Patagonia has just launched a podcast, Patagonia Stories. In each episode,

host our Chana Rom will explore how we gather knowledge and ask questions about our relationship

to each other in the natural world. Questions like, how are lessons passed down through generations

to help us feel at home? What barriers prevent us from acquiring natural wisdom? How can we adapt

in the face for rapidly changing climate? There's so much more to come. You can find the first season

of Patagonia Stories wherever you get your podcasts.

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This is the thing on. I've got the studio to myself. Cordelia is out for a few weeks working on

an incredible musical that she wrote and is directing. That's pretty cool. Good luck,

cord, break a leg. That was the same. So I just got back from a week of backcountry skiing up in

the Monashy Mountains in British Columbia. It was the kind of trip where a bunch of friends

get flown up into the deep mountains. There's a small cabin that you can live in with some bunk beds

and then you spend a week exploring the range on skis. On nice days you get to ski to the top

mountains and ski off of them. It's pretty cool. Usually this trip feels like a lock, like everyone's

chomping at the bit to go on it, but this year was different because back in December the world was

still felt like it was upside down. I don't know if it feels any less upside down now, but it felt

particularly upside down and the idea of sort of putting down money on a trip that may or may not

happen. It was just a difficult pill to swallow because it felt like it probably wasn't going to happen.

But we ended up making the commitment and a lot of us didn't know each other. There were

friends of friends on the trip. I didn't know what to expect. It was all guys that can kind of be

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