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After a String of Tragedies, Rescuers Issue a Stark Warning to Anyone Visiting California Beaches

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By Owen Clarke
| Outside Magazine Verified
A massive summer surf anomaly shattered records from L.A. to San Francisco. A veteran water rescue chief wants you to know this before setting foot on the sand. Two sisters drove to see the big waves in Laguna Beach on June 10. Lifeguards prevented beachgoers from going into the harsh surf at the same beach near Montage Resort, where a child was swept out to sea.
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Why People Keep Dying on Auto Belays: The Deeper Story Behind the Luxembourg Tragedy

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By Owen Clarke
| Climbing Magazine Verified
Published June 17, 2026 05:31AM A man died earlier this month while using an auto belay in a Luxembourg climbing gym, falling roughly 25 feet onto the gym floor. The accident occurred on June 2, at 8 p.m., at RedRock Climbing Center in Soleuvre, a small town in southern Luxembourg. One of the gym’s co-founders and owners, Luc Kohnen, told me that this was the first time an accident like this had occurred at RedRock, which has been open since 2018.
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When the Water Is Low, a Packraft Will Go

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By Owen Clarke
| Outside Magazine Verified
We’d been paddling the Owyhee River for four days, through the rugged basalt canyons and sprawling plains of eastern Oregon’s high desert. We’d drifted through stretches of water so wide and flat as to seem like the surface of a mirror, and navigated churning choke-points jammed with boulders. It was early October, and the river was low. At times it felt more rock than water. Now, we were in the deepest part of the canyon.
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