Bruce Meyers was hanging out at Pismo Beach on California’s Central Coast one afternoon in 1963 when he saw something that both blew his mind and changed his life: a handful of old, stripped-down cars bouncing across the sand.
It sure would be fun to get behind the wheel of one of those, Meyers thought, if only they weren’t so ugly and didn’t appear so uncomfortable. He built his own solution: a “dune buggy” fashioned out of lightweight fiberglass mounted on four oversized tires with two bug-eyed looking headlights and a blindingly bright paint job.
The result would become both an overnight automotive sensation and one of the talismans of California surf culture, especially when he created a space in the back to … More
Two skiers navigated a thin layer of snow with no margin for error down the precipitous shoulder of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park and alternately skied and rappelled back to the valley floor in an unusually daring feat.
Jason Torlano, 45, and Zach Milligan, 40, completed the descent in five hours Sunday by carefully carving their way in crusty snow and using ropes to rappel several sections of bare rock known as the “death slabs” … More
Nyjah Huston is one of the best skateboarders in the world, with top-place finishes in over a dozen X-Games and Street League competitions. But 2021 will take him to a new stage — the Olympics — as skateboarding makes its Olympic debut in Tokyo this summer.
“I’m stoked that it’s coming to a bigger stage,” Huston told Yahoo Finance’s THE NEXT: 21 to watch in 2021. “And I’m stoked that it’s going to be in the Olympics. I think it’s … More