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Tim Sohn is a freelance journalist based in New York.

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"The Life and Death of Shane McConkey" appeared in the July issue of Outside Magazine and can be read online here.

"Gold Fish": feature on the salmon fishermen of Bristol Bay and their fight against the proposed Pebble Mine appeared in June's Outside and can be read online here.

"Everyman's Everest", a first-person account of my climb of Aconcagua (22,834 feet), ran in the May issue of Men's Journal, and can be read online here.

 

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Monday
04Jan2010

Stand-up Paddleboard, Maine-style.

You might think that an air temperature approaching single-digits and a bone-chilling wind would make surfing prohibitive. Not so for the hardy (crazy?) surfers of Maine, who capitalize on the occasional clear and calm winter day by donning a walrus-blubber-thick wetsuit and heading out to their local breaks. The sport's been growing all over New England (scroll down through this article I wrote in 2007 for an account of New Hampshire surfing), and Maine now boasts a handful of surf shops located mostly along the coastal stretch south of Portland. There's even a website dedicated to Maine surf forecasts. I came across this intrepid stand-up paddleboarder just north of Fortunes Rocks Cove in Biddeford a few days after Christmas. I never did get his name, since he was still riding when the cold forced me to move along.

 

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