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Crystal Mountain Snowboarding- a Great Father and Son Experience

No stress, except for trying to keep up with the little guy who just wants to conquer the world. Like father, like son!

(CRYSTAL MOUNTAINS, Wash.) - I have been a surfer for over 42 years and my son Evan who is now 11, never caught on to the one love of my life. Instead, he chose to be a skater dude and he is a pretty good one at that.

However, we moved to Washington from California a little over a year ago and his skating time has been declining due to poor weather and logistics of indoor parks.

Garrett McNamara Sets New World Record for Largest Wave Ever Surfed

Recognized as one of the top elite big wave paddle surfers and towsurfers in the world today, G-Mac is known for many things in surfing.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Garrett McNamara has set a new world record for the largest wave ever surfed.

Oregon Surfer, Bobby Gumm Has Dramatic White Shark Encounter

"It was the heaviest thing I ever saw in the water in my 42 years of surfing.” - South Beach Ron Clifford Towsurfer.com/Big-Wave Addicts News

(SOUTH BEACH, Ore.) - One second you're on your surfboard, and the next you're under attack from a 2,000 Great White shark. It's the last thing local South Beach surfer Bobby Gumm expected when he hit the waves Sunday afternoon in calm conditions.

`Big-Wave Addicts` Debuts on YouTube`s TowsurferNetwork

“It’s like being a drug addict. We can never get enough and we’re always looking for our next fix which in this case is that next big swell...” - Eric Akiskalian

(GIG HARBOR, Wash.) - 12 years ago, Eric Akiskalian took his surfing career to the next level and began chasing big waves and created Towsurfer.com.

Now 51-years old, not only is he passionate about chasing and riding giant swells all over the globe but he’s equally passionate about promoting the sport of big-wave surfing and all the big-wave addicts that charge these colossal waves along with him.

Local Venice Beach Surfers Rescue Baby Great White Shark

Shark saviors in the South Bay...

(VENICE BEACH, Calif.) - A baby great white shark caught with a fishing pole from Venice Beach pier was brought to shore by locals, and one actually took out the hook and set the shark back out to sea.

The video is incredible, and it is a fact that very few such occurrences have ever been recorded. A man who has not been identified actually places his hand inside the mouth of the baby Great White in order to pull the hook out.

Surfrider Images Benefit
`Intriguing, fun, relevant, thoughtful and beautiful`

CEO Jim Moriarty to show 125 iPhone prints at San Pedro, CA gallery as benefit for Surfrider.

(SAN PEDRO) - Surfrider Foundation CEO Jim Moriarty is showing 125 8x8 Giclee prints at Gallery Neuartig at 366 W. 7th St. in San Pedro, CA on Saturday, 9 July 2011, from 7:00-9:00 p.m.

This very unique show benefits the Surfrider Foundation. Each of the 125 prints will be sold through a silent auction format starting $100. The Surfrider Foundation is a grassroots non-profit environmental organization that works to protect and preserve the world's oceans, waves, and beaches.

51-Year-Old Santa Barbara Native, Eric Akiskalian Amongst Elite Nominees and Winners

Eric has also become the oldest big-wave surfer to ever be nominated in the history of the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards in this category.

(SANTA BARBARA) - Nominated for the first time ever in the Biggest Wave Category was Salem-News writer Eric Akiskalian, who was towed into a behemoth of a wave in Oregon by his partner Keith Galbraith during a massive NW swell last November.

Bring Surfing to the People of the Gaza Strip

Your chance to help people live like you.

(SALEM / GAZA CITY) - We always try to bring our readers stories about surfing.

But seldom are they like this article, where Gaza Correspondent Ken O'Keefe, reminds us of the incredible shore facing this war torn strip of land.

Nominees Announced in the 11th Annual Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards

Greatest Rides and Biggest Waves of the Last Year to be Honored in April.

(NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.) - Nominees have been announced for the 2011 Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards fueled by Monster Energy.

It is shaping up to be another spectacular showdown of surfing’s greatest rides and riders witnessed over the last 12 months.

Marcio Freire Interview: Maui`s Underground Big-Wave Charger

Whether Marcio is with his friends or by himself, he always finds his way into the channel and right under the hook of the biggest and meanest Pe’ahi waves he can find.

(MAUI, Hawaii ) - Marcio Freire is a handsome native Brazilian who came to Hawaii 12 years ago with the intent to learn the Hawaiian Culture and surf the biggest waves he could on the outer reefs of Oahu and Maui.

His radiant energy filled with warmness makes you want to just ‘Hawaiian Hug’ this handsome ‘Gentle Beast’.