Yvon Chouinard is the founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc., based in Ventura, California.

• Preface
• Minutes¿Southern California Falconry Club
• Lessons from the Edge
• Letter to Dave and Ann Croft
• Introduction to Climbing and Surfing in the 1950s
• Remember That Big Storm
• The Master¿s Apprentice
• The North Wall of Mount Edith Cavell
• Quarter Dome ¿ North Face
• Modern Yosemite Climbing
• Sentinel Rock: A New Direct North Wall Route
• Personal Notes from the North American Wall
• Muir Wall ¿ El Capitan
• Letter to Malinda Pennoyer
• Fun Hogs
• Thoughts on Climbing in the Kaisergeberg
• Coonyard Mouths Off
• Das Tent
• Letter to Ken Wilson, Mountain Magazine, Chouinard Cerro Torre
• On Tump Lines
• All That Glitters Isn¿t Gold
• Coonyard Mouths Off ¿ Part II
• Salsipuedes
• Excerpts from Climbing Ice
• My Life on Ice
• The Myth of Powder
• Pinhead¿s Progress
• One-Way Trip on the Clarks Fork
• `Opihi Man by Claire Chouinard and The Rest of the Story
• Dear Mum
• The Secret Weapon
• Seaweed Salad
• Attack of the Killer Limpets
• Eat da Bait!
• Bad Day at Flat Rock
• Further Adventures with the Atoll Man: A Month at Sea and on Land
• Foreword to No Bad Waves
• Dear Claire
• A Miracle in Calcutta
• Dear Mister President
• Why Voting Is Not a Waste of Time
• An Introduction to Glenn Exum
• Memorial for Dick Pownal
• Eulogy for Bruce Hill
• Why a Tools Conference, Patagoniäs Tools for Grassroots Activist
• We Lost a Chief ¿ Doug Tompkins
• Measuring Time
• The Minestrone Hatch
• Sucker Cakes
• Bhutan Brown Trout
• The Pack
• A Good Skunking
• Lessons from a Simple Fly
• Threats to Coldwater Fisheries
• The Responsible Economy
• Do Good
• Zen Lessons