You Ever Think?

Did You Ever Think?

Running the Isle

Running the Isle

For the Land We Inhabit

For the Land We Inhabit

Club Run

Club Run

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

Dark River Runs Deep

Dark River Runs Deep

Prayer Run for Oak Flat

Prayer Run for Oak Flat

Home Is an Open Place

Home Is an Open Place

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Running the Coast

Running the Coast

Run for Something

Run for Something

In Search of Silence

In Search of Silence

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

A Bloody Long Run

A Bloody Long Run

Keeping Pace

Keeping Pace

Running Led Me Home

Running Led Me Home

The Selkirk Shwack

The Selkirk Shwack

Soulcraft

Soulcraft

Built from Scrap

Built from Scrap

Where the Toad Still Sings

Where the Toad Still Sings

What Remains at Ball Hut

What Remains at Ball Hut

The Space Between the Snowflakes

The Space Between the Snowflakes

Jirishanca

Jirishanca

The Story of Fleece

The Story of Fleece

A Swim For The Ocean

A Swim For The Ocean

Reimagining Aquaculture

Reimagining Aquaculture

Wāhine Waveriders: The Gifts We Pass Down

Wāhine Waveriders: The Gifts We Pass Down

Kaituna

Kaituna

You Don’t Need to Muscle It