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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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