Stories - Patagonia Australia

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

Lisa Jhung

Keeping Pace

Lisa Jhung

8 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.

Beau Miles

A Bloody Long Run

Beau Miles

10 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.

Ariella Carpenter

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

Ariella Carpenter

10 min Read

Streaks of light and the suggestion of sound.

Monica Prelle

In Search of Silence

Monica Prelle

5 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

Meaghen Brown

Run for Something

Meaghen Brown

7 Min Read

Kiko Sweeney

A family explores their relationship to running.

Running the Coast

Kiko Sweeney

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.

Lucía Flórez

How one trail runner embodies his Inca heritage by running Peru’s sacred, ancient trails.

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Lucía Flórez

9 Min Read

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

Rio Lakeshore

How the trails beneath our feet help us belong.

Home Is an Open Place

Rio Lakeshore

6 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.

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

Leaving the city. Photo: Holly-Marie Cato

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

Anna Callaghan

The friends that make you want to run 100 miles.

Club Run

Anna Callaghan

10 min Read

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

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

Running the Isle

10 Min Read

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

Did You Ever Think?

6 Min Read

2021 takayna Trail. Photo: Kelly Slater.

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

“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

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

Meet the Wolfpack

10 Min Read

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

The Human Bean

10 Min Read

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

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

The Most Obvious Line

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

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

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

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

Patagonia

Running Led Me Home

Keeping Pace

A Bloody Long Run

Breaking Trail for Clean Air

In Search of Silence

Run for Something

Running the Coast

Chasqui of the 21st Century

Home Is an Open Place

Prayer Run for Oak Flat

Dark River Runs Deep

Club Run

For the Land We Inhabit

Running the Isle

Did You Ever Think?

Tigers Change Their Stripes in the Tarkine

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

Meet the Wolfpack

The Human Bean

Nose to the Wind

The Most Obvious Line

The Way There: Why We Create and Seek Out Trails

Dispatches from the Edge of the World

World Heritage Protection for the Tarkine

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