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San Diego, CA Lifeguard Killed After Traumatic Neck Injury While Surfing in Mexico

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Blake Dresner, a 24-year-old North San Diego County lifeguard, was killed after suffering a “traumatic surfing injury” at the Playa Abierta beach break, in Mexico last week. Today, Monday 24th August, the Encinitas community is gathering at Moonlight Beach at 10 am to honor the life of the 24-year-old surfer. Dresner was in Salina Cruz, Mexico with his closest friends when […]
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Powerful 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southern Mexico This Morning, Tsunami Warning Issued

People living on the Pacific Coast of southern Mexico awoke to the earth trembling this morning, followed by a startling tsunami warning after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake hit in the state of Oaxaca.  That’ll get you out of bed. Fox News reports that the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 and struck at 11:29 a.m. […]
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World Renowned Californian Free Solo Climber Falls to His Death in Mexico

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A world-renowned Californian free solo climber has died attempting to descend the side of a cliff in northern Mexico. 31-year-old Brad Gobright, from Orange County, fell around 1,000 ft to his death in El Potrero Chico. His climbing partner Aidan Jacobson, 26, also fell but survived with injuries. Gobright is famous for free soloing, but the pair were rappelling at the […]
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Freeride Mountain Bike Star Jordie Lunn Has Died of a Head Injury After Crashing in Mexico

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Reports are coming in that famous Canadian mountain bike freerider, Jordie Lunn, 36 has died of a head injury. He apparently crashed while riding in Mexico with Darren Berrecloth, Greg Watts and Brayden Barrett-Hay. YT’s bio of Jordie on their website sums him up perfectly: If we’re talking about crazy riders, the name of the Roughneck from Parksville, BC is bound […]
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Freak Hail Storm Buries Vehicles Under 5-FEET of Ice in Mexican City of Guadalajara

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  Cars were buried… Credit: Protección Civil JAL  A freak hailstorm hit the Mexican city of Guadalajara over the weekend, burying cars and swamping streets with up to 5-feet of ice. Sunday’s hail came after several days of warm and dry weather, with temperatures of 90ºF. The Mexican army has been helping city workers clear the streets, said Jalisco state governor Enrique […]
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Brain Post: How The Gold Rush Killed 10,000 Grizzly Bears in California + The History of the California State Flag

The conversation regarding reintroducing grizzly bears to California, and other states, is back on the table, so we thought we’d revisit the history of grizzlies in California. I mean, they’re on the state flag, so they must have a symbiotic relationship, right? California Grizzly Bears (Ursus arctos californicus), or California Golden Bears, were once ubiquitous in California.  There were Grizzlies […]
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Storm Aletta off Mexico is the First Hurricane of this Year’s Season | Won’t Hit Land

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June 1st marked the start of the hurricane season, and exactly a week in storm Aletta has become the first hurricane of the 2018 season  Update: We now have a category 4 storm in the pacifichttps://t.co/pTbIU2Ii0F https://t.co/MaoRwyIFdn — NWS (@NWS) June 8, 2018 Aletta is currently a category four storm, traveling with max winds of 120 miles per hour south […]
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Hurricane Patricia = Strongest Storm EVER Recorded & Hitting Mexico Today

“Patricia is the strongest hurricane on record in the National Hurricane Center’s area of responsibility (AOR) which includes the Atlantic and the eastern North Pacific basins.” National Hurricane Center today Hurricane Patricia was measured today to be the strongest storm ever measured on planet Earth and it’s headed straight to Mexico.  Meteorologists are forecasting 40-foot waves on the Mexican coast […]
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VIDEO: Big Wave Wipeout of the Year

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Puerto Escondido, Mexico is a legendary place for enormous, tubing waves. The best big wave surfers swarm to the place when big swells roll in. This past May, Puerto got huge and Tom Lowe of Cornwall, England was there see it. Tom did more than just see it, though. He took this vicious free-fall wipeout and put himself into legendary wipeout status. This video is already an entry for the “Wipeout of the Year” of the 2016 WSL Big Wave Awards and most likely, it’ll win. There isn’t really any topping this wipeout. This is about as bad as it could possibly go. “Tom Lowe (Cornwall, England) at Puerto Escondido, Mexico on May 3, 2015. Video […]
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High Altitude Skiing in Mexico

Holly Walker, a friend and fellow ski mountaineer, approached me this summer with the idea of skiing in Mexico. I immediately said: “That is the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard… When do we leave?” So in November I found myself in Mexico with a huge ski bag and a harebrained scheme to ski the 3rd highest peak in North America, Pico De Orizaba. Most people looked at me quizzically when I explained this plan to them…”you can ski in Mexico?”. The answer is yes!…sort of. […]
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