Photo by John Durant Rusty Preisendorfer shaped his first surfboard in La Jolla during the winter of 1969. Forty thousand boards later, he's a household name around the world, and this month he's being inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame. We asked the San Diegan to tell us what he's learned over the years.
The Dakar Rally and Racing the Planet are the world’s top two endurance competitions, says Time magazine — and both were won by South Africans. CLAYTON TRUSCOTT found out how Giniel de Villiers and Ryan Sandes beat all odds to win in the world’s toughest adventure competitions.
Shark attacks have increased radically over the past two decades. No arguing that. But the reason for the spike is up for debate. Anton Louw and Clayton Truscott take opposite sides of the table.
Alien-looking landscape on the park's Barker Dam trail. There are few things as graceless as someone begging for help with pure and unbridled fear in their eyes. Which about sums up my position at Indian Cove Campground during the waning hours of a Friday afternoon, as I peered over the ledge of a house-sized boulder.
Photos by Marina Chavez and Taryn Kent As the myth of Joshua Tree's allure has solidified over time, there's been an influx of artists and industry professionals who've relocated to the Joshua area. The result has been an emergence of prime rental properties situated within easy reach of the national park.
Our plan was to explore the Southern bend of the island, venturing east along the coast as far as we could find waves. With localism being a leading concern, we wanted to maintain a low profile and blend in where possible
Hype is in the air for Prime Day IV, tentatively bookmarked for July 16 according to an accidental (or maybe not-so-accidental) from Amazon UK.
Mauritius is home to a collection of world class waves, but the notorious locals dubbed 'the white shorts' have made things unpleasant for many surfers who have visited. Back in 2015, after returning from his ninth trip to the Indian Ocean island, Craig Jarvis shared a few '
Brian Fahmie holds a sketch for his exciting new concept. But don't steal-it's patented. | Photo by Robert Benson The concept of playing a life-sized video game, where you're able to physically enter the surreal worlds depicted on TV screens, has been in our collective imagination for a long time.
Adam is almost two years old. He speaks a mix of English and his own made-up words. Each day he gets more confident. At night, his parents read to him from books with big pictures and words. This is helping him learn the names of animals, colors. Things like that.
In my twenties, I wrote a lot about traveling with kids and pets. I didn't have any of my own, but that didn't stop me from churning out articles by the dozen. Top 10's, How To's, online features, all delivered with confidence and a sense of resolve.
Mother Nature can be a cruel when it comes to surf trips. There are times when you've done all the hard work: studied a location's history of swell activity, scrutinized the barometric trends down to last hectopascal, and planned your vacay during the optimal period for swell size and direction...