From glacier studies with High Mountain Institute to Soler Valley treks and a heroic foal rescue, it was another memorable and uplifting season at the Patagonia Frontiers ranch. View our highlights reel in photos to get inspired for your next adventure. 

After working at a foal NICU in New Zealand, workcrew member Allie Rutledge knew saving an endangered foal’s life required improvisation, teamwork, and some sleepless perseverance. Read her account of bringing a foal back from the brink of certain death in the backcountry.

I wish I could express exactly what it is that makes this place so powerful. To see me try, view our new video short (less than 3 minutes), which captures a glimpse of the magic of this valley, wrapped in an invitation to visit.

Six months after leaving the ranch, Work Crew Member Ryan J. Crawford speaks to what remains behind, and why to trust his experience but not his words.

What does it mean to be neighbors?……

Finishing filling the woodshed in anticipation of winter’s lower temperatures….

Through the calm I wade, shoes crunching on the rocks, the pebbles, then sand. Soon I'm up to my torso and with a short breath take a dive……

As the weeks march along from spring into summer, we grow accustomed to the ashy headed geese, or Canquenes, as they go about their daily affairs along the shoreline of the lake and the short-grass fields of the horse pastures. There’s squabbling…..

Chaura Vista Tundra Cake…..Best cooked over fire in back country….