Mavericks: Northern California’s Terrifying, World-Class Big Wave

Mavericks: Northern California’s Terrifying, World-Class Big Wave

Just north of Half Moon Bay, a stretch of cold, remote Northern California coastline produces one of the most feared and most respected big waves on the planet. Mavericks combines genuinely enormous size with cold water, sharks, and a jagged rock outcropping that has made this break as dangerous as it is legendary. Discovered relatively recently in surf history terms, Mavericks did not become widely known until the 1990s, but it quickly establis…