Chilling in Huatulco (Wah Too Ko) No . . . not the high rise hotel zone of the same name, but the small town where all the workers of the tourist zone live. After such a mega session of non-stop......

Eventually, I muster up the gumption to fight my way through the powerful ocean currents to be ready to snag my first wave. I watch a few sets and try to lock in my bearings. Ay de mi .......

How do you spell perfect? How do you describe the perfection of every element and every emotion? It is a dream come true for a northern California surfer transported to this warm water lineup with...

Walking the airport hallways I notice the people - so many people! I scour their faces for a mili-second of recognition. Tiny slices of their conversation drift into my audible range like a brief...

It is June 15th, 2003 at 5 PM and I am walking through round about security checks at the Mexico City Airport. Everything is just a notch below Big Brother to the north, the scanning equipment, the...

A few years ago some friends got me tickets to see the best of the Banff Mountain Film Festival playing at Campbell Hall on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara. What an...

Waking to an incredibly gorgeous bluebird Saturday the crew could not resist the temptation to get some fresh turns on the nearby locale. Sourdough Hill stood at an elevation around 7000 feet, and...

With our two scouts disappeared into the white out, the remaining six weekend warriors of the snow a glimpse at our surroundings. We were stopped in our tracks underneath a giant grove of Evergreens...

Each year the hardcore backcountry snow lovers that I call my friends use every possible method within their power to get me to join them on their forays into the Sierra Nevada wilderness....

They stand there, foreboding, haunting; almost luminescent in the late afternoon sunlight, with green chaparral shrubs and orange sandstone cliffs the divinely chosen palette of colors. They are the...

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