Cycling the West Coast: San Francisco! [Day 27-29] Woke up this morning stoked for a short 7-mile day to the historic Fort Ross. We arrived at the fort around late morning and my father and I met our relative there, who is a local to Sonoma County. Related: Cycling the West Coast: Sitting Out the Morning Rain! [Day 26] – SnowBrains Fort Ross was established by Commerce Counselor Ivan […] Cycle Luke Guilford | June 13, 2023 0 Comments
Does the Health of U.S. Cities Correlate with Their Distance to Ski Resorts? This week, Wallethub.com published its 2021 list of Healthiest & Unhealthiest Cities in America. In their report, Wallethub ranks 182 of the most populated U.S. cities by measuring them in 44 categories of what they determined to be key indicators of good health. These indicators range from the number of healthy restaurants per capita to most walking trails per capita […] Brains Liam Abbott | February 10, 2021 2 Comments
VIDEO: Blade Runner – San Francisco | Eerie Video of Apocalyptic Effect Smoke and Wildfires Are Having on California [arve url="https://youtu.be/x_m9TUP_t_Y"] Firebrains | September 11, 2020 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
San Francisco’s Dolores Hill Bomb Could Be Done For Good The skating community has lost another classic skate spot to anti-skating infrastructure. Just this week, the San Francisco city government implemented speed bumps on Dolores Hill- the location of the famous (or infamous, depending on who you ask) Dolores Hill Bomb. Related: VIDEO: These Are the Top Skateboarding Moments in the 25-Year History of the X-Games Every July, skaters from […] Crash Spencer Cox | July 24, 2020 4 Comments
Trip Report: Sailing from San Francisco, CA to Angel Island Yesterday, I sailed to Angel Island from San Francisco, CA with a few old college buddies to commemorate the passing of our very close friend and Cal Ski Team member, Eric. It’s been 4 years since Eric passed and this annual trip to Angel Island is our way of getting together, sharing memories, and honoring Eric. We left from the […] Trip Report Miles Clark | June 8, 2020 0 Comments
Dead Humpback Whale Washes Ashore at San Francisco’s Baker Beach People at San Francisco’s Baker Beach were confronted with a stomach-turning sight on Tuesday when a dead humpback whale washed up on the shore. Beachgoers are being warned to stay away from the whale’s corpse, ABC 7 News reports. RELATED: While Humans Quarantine, Animals Come Out To Play On Tuesday, scientists with the Marine Mammal Center performed a partial necropsy on […] SnowBrains | April 25, 2020 0 Comments
Thanksgiving Day Was Coldest in Over a Century in San Francisco, CA Thanksgiving Day was exceptionally cold in San Francisco, CA this year, tying with a century-old record. The high temperature was 48º, matching November 27th, 1896 as the lowest November high-temperature in recorded history, reports SFGate. The coldest high-temperature day ever in San Francisco was 35º on December 11th, 1932, a day that also holds the record low temperature ever recorded in […] WeatherBrains | December 2, 2019 0 Comments
7-TRILLION Tiny Pieces of Plastic Flow Into San Francisco Bay EVERY YEAR A comprehensive three-year study has discovered that 7 trillion tiny pieces of plastic, roughly equal to 1 million pieces each for every citizen in the Bay Area, flow into San Francisco Bay, every single year. Related: USGS Report: “It’s Raining Plastic”: Microplastics in the Mountains? The study discovered that billions of pieces of “microplastic”, defined as particles smaller than 5 […] SnowBrains | October 5, 2019 0 Comments
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