Some surf trips are easy, just simple fun in the sun. Others push you, test you, make you reconsider what the hell you’ve been doing with your life. A few days on a small aluminum skiff with Raph ...

Raph Bruhwiler thinks he’s at the 8th annual Bruhwiler Kids Surf Classic until his sister Catherine Bruhwiler pipes up from the surf judges’ tower that it’s the 11th. “Maybe I’ve only been to seven,” ...