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Justin Housman

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California, Fairfax, San Francisco
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Covers:  Anything outdoors-related, especially surfing, camping/hiking, environmental.

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Justin Housman’s Biography

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I'm no longer writing for outdoor enthusiast media, but I do co-host the Rock Fight podcast, so I'm still accepting gear pitches for potential podcast review.

Justin Housman’s Journalist Portfolio

The Other North Shore - SURFER Magazine

The Other North Shore - SURFER Magazine

I’d come to Minnesota because I’d always harbored a weird fascination with the Great Lakes, that forgotten ba…

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Safety Not Guaranteed

Safety Not Guaranteed

As shark populations have grown in recent years, so have the numbers of sightings and attacks. What does this…

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An Unintentional Review of the Land Rover Defender 110

An Unintentional Review of the Land Rover Defender 110

I never expected to actually get to drive a late-model Land Rover Defender, but there I was in Iceland, just …

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The Green Wave | SURFER Magazine

The Green Wave | SURFER Magazine

Hawthorne, California--a grid of tired boulevards in southwest Los Angeles--is not a place you'd immediately …

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Smokey, With Toxic Searing Undertones

Smokey, With Toxic Searing Undertones

Justin Schmidt has suffered enough slings and arrows of the Hymenoptera family of insects to be able to categ…

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Opportunity for Student Researchers

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By Justin Housman Verified, Garrison Frost
| Save the Redwoods League
We are offering $6,500 grants for students to do research projects in Redwoods! Save the Redwoods League wants to invite you to apply to our student starter grant program. We are offering starter grants of $6,500 for undergraduate and graduate students who are Black, Indigenous, Latine/Latina/Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander, or people of color, doing research related to coast redwood and giant sequoia forests.
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How To: Wrap Those Rails in Color

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By Justin Housman Verified
| SURFER Magazine Verified
The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Welcome to “This Old Surfboard” in which I attempt all kinds of DIY surfboard improvement projects on boards lying around my garage. This installment: Splash some color across an otherwise boring board’s rails. Rail bands are classy, elegant, and, more importantly, the least expensive board color options.
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What Do My Surf Dreams Mean? Dream Analysis 101 for the Wave Riders of the World

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By Justin Housman Verified
| SURFER Magazine Verified
Every surfer has had a dream where they’ve either experienced enhanced abilities or self-sabotaging behavior—but what does it mean? The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. The best wave I’ve ever surfed is a novelty right-hander that spins up inside a sandspit-protected harbor in the little Central Coast town where I grew up.
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What's your favorite social network?

Twitter.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

The Other North Shore, in Surfer Magazine, a trip I organized to the frozen north shore of Lake Superior.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Find a niche.