Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer,” died Friday, Jan. 10, in Encinitas after an illness. He was 82. The fun-seeking surfer, whose sunset silhouette on ...

Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer” and an adopted son of Encinitas, parlayed his passion for waves into a lifetime of sand and sport on beaches across ...

The hit 1966 surfing documentary immortalized the maverick California wave rider as an archetype of the footloose rebel surfer. Mike Hynson surfing in Cape St. Francis, South Africa, in 1964.

I would like to share a message sent to our Michael Hynson family by Rusty Miller, a world-known and honored surfer: “Our warmest condolences for the [Jan. 10] passing of Michael, one of our ...

It was electrical. The hair on my neck stood straight up." Michael Lear Hynson was born June 28, 1942, in Crescent City, California, near the Oregon border, the elder of two sons of Robert Hynson ...