Four Epic Rides From Pumping Puerto Escondido, May 17th
Starring Jojo Roper, Greg Long, Marcial Monreal and Kurt Rist.
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Vid: Jaciel Santiago
Puerto Escondido has been pumping on and off for what seems like a very long time now – and there’s a bigger swell on the way to finish off the week. And while Monday morning wasn’t crazy XXL or anything, it did offer up some solid, clean tubes for locals and visitors alike. Featured here are some of the best waves of the day, as ridden by Jojo Roper, Greg Long, Marcial Monreal and Kurt Rist. [Promo photo: Greg Long by Edwin Morales.]
Behind the Lens During A Banner NorCal Winter With Sachi Cunningham
Local photog on this wild season, shooting around home at Mav s and Ocean Beach
Photo: Krista Brenner Photography
Local photog on this wild season, shooting around home at Mav s and Ocean Beach
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Editor’s note: In honor of International Women’s Day, we’ll be rolling out a week’s worth of stories one each day from March 8-14 that celebrate and showcase contributions women have made to the sport, lifestyle and culture of surfing. (And yeah: we’ll continue to do so in the weeks and months ahead.)
Roughly one mile out to sea, somewhere between Pillar Point Harbor and the No. 3 buoy, Dan Stuckey found something unusual.
Stuckey, a seasoned fisherman on the Coastside for more than 30 years, was crabbing on the morning of Jan. 11 when he came across an abandoned surfboard drifting in the open ocean. The board was adorned in colorful handprints and written messages. Stuckey suspected it was no ordinary board.
âJust looking at it, I could see all the comments about kids with cancer, so I knew there was something special right away,â Stuckey said.
It turned out the 10-by-6-foot surfboard belonged to Jojo Roper, a professional surfer from San Diego. Roperâs board is covered with drawings and messages from cancer patients, families, nurses and doctors from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego. Roper began a tradition of visiting the center in 2018, letting staff and children paint the board on each visit. At the end of each winter seaso
Watch Now: A Raucous Intermission at Killers
Between XXL Maverick’s and XXL Hawaii, Todos Santos seduced a handful of the big-wave elite.
Greg Long. Photo: Billy Watts
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On Sunday, January 10th, as an XXL swell peaked at Maverick’s, the initial forerunners from the same storm manifested some 1,500 miles away at Baja Mexico’s legendary big-wave spot: Killers, Todos Santos. Though the nearshore buoys were already slam-dancing well before dawn on Monday, January 11th, the action was slow as a high tide forced a two-hour lull.
By the time the tide bottomed out mid-afternoon, Killers was pumping. The same high pressure system that kept the storm away from Maverick’s also helped ensure a clean arrival here in Mexico for the long-period energy, which wasn’t getting jammed up by any local, short-period swell. The sun was shining and the winds were light and variable all day long. Fresh out of the brine after a demented dream run at Maverick