Santa Cruz, California, is on the map when it comes to both surfing and mountain biking, and Warren Kniss is from California, but he doesn’t surf, at least not in the conventional way, on water.

SANTA CRUZ — Here’s a fun activity: Ask anybody — it doesn’t even need to be somebody local — what things they most associate with Santa Cruz. If surfing is not the first thing they bring up, it ...

This spring quarter, UC Santa Cruz Humanities students immersed themselves in the story of three Hawaiian princes who introduced surfing to the United States in the late 19th century, using Santa Cruz ...