If the first 50 years were an experiment, to prove that a business could be

responsible and successful, turns out it's not just possible. It's profitable. So

what's next? What's next is simple. It's human power and it's finding the joy

in doing difficult things. What's next is turning capitalism on its head and

putting all our money where our mouth is. What's next is unstoppable. For nearly

50 years Patagonia has given a damn about people and the environment. Find

more at Patagonia.com slash stories.

You're listening to the Dirt Pack Daries, a production of duct tape-len beer with

additional support from Kuwait because you love your bike. AG1, foundational

nutrition that supports whole body health and aura frames. The Wi-Fi connected

digital picture frame. I wanted to ask Santa to bring me a girlfriend for

Christmas. It would take nothing less than a Christmas miracle and flying

reindeer to meet a girl out here. I was a seasonal guide at a remote camp next to

a glacier in rural Alaska. No road access, a tiny wind generator, an outhouse,

an unheated cabin's barely bigger than garden sheds. Camp said bullseye at the

end of a giant wind tunnel called the Lynn Canal. Not actually a canal but

the longest and deepest fjord in North America. Winters piled enough snow in the

mountains to create some of the largest non-polar ice fields on earth. Hurricane

force winds regularly tore through the fjord and the Pacific dump

torrential rains swelling the coastal forest to biblical proportions. I was

surrounded by brown bears, moose, wolves, sea lions, wolverines, whales, and

ten other men. The glacier point wilderness safari is a popular remote day to

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