Gear Fixed To Help Save The Planet

Patagonia’s Worn Wear repair vehicles are on the road this winter, travelling to mountain towns and snow events across Europe for the Patagonia Worn Wear Snow Tour 2025.

The rolling repair shops will travel to snow destinations across the Alps and the UK, Patagonia’s repair team onboard will offer free repairs on any brand of clothing, on a first come, first served basis.

Skiers and snowboarders can bring in busted zippers, rips, tears, buttons, pulls and more. On top of free repairs, the Patagonia team will be teaching skiers and riders how to fix their own gear, helping to extend the life of what they already own and keeping more clothing out of landfill.

Patagonia’s wooden trailer that houses its repair shop has been hand-built to be able to travel to the toughest locations around Europe. It will house technical repair equipment and will bring hot chocolate and good vibes to the slopes. The Worn Wear repair team will also educate people on how to keep snow gear in good condition for multiple seasons and will teach skills such as patching, re-waterproofing shells and fixing zippers. Find your local stop of the repair tour here.

The company’s Worn Wear programme was created in 2013 to encourage people to take good care of their gear, washing and repairing as needed.   Extending the life of our garments, through proper care and repair, is the single most important thing we can do to lower our impact on the planet and reduces the need to buy more over time, thereby avoiding the CO2 emissions, waste output, and water usage required to build it.   By keeping our clothing in use just nine extra months, we can reduce related carbon, waste and water footprints by 20-30 percent each, according to the UK-based group WRAP – simply because we’re making and throwing away less.  To scale repairs across Europe, Patagonia has partnered with the United Repair Centre and opened repair facilities in Amsterdam, London and Paris with the goal of repairing 100,000 pieces of clothing per year by 2028.

Over 30 Worn Wear Repair events were hosted throughout Europe last year with Worn Wear teams able to fix more than 2,300 pieces of clothing. In total, Patagonia was able to repair more than 35,000 pieces of clothing in Europe in 2025. Globally, more than 110 repair locations fix Patagonia clothing for free, or for a nominal charge.

Worn Wear Snow Tour Dates

United Kingdom 

•            13-15 February – Fort William, United Kingdom 

•            20-22 February – Aviemore, United Kingdom 

France 

•            26-27 February – Val d’Isere, France 

•            1-3 March – Avoriaz, France 

•            8-10 March – Les Arcs, France 

Italy 

•            6-8 March – Santa Caterina Valfurva, Italy 

•            13-15 March – Montespluga, Italy 

Germany, Austria & Switzerland 

•            14-15 March – Salzburg, Austria 

•            20-21 March – Regensburg, Germany 

•            24-26 March – Verbier, Switzerland 

•            27-29 March – Pontresina, Switzerland 

Scandinavia 

•            4-5 March – Levi, Finland 

•            7-8 March – Ruka, Finland