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If you’re looking to find moments of escape or simply want to absorb the joys of being outside and in the water, taking up surfing might just be the solitary activity to consider. Take it from Ann Kim ...

On a breezy Sunday evening in April, about a dozen men and women were floating on blue foam noodles in a mineral pool at Two Bunch Palms, a quaint spa in Desert Hot Springs. Beneath gently swaying ...

We stood on the beach, names barely known, and spilled our hearts onto the sand. One woman had just ended an engagement. Another had just turned 50. Another had just gone through “the year from hell,” ...

Just a few years ago, the gear options available to women surfers were woefully lacking. But a new crop of brands is beginning to change this — with pieces designed specially for women surfers, by ...

I’m standing with my surfboard on the beach in Pichilemu, Chile. It’s January—the height of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer—the sun is out, and there’s a near-constant breeze rolling in off the ...