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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3h

Photos: Erik Boomer (slides 1, 3, 5), Paul Robert Wolf Wilson (slide 2), Ruby Williams (slide 4)

Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3h

With the descent complete, Ruby says the same youth who made the historic journey are now inspired to start paddle clubs in their own communities.  

“Our youth are really fighting to get more Native paddlers on the water to reclaim a sport that Indigenous people really invented.”

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3h

Fogburn, exhaustion and Class IV+ whitewater rapids later, 120 Indigenous youth from six local tribes completed the journey in July.   “We finished something we’d trained so long for. Something our people had been fighting for generations.”

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3h

“But I started paddling and I immediately developed this family.”   Ruby was one of 12 youth in the inaugural class of Paddle Tribal Waters—an initiative created by Indigenous kayakers in partnership with our nonprofit grantee, Ríos to Rivers, to prepare youth to complete the historic descent.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3h

Eighteen-year-old Ruby Williams (pictured) and dozens of other Indigenous youth spent years training to become the first people in over a century to descend the undammed Klamath River.   “I was hesitant to join at first,” said Ruby, who is Karuk and has lived on the river her entire life.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 1d

About one in five homes in Navajo Nation and the Hopi reservation have no electricity. So, our partners at Native Renewables are doing something about it. Since 2015, the Indigenous-led nonprofit has installed off-grid solar in 123 homes.

Learn more at https://pat.ag/B/NativeRenewables

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 2d

King Midas ain’t got sh*t on aspen trees in the fall. Jen Zeuner basks in her favorite type of gold outside of Telluride, Colorado.

Photo: Anne Keller

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 3d

Get a peek at the process of building our new PowSlayer Freeride Kit. Our senior product designer Maggie talks you through it. And yes, it’s as badass as it sounds.

Find the PowSlayer Freeride Kit at
https://pat.ag/B/F25/PFK

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

“If you step out of a window from the third floor talking about how gravity doesn’t exist, you’re still going to hit the ground,” Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert told Fortune’s Leadership Next podcast, hosted by Diane Brady and Kristin Stoller.

Listen to Ryan’s full interview
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How Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert Leads with Purpose | Leadership Next

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

The climate and nature crisis is an existential threat—no matter who says otherwise.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

From icy East Coast halfpipes to human-powered freeriding in the Sierra, Nick’s journey is all about the process: the uphill stride, the downhill glide and the never-ending search for the next line.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

Nick Russell has spent the last decade using his splitboard to chase powder around the globe—and helping refine our new PowSlayer Freeride Kit in the process. Now he’s answering your questions live in a Reddit AMA on October 14.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 4d

Ever wondered what it takes to ride huge lines in the world’s biggest, most remote mountains?

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 5d

“This figure was humble, resolute, highly skilled.” Is Dave Rastovich surfing’s Robin Hood? And is there a Dave heir somewhere?

Read “The Extinction of Dave Rastovich” at pat.ag/B/TheExtinct...

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 5d

“An academic’s novel from a century ago posed the likely origin lore of the Robin Hood figure as a village boundary protector rather than fugitive rambler,” writes Derek Hynd.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 7d

For the ones who aren’t coming in early, our Kids’ Snow collection prioritizes warmth, comfort and durability to keep them stoked all winter long.

Find the collection at https://pat.ag/B/F25/KidsStoke

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 8d

Check it out at pat.ag/B/F25NanoPuff

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 8d

With design tweaks to improve the fit and durability, our latest redesign ensures that the new Nano Puff offers even greater range of motion and can withstand whatever you throw at it for longer.

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 8d

It’s lightweight, packs down small, resists wind, rain and snow, and the synthetic insulation keeps you warm even if it gets wet. It’s streamlined and easy to layer over, yet tough and warm enough to be your stand-alone jacket. (It also makes for a great baby carrier, bivy bag and campsite dog bed.)

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 8d

The Nano Puff® has been THE do-it-all jacket since we first developed it for alpine climbing in 2009, and we’ve continued to push it ever since.

pat.ag/B/F25NanoPuff

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 9d

Fall weather in British Columbia can swing from gloomy grey to bluebird brilliance in a matter of minutes, but Revelstoke locals like Katie Welsch know the dirt is always incredible.

https://pat.ag/B/MTB/F25

Photo: Ryan Creary

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 12d

Surfer, writer and filmmaker, Derek Hynd sits down with Dave Rastovich to chat surfing’s paradox, environmentalism and who’s following Dave’s yeti tracks.

Read “The Extinction of Dave Rastovich” at https://pat.ag/B/TheExtinction

Photos: Nathan Oldfield, Andrew Buckley

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 13d

Coming soon: Our first Work in Progress Report. #EarthIsNoEasyBoss

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Patagonia @patagonia.com · 14d

Sometimes, “trail” and “waterfall” are but two sides of the same coin.

Everett Craig perseveres on an attempted human-powered traverse of the Selkirks in British Columbia with Tristan Kodors and photographer Matthew Tufts.

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