Brian Milne

Brian Milne is an outdoors adventurer, waterman and former senior writer and editor for McClatchy/Knight Ridder Newspapers and About:com/New York Times.

He has won multiple Associated Press and California Newspaper Publishers Association awards for his outdoors and sports writing.

A California native, Milne has written a pair of outdoors guidebooks on hiking (Top Trails: California Central Coast)( and fishing (Fishing Central California), as well as contributed to national outdoors publications Fly Fisherman, National Geographic, Game & Fish, and Fishing & Hunting News.

Along with producing an independent surf documentary about the El Nino swells and Maverick’s surf contest in 2016, Milne has contributed to surfing media sites The Inertia, Surfing Today, Surfer magazine and the Surf News Network.

Nicknamed the “Bear Grylls of North County,” by The San Luis Obispo Tribune, some of Milne’s most memorable outdoors adventures include being in the water for the final Titans of Mavericks surf contest in California, cage diving with sharks on the North Shore, and surfing everywhere from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, to the Great Lakes, the East Coast and even Israel.

Milne has also hiked much of the John Muir Trail, climbed Half Dome and Mt. Whitney (the highest mountain in the contiguous U.S. at 14,494 feet), and kayaked the entire 100-mile coastline of San Luis Obispo County, Calif.

Milne holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and credits his parents, Jon and Pat, for his love of the outdoors, surfing, fishing, hiking and camping. He dedicates all of his work to his three beautiful children and hiking buddies, Payton, Westley and Maya.