The Caretaker of Intangible Ingredients

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Feature • 15 min read

The personal quiver of San Diego’s Harry “Skip” Frye.

By Chris Ahrens

Volume 26 Issue 4 (2017)

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Volume 26 Issue 4

In this issue

We frame the combat and surf photography of photojournalist Nic Bothma, sketch in the dimensions of Skip Frye’s personal quiver, and go horseback on an expedition through the wilds of Chile. Long reads by Kimball Taylor (on the current state of bodyboarding) and Jamie Brisick (with a haunting essay on love, death, and Brazilian shore-pound) add depth and shading.

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