Peak Design

If you read our previous Field Note, you'll know that we deeply believe in the protection of public lands. Our beliefs are so strong that we're willing to take action on them, action that might not even be supported by some of our most loyal customers.In this Field Note, we ce...

Patagonia did a big thing yesterday. They decided to boycott Outdoor Retailer, the most important event in the outdoor industry.They did this in response to the Bears Ears land conservation issue, the long and short of which is this: the state of Utah has been trying to protec...

For the most part, we're minimalists. Particularly when it comes to product design, company bureaucracy, and sleep. But there's one area where we have a serious collecting (if not hoarding) problem: friends. We freakin' love friends.We met Michelle Park (@trainsandplanes) thro...

Chile's Torres Del Paine National Park is one of Patagonia's most stunning landscapes, which is really saying something. That's like being one of San Francisco's most gentrified neighborhoods, or one of Bon Iver's most sleep-inducing songs. Through the park runs a giant W-shap...

Zach and Allie Leon are a couple with a lot of things going for them. For one, they've got an amazing couple name, Zalleon, which may or may not be a Star Trek planet. Secondly, their URL game is on point: www.zalleon.com. So right there, you've ticked off the two most importa...

The following story was written and shot by the one, the only, Kylie Fly. You may remember her from the time she and her two doppelgangers hit up the Grand Canyon. Well, she's back. And we (and you) are all the luckier for it. Take it away, Fly.

Ever wonder what it's like to bike through Kyrgyzstan? Well, Joe Cruz (@joecruzpedaling), Logan Watts (@bikepackingcom), Joel Caldwell (@joelwcaldwell), and Lucas Winzenburg (@bunyanvelo) did and decided to find out. Over the course of 20 days they biked 613 miles of mostly un...

Our friend Dave Katz (you may know him from his recent Infrared Rebirth) spent the last month adventuring around the Republic of Georgia and came back with some gorgeous stuff to share. Normally we give these articles a fancy-schmancy preamble, but Dave's commentary tells it l...

There's a saying up North that there's two kinds of nice: nice, which is the one that we're all familiar with, and Minnesota-nice, which is an entire other order magnitude of niceness that only people from the great state of Minnesota are hereditarily capable of exuding.Scott ...