California Governor Allows Beaches to Reopen | Active Use Only During Specific Weekday Times California Governor Gavin Newsom’s administration has approved plans to reopen Orange County beaches after he shut them down last week to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Two cities had threatened lawsuits against the Governor, and a number of protests were held at beaches against the order. Related: 2 Californian Beach Cities Vote For Legal Action Against Governor for Closing Beaches Gov […] Surf SwellBrains | May 7, 2020 1 Comment
TGR Unveils Tour Details & World Premiere For New Film Mountain Revelations With Jeremy Jones Teton Gravity Research (TGR) has announced the world premiere and tour dates for the highly anticipated film Mountain Revelations. Featuring three elite athletes from wildly different backgrounds who converge on the mountains of Alaska to share their stories, Mountain Revelations combines epic lines on steep and unforgiving terrain with equally difficult conversations and candid reflections on diversity issues in the outdoors. Mountain Revelations […] Movie Trailer SnowBrains | October 22, 2021 0 Comments
San Francisco Surfer Emma Stone, 16, Wins the Scholastic Surf Series State Championship 16-year-old Emma Stone, a San Francisco surfer representing Half Moon Bay High, just won the Scholastic Surf Series state championship at Oceanside Harbor in San Diego, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Surfing against a field of Southern California girls, representing San Clemente, La Jolla, Carlsbad, Laguna Beach and other surf havens, Stone won the shortboard division to continue an impressive […] Surf SwellBrains | May 7, 2018 0 Comments
Promising Young Californian Surfer Suffers Life-Threatening Head Injury Whilst Snowboarding A young up-and-coming Laguna Beach, CA surfer who was moving up the competitive ranks at amateur surf contests is in a medically induced coma after suffering a near-fatal head injury while snowboarding in Oregon, reports ocregister.com. Brayden Belden’s snowboarding accident happened on Feb. 20, and he was airlifted from the mountain to a hospital in nearby Bend. Doctors hurried to stabilize […] Steven Agar | February 28, 2018 0 Comments
17-Year-Old Surfer is 3rd Person to Go Missing From Santa Cruz, CA Coastline in 2-Weeks A 17-year-old is still missing after going body surfing at Laguna Creek Beach, 13-miles north of Santa Cruz, CA, on Monday. He is the third person to go missing from that stretch of coastline in two weeks. Cash Ebright was body surfing and was last seen wearing black swim trunks. Crews continue to search for Ebright around Laguna State Beach. “The ocean […] Surf SwellBrains | September 23, 2021 0 Comments
Happy Earth Day! | NASA’s Best Photos of Earth: Nasa is marking Earth Day by releasing some of its best images of our planet taken from space – by its satellites, its research aircraft and astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) – in the past year. A Sky View of Earth From Suomi NPP. This composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans was captured by six orbits of the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership spacecraft on April 9, 2015, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument. Tropical Cyclone Joalane can be seen over the Indian Ocean. Sea Ice Off East Antarctica’s Princess Astrid Coast. On April 5, 2015, the […] SnowBrains | April 22, 2020 0 Comments
Forbes Magazine: The 20 Best Places To Visit In 2020 Forbes Magazine just dropped their selection for the 20 best places to travel to next year. Our favorite is the beautiful ski town of Bariloche, Argentina. Here’s their list: 1. Amangiri/Lake Powell, Utah/Antelope Canyon, Arizona Why? The island of Sicily contains some of the most remarkable sites in the world, including the legendary Valley of the Temple, where the remains of seven […] SnowBrains | October 18, 2019 0 Comments
Big Mountains, Decent Snow and Skiing in July | Portillo, Chile Trip Report Skiing in the Southern Hemisphere is an experience. There is something about skiing fresh snow in July that doesn’t compute in your head…its supposed to be sunny, I’m supposed to be at the beach or something, but rather I’m skiing 5″ of fresh snow in late July in Chile…weird. Once you get over the mind block that says this isn’t right, its nothing but good, muy bueno. If you want to ski in the Southern Hemisphere during the North American summer you have two […] Conditions Report Jesse Cassidy | August 4, 2015 3 Comments