It’s that time of year again, time to pack your biggest backpack and hit the dusty (or rocky or indiscernible) trail for some serious trekking. But this year as you stride over the beauty that is the great outdoors, leave only quick-fading footprints in the dirt, instead of carrying with you a carbon footprint from your gear that will linger longer and contribute to the very problems our environment—which you enjoy so much—is facing. Work from the ground up with a pair of hiking boots that give equal attention to practicality and sustainability, the Patagonia Nomad hiking boots.

From a planet-preserving perspective, these Patagonia hiking boots put heavy emphasis on reusing existing materials, with a recycled insole, outsole, midsole, and footbed. In short, nearly everything on and in the Nomad was something else before it was a shoe. For the new materials earthy-friendly methods were utilized, like choosing cork—a renewable resource—for the footbed and tanning the leather in ways that meet environmental stewardship standards. Click here to read more

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