I was like, no, there are other teens.

I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life.

When I was 16 years old, I took off and drove across the country to Wyoming.

Went into the Wind River Range and discovered mountains.

In 1973, Yvonne Chinard founded Patagonia.

I never wanted to be a businessman.

All I wanted to do was do my craft and climb mountains.

So then I had to figure out a way to where I was going to be a businessman, but I was going

to do it completely on my own terms.

Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, inspire and implement solutions to the environmental

crisis.

Join us at Patagonia.com.

Welcome to the Dirt Back Diaries, a duct tape and beer production, with additional support

from New Belgium Brewing, Kuat Racks and Chaco.

Committed.

It's a word we use to describe people we know, our friends, even ourselves, committed to

a sport, a ski line, an ethic, a lifestyle.

He used to see a guy running in a neighborhood at 11 o'clock at night, and I think, man,

that guy, I couldn't do that.

That guy might say the same thing when he'd see me loading my skis in their truck at 5am

to go skiing before work.

We were both sacrificing some element of normal and committing to a larger goal that drove

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