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Fear and Mavericks
Ability Level: Nothing short of Flea, Laird, or Neptune (Flea and Laird being two of the best big-wave surfers in the world; Neptune being a god.
High Fives
I knew that I was not going to be the only winter enthusiast to suffer a life-altering injury so it made sense to create a non-profit for the healing of other injured athletes in the snow-sports industry.
Winter Fitness
Nobody chooses to do this, but it just becomes the path of least resistance as the weather gets colder and the holiday season tempts us to “eat, drink, and be merry” with friends and family on a near daily basis.
River People Share the Stoke
There are even training clinics to help you get prepared! The water is Class I with a handful of Class II riffles and constant current.
Bikes and Brews
While this list is far from exhaustive, the following is a regional breakdown of some watering holes that shouldn’t be missed.
Women on Waves is Returning to Capitola
WOW passed through the hands of various producers.
World's Toughest Half Triathlon
At least that is what Brad Kearns thought when he started the Auburn Triathlon eleven years ago in the town that is famous for being the finish of the Tevis Cup endurance horse race and one of the toughest long distance running races in America, the Western States 100, both of which travel from Squaw Valley to Auburn.
The Dawn of a Golden Age for California Singletrack?
While there is a huge amount of public land and miles of trails easily accessible from most points in the Bay Area, many parks and trails are closed to mountain bikers.
ASJ's first radio commercial
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Adventurous Women
They all focus on how the physical challenge of doing something exciting helped them work through the personal issues they were facing in their lives.
Death Valley Canyoneering
A cairn anchor is just what it sounds like: a pile of rocks, the sort of thing that might mark an off-trail route, with a sling poking out.
Danger Pay
By Neil Pearlberg .
Bike Touring Steinbeck Country
Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses.
2013 AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA ROUTE ANNOUNCED
Amgen returns as the title sponsor for the heralded 8-stage race, set for May 12 to 19, 2013.
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour
Be/lH37yetq-7E Santa Cruz February 22, 23 & 24, 2013 University of California Physical Education and Recreation 831-459-2159 or 831-459-2806 kferraro@ucsc.