How Landlocked Idaho Became A Leader In Urban Surfing

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Boise's wave park is attracting outdoor adventurers—and the innovative public works project is inspiring other cities

The Laird Hamilton Interview: Surviving and Thriving by Keeping it Simple

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At 61, Laird Hamilton has entered a different stage of life. But he still charges harder than most surfers you know. He survives, and thrives, on simplicity

A Surf Legend’s Long Ride

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Jock Sutherland’s childhood home, on Oahu’s North Shore, was a picturesque ruin when he brought me there. It was built after the attack on Pearl Harbor: a wooden barracks at the water’s edge, part of the military’s frantic preparations for a second attack.

An Olympic Champion Goes in Search of a New Identity

There is a shelf at Carissa Moore’s home in Honolulu where she keeps her journals. She has carried blank pages around the globe since she was a little girl, scribbling her thoughts and worries and goals as she became one of the best surfers in the world. She still does it.

How I Transformed Myself Into a Chill Ocean Girl

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Heading out the door? Read this article on the Outside app available now on iOS devices for members! Download the app. At 8:30 P.M., Liam arrived in his eighties Jeep Wrangler. It was dark, but passing headlights allowed me to spot his wavy hair and goddamn fraternity sweatshirt.

Can’t Tell an A-Frame from a Poo Stance? Try the Encyclopedia of Surfing

The New Yorker

Namotu, Fiji, is a two-acre island in the South Pacific, a few nautical miles from the island depicted in “Cast Away” (“Wiiillllson!”) and the islands where “Survivor” is filmed, hard by the famous surf spot known as Cloudbreak.

She Steals Surfboards by the Seashore. She’s a Sea Otter.

For the past few summers, numerous surfers in Santa Cruz, Calif., have been victims of a crime at sea: boardjacking. The culprit is a female sea otter, who accosts the wave riders, seizing and even damaging their surfboards in the process.

Casual Luke Rides the Big Wave

GQ

The most remarkable day of Luke Shepardson’s life started in traffic. So much traffic. An unmoving, unending line of cars tracing the wild blue coast of the North Shore of Oahu.

Shelby Stanger Rides a Life-Changing Wave

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A Case of the Disappearing Waves

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — As a kid, Zander Morton grew up surfing some of the most storied waves in the American South.

Bellyboarding, Handplanes, and Paipos: A Look at Fringe Surfing

The Inertia

Some time ago, shortly after watching old footage of Peter Crawford absolutely ripping on a kneeboard, I attempted my own entry into the world of alternative craft. Living on the North Shore, breaks are often crowded, and even on the most epic of days, the experience can feel… well… mainstream.

A Big-Wave Photographer Faces Frigid Water, Sharks and Currents to Get the Shot

When a run of massive winter swell is forecast at Mavericks, the iconic big-wave surf break 25 miles south of San Francisco, Sachi Cunningham is typically up in the pre-dawn darkness, pulling on her wet suit and readying her camera gear.

Legendary Hawaii surf photographer captures his own epic final moments

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaii is mourning the loss of an iconic local surf photographer. Just weeks after filming water shots at the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational Larry Haynes unexpectedly passed away after a surfing session on Thursday, Feb. 9.

I’m a Big Wave Surfer, and I’ve Never Seen Anything Like What I Saw This Year

SOQUEL, Calif. — Throughout my 20-plus years of surfing big waves, I’ve experienced some amazing moments in and around the ocean. I’ve witnessed carnage and chaos, joy and jubilation, events that have been seared into my subconscious and that I believe will stay with me until my dying day.

A Beach Lifeguard Just Won the Super Bowl of Big Wave Surfing

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A Longtime Surf Competition Went Virtual During the Pandemic. Organizers Kept It That Way.

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Inside One of the Craziest Long Weekends of Lifeguard Rescues in Oahu History

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Nearly 50, surfing icon Slater wins in Hawai’i

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On Day 3 of the Winter Olympics, America's biggest victory might have come not on a frozen halfpipe in China, but in the warm waves of the Banzai Pipeline, thousands of miles away in Hawai'i. The win belonged to Kelly Slater, the surfing great who turns 50 on Friday.

‘Other surfers respect me’: the 92-year-old still riding waves in New Zealand

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Nancy Meherne lives a simple life by the sea, gardening and riding the soft, mellow waves at Scarborough Beach just a couple of blocks from her house.