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Snow Stories
![Lost Lines](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/pavana-m-0044-cc-web-19x9-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
Following the impacts of snow sports through the mountains of Italy.
![The Old-Fashioned Way](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/bigham-g-0207-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Photographic time travel with longtime Patagonia contributor Gary Bigham.
![Being Home](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/jaramillo-s-0075-cc-web-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
A band of mountain friends learns that when they give attention to what they see, trust and confidence can follow graciously.
![Making Oil History](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/wildhagen-j-0015-cc-web-768x364.jpg.webp)
Folkeaksjonen is taking action against petroleum exploration in the Norwegian Sea.
![Mind Over Mountain](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/martinpreney-m-0002-cc-web-1920x2560-1-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Mind Over Mountain ist eine intime Reise dreier Freundinnen, den kanadischen Wintersportlerinnen Leah Evans, Marie-France Roy und Madeleine Martin-Preney. Der Film dokumentiert ihre 137 Kilometer lange und 9.000 Meter hohe Tour: Die Bugaboos-Rogers-Ski-Traverse.
![Child of the Setting Sun](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/gore-p-0083-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
One woman’s against-all-odds journey to save a beautiful piece of a stolen future.
![History Beneath Our Feet](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/mashon-m-0002-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
Reciprocal learning while exploring traditional Indigenous territories in British Columbia.
![Good Snow in the Forest](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/niki-a-0006-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
Niseko’s Akio Shinya on avalanches,kayak expeditions and rules to live by.
![Seekseekqua on the Line of Climate Change](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/roemer-t-0408-cc-web-2560x1920-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
The case for readopting Indigenous fire management practices.
![The Worst Traverse](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/medig-k-0165-cc-web-2560x1920-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
The industrious truth of British Columbia’s forgotten forests.
![Cold Smoke, Hot Shot](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/oliver-m-0014-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A firekeeper caring for Indigenous land.
![Overburden](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/medig_k_0106_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Coal built this ski town. Can the locals keep skiing without it?
![Nine and a Half](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/fredrikssonm_8327-768x512.jpg.webp)
When Swedish mountain guide Per Ås lost half of his left index finger, he started to question if he would ever find his way back to working in the mountains. A few years later, he has learned to live with it.
![A Leadership Supreme](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/mcintyre_m_0206_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
The mountain-biking star of Becoming Ruby seeks out some of skiing's most powerful females.
![Ground Control](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/gall_j_0014-2250x1500-1-768x512.jpg.webp)
Snowboarder Alex Yoder takes a regenerative approach to his new coffee business by thinking like an astronaut.
![Solving For Z](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2560x1440_marmsater_f_1344_hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
„Solving for Z“ (dt. etwa: die Gleichung nach der Variablen{sp}Z auflösen) zeigt die Beziehung des IFMGA-Bergführers und Vaters Zahan Billimoria zu den berauschenden Höhen und vernichtenden Schlägen eines Lebens in der risikoreichen Umgebung des Ski-Touring im Hochgebirge.
![The Relentless Push and Pull of a Mountain Guide](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/hittmeier_l_0083_cc_web-2250x1265-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How Zahan Billimoria recalibrated after unthinkable tragedy.
![Her Stride](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/buisse_a_0139-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Natasha Woodworth, the designer behind Patagonia’s new backcountry ski touring kits, approaches skiing and technical design with the same understated competence.
![A Brave, Generous Place](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/house_patagonia-snow_sitka-53-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Observations of unraveling ecosystems from the snow-lovers of Sitka, Alaska.
![Will You Vote for Winter?](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/fredriksson_m_0331-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Snow lovers and professional athletes are mobilizing to elect climate leaders.
![One Lap at a Time](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/07_24_2020_mt-39-2250x1265-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
An eclectic band of Argentine locals cultivates a grassroots backcountry ski community in one of the world’s most unforgiving mountain ranges.
![Coming Home](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jaramillo_s_0014-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
For three women of color in Wyoming, going into the mountains isn’t about representation—it’s about reclaiming their power, together.
![Down from the Mountains](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/lharidon_e_0004-2250x1265-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A French mountain guide’s move to become a permaculture farmer.
![Trying Adds Up](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pondella_c_0540-768x432.jpg.webp)
After years of dreaming, Nick Russell and Christian Pondella complete a clean descent on Mount Morrison in the Eastern Sierra.
![What Do the Winds Bring?](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/brownie_k_0003_2250x1266-768x432.jpg.webp)
After surviving calamity in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains, a few skiers return to COVID-19.
![Ride Flat Pow](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/miller_andrew_0356_cc_web-2250x1265-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Changing our dynamics with the mountains can help us be in them longer, and appreciate them more.
![Ryland Bell’s Chilkat Hideaway](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/wiseman_c_0422-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
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…
![Keep Red Lady Free: The Fun-Loving Activists of Crested Butte](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/woodward_f_0463_cc_web-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
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.
![What I Fought For](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/whatifoughtfor_1920x2560-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Der ehemalige Navy SEAL Josh Jespersen kämpft gegen die Zerstörung der Naturschutzgebiete, für deren Schutz er diente.