On July 12th the dreaded yellow and black “Warning Shark Sighted” signs appeared at the bottom of the hill at blacks beach. No authorities were available for comment, but the coconut wireless is spreading rumors of a large shark of unknown...
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Welcome to our first installment of Blacks Beach Profiles, by Michael “Silent Mike” Schoaff. In this inaugural story, we feature a senior veteran surfer who’s been surfing Blacks consistently since the 1980’s. He’s owned and operated a family...
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Surf Team Cleans Up and Dough Momma’s Pizza Delivers!
The UCSD Surf Team held a beach cleanup on Saturday May 21 at Blacks Beach.
More than a dozen team members showed up, not just with their boards and wetsuits but also with trash bags,...
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Ryan is a San Diego native, a former professional surfer and he brings to the board a unique connection to San Diego surf industry, culture, and community. He’s a graduate of SDSU and is a Vice President/ Partner at Voit Real Estate Services in La...
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Pack It In! Pack It Out! – Kook’s Litter
plastic bottle caps create a barefoot minefield at the beach entrance
spent beer cans encircle a deserted self-extinguished shoreline bonfire
saturated cigarette butts...
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Sometime overnight on Thursday September 23rd a second dead seal washed up on shore at Blacks Beach. The dawn patrol walk up the beach on the following morning smelt immediately and distinctively of death as you came to the end of Black Gold Road. The...
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The three organizations come together for a Beach Clean up and Surfing Lesson for Outdoor Outreach members with and emphasis on improving the places where we play. Groups will meet at the Blacks Beach Main Trailhead at the Sundt Memorial Gate, the large...
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Bright moonlight illuminates the windy road down “the hill” the midway turn reveals infinite diamond shaped sparkles reflecting on the water’s surface a shock of cold deepens upon approaching the canyons second horseshoe turn the walk down the ramp...
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Eerily in the pre-dawn light, where everything seems to take on an otherworldly patina, the shrill cries echo off of the massive sandstone cliffs looming over Scripps Canyon. At once haunting and majestic, this is merely the aural interplay between the...
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At first light on Sunday October 9th, 2016 an enormous cliff collapse occurred along the steep section of precipice just south of the Ho Chi Minh trail; the overhang infamously known as El Capitan.
That morning, as I completed the last stretch of my...
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