Fetched Up in Amber

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Feature • 19 min read

For Proto-Los Angeles surf star Mike Purpus, today feels a hell of a lot like 1974.

By Joe Donnelly

Volume 31 Issue 6 (2022)

35.5
Cool Culture

Chris Carter, the former Surfing magazine editor…

By Travis Ferré
35.4
Four Days in Hibernia

A transatlantic gamble in Ireland.

By Grant Ellis
35.3
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South Shore ripper turned pro angler Matty Wong…

By Whitman Bedwell
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Short fiction from 1967.

By John Milius

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Volume 31 Issue 6

In this issue

On the cover: Mason Ho, mid-expectoration at Backdoor. Photo by Shane Grace. Viewpoints inside the magazine include the mindset of a big-wave bodysurfer, North Shore snaps by a skateboard icon, a chase for birds and swell in Southern Europe, the arrested development of a 1970s surfing playboy, the purist standards of a big-board surfer and shaper, impressionistic brushstrokes, and organics ringed by hyper development.

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