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Surf Stories
![Lāhainā, One Year Later](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/craig-r-0424-cc-web-hero-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A year after the worst wildfire in recent history razed the historic town of Lāhainā, the community of West Maui continues to recover and rebuild.
![The Wave below the Sleeping Rabbit](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/craig-r-0371-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
Meet the man working to save Mexico’s Punta Conejo.
![The Quest to Save 100 Waves in Peru](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/wagner-s-0001-cc-web-hero-768x432.jpg.webp)
A friendship built between waves becomes a powerful alliance for the protection of surf breaks.
![Living on Easy](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/satou-h-0003-cc-web-hero-768x576.jpg.webp)
A trip to Amami Ōshima, Japan, transports Gerry Lopez to a familiar feeling on a distant land.
![Abundance and the January Swell Bender of 2023](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/russo-d-0155-cc-web-1600x1200-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
A captain’s log from the biggest swell to hitO‘ahu’s outer reefs in recent memory.
![Brittle Stars](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/01-gr52355-whi-mike-guest-768x512.jpg.webp)
A surfer’s relationship with our fragile, changing marine environment.
![A Hog of a Swell Greets the Eddie](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/funk-c-0279-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Scenes from ground zero of the greatest surf event in seven years.
![Land of the Midnight Surf](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/jolly-c-0026-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
Inside Yakutat Surf Club’s budding stoke scene in Southeast Alaska.
![Not Just Good Surfers, Good People](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/chambers-m-0022-cc-web-768x576.jpg.webp)
There’s more to life than three-to-the-beach, surf contest results and a clean cutback.
![Point Break Medicine](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/soens-s-0346-cc-web-4x3-1-768x576.jpg.webp)
An exchange of waves and Indigenous cultural practices on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
![The Yin & Yang of Gerry Lopez](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/divine-j-0036-cc-1170x1410-1-768x926.jpeg.webp)
Der Weg zur Erleuchtung beginnt an der tödlichsten Welle der Welt.
![Pointless Beauty: The Art of Bodysurfing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/phillips-j-0008-cc-web-768x364.jpg.webp)
Where worthless and priceless collide.
![The Real Hidden Gems of the West Coast](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/vangysen-a-0025-cc-web-19x9-1-768x364.jpg.webp)
Big Mineral Mining is tearing up the coastline and restricting access to some of South Africa’s most pristine beaches and waves—and it’s getting way out of hand.
![Big-Wave Surfing: The Safety Paradox](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/craig-r-0231-cc-web-2560x1440-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Are the recent advancements in safety equipment and protocols making big-wave lineups more dangerous?
![Anchoring for Change](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/clark-l-0066-cc-web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How Captain Liz Clark’s Tahitian residency opened a new chapter in her activist work.
![The Joy of Junky Windslop](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/davis-t-2984-cc-web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Tapping into the beginner’s mind while teaching his daughter to surf.
![Biirrinba is Life](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/parker-g-0001-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Childhood friends, Hayley Talbot and Dan Ross, are determined to save a mighty river.
![Carving Space for More Black Surfers](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/tran-a-0001-cc-web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Building positivity, inspiration and purpose out of a racist encounter in Los Angeles.
![A New Surf Culture](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/macleod-g-0001-cc-web-768x432.jpg.webp)
This Great Lakes surfer never felt represented in the surf scene, so she created a new surf culture of her own.
![Garbage Bins for the Ocean](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/foley_ryan_0050_cc_web-2250x1265-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Seasoned waterman, master woodworker and Patagonia Surf Ambassador Ben Wilkinson channels his skills toward a new environmental calling.
![On Letting Go](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/heeckeren_j_0348_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Ramón Navarro and Kohl Christensen bring Léa Brassy into the jaws of a Chilean monster.
![A Pandemic Can’t Stop MeWater](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/johnson_jeff_2798_cc_web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How a nonprofit that takes San Francisco kids surfing expanded its work in 2020.
![Connected by Water](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/pompermayer_f_0059_cc_web-1920x2560-1-768x1024.jpg.webp)
Sion Miloskys Tod in Mavericks im Jahr 2011 war für die gesamte Big-Wave-Surfing-Community ein herber Verlust. Wieder einmal musste ein talentierter Surfer sein Leben lassen. Es war ein Weckruf.
![The Return of a Surf Classic](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/web_large-wb_391_bielmann-2800x1575-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Coauthor Kim McCoy recounts discovering the mystery of what lies beneath the waves, where ocean and land meet and compete.
![The Life-Saving Nature of Foam](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/craig_r_0246_cc_web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
A look into surfing’s impact vests and the people they’ve brought back home.
![The Eddie Must Go (On)](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/soens_s_0075_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Clyde Aikau on why the most culturally significant big-wave event in surfing will always matter.
![Dead Friends and Ocean Risk Management](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/craig_r_0201_cc_web-16x9-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Kohl Christensen discusses how BWRAG came to be and his recent near-death experience courtesy of Pipeline's reef.
![The Environmental Irony of Surfing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/craig_r_0185-2160x1215-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Dave Rastovich and Greg Long log in and discuss the current state of surfing, it’s cultural and ecological impacts, and where it’s headed.
![The Environmental Irony of Surfing](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/craig_r_0185-2160x1215-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Dave Rastovich and Greg Long log in and discuss the current state of surfing, it’s cultural and ecological impacts, and where it’s headed.
![Into the Deep End](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/aeder_e_0056_cc_web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
Meet Annie Reickert, the 18-year-old Maui charger Paige Alms is mentoring in the Jaws lineup and beyond.
![Net Positive](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/westermeyer_a_0006_cc_web-2250x1266-1-768x432.jpg.webp)
How discarded plastic fishing nets found their way into our hat brims.
![The Unridden](https://www.patagonia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/tsuchiya_h_0001_cc_web-768x432.jpg.webp)
If you don’t get what you came for, be sure to enjoy the ride.