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Meaghen Brown
Meaghen Brown is a writer and editor at Patagonia. Her work has previously appeared in Outside Magazine, Vogue, Wired, Marie Claire and The New Yorker among other places.
![Made to Work](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/syui-m-hokulea-sketch-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A short history of gear designed for very specific reasons.
![Run for Something](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/romey-m-0002-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Footprints Running Camp is as much about finding solutions to the climate crisis as it is about running.
![All You Can Do](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/graefe-l-0001-cc-web-2250x2250-1-768x768.jpg.webp)
There’s so much. An interview with the co-editors of All We Can Save.
![Photo: Tim Davis](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/davis_t_2735-768x432.jpg.webp)
85% of Patagonia’s polyester this season is recycled. Using recycled polyester, rather than virgin petroleum polyester, reduced our seasonal carbon emissions by over 5,600 metric tons of CO₂e.
![The Art of Loss: How Zaria Forman Draws Stunningly Realistic Polar Ice](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/nov19_01a_forman_zoria_0001-1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
It’s fascinating to hear Zaria Forman talk about ice, especially the way that it sounds. She describes the way it rumbles and thunders and cracks, even when you can’t see anything. It crackles and pops like breakfast cereal on high volume. “Ice crispies,” she calls it. “It’s a really beautiful sound.” Polar ice is possibly…
![A Very Large, Long Group Run Through the Bob Marshall Wilderness](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/gnam_s_0428_cc_feb19_1600tcl-768x424.jpg.webp)
For the slo-mo, bug-bitten, exhausted joy of really long runs. Time expands and compresses on long runs. Moments of navigation or extended discomfort can seem endless, while the landscape sifts by like a slow-moving picture. And then suddenly it’s been hours that slipped by without you noticing, except for the subtle changes in light and…
![Home Run: How the Braford Family Connects by Foot](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/gnam08511600TCL1600x883-768x424.jpg.webp)
Some families share religion, camping, lavish vacations, opera. Other families go running.
![Dispatches from the Edge of the World: Making “Takayna” in Tasmania](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/schaefer_m_1839_cc_WEB_1600TCL-768x424.jpg.webp)
The wind at the edge of the world comes in clean and cold. Without any significant landmass to temper its force, it rips across the 40th latitude and slams into the prefab houses that straddle the tiny seaside township of Arthur River where we’re staying. It strains against the windows and coats the logs stacked…
![Professional orienteer and wilderness advocate Hanny Allston runs near one of the entry points to the takayna / Tarkine region. Photo: Mikey Schaefer](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/schaefer_m_1848_cc_SUM18_cc_WEB_1600TCL-768x424.jpg.webp)
It starts with the focal beam of a headlamp. Sunrise is more than an hour away and it’s pouring rain. Hands tucked into the sleeves of a jacket, and the pace already quick through the sharp Tasmanian buttongrass—trying to stay warm. There is an urgency to understand this threatened place, to know takayna / Tarkine as…