Great Chemistry

Nearly a decade ago, Patagonia and the GORE-TEX brand started toward an impossible goal: To remove water-repelling perfluorinated chemicals, better known as PFCs and PFAS, from the waterproof fabrics in our outerwear without compromising performance. Well, we did it—and set an entirely new standard for technical shells. Like big-mountain objectives where there’s always another, we won’t quit until we remove all these chemicals from every element of our gear. Forever.