Grom Fest 2026

Grom Fest is Pedro Point Surf Club's day for the youngest surfers on the coast. On the first Saturday of June the club turns Linda Mar over to the kids, the most dependable break in the Bay Area handed to the surfers who will be the lineup a decade from now. This year the field opened up to everyone twenty-one and under, widening a lineup that already draws from every town the waves reach, Pacifica and Half Moon Bay, Santa Cruz, the city and Marin. The day grew out of the club's longstanding gatherings, when families kept showing up and the kids needed a contest of their own. What it has become is less a competition than a reunion. In a lineup that gets more crowded every year, this is the morning the local surf community plants itself on the sand, slows down, and watches its own come up. These photographs are the day as it happened, in the order it happened, from the first paddle-out to the last set before the wind came up. Free to the community, with edited selects available in full resolution for anyone who wants to keep them. Produced by Pedro Point Surf Club. Event artwork by Aleia Keating Anderson. Made possible by Traveler Surf Club & Coastal Outpost, Nor-Cal Surf Shop, Mollusk Surf Shop, Sonlight Surf Shop, Smith & McWherter, Just Pulls, Burger Board, and Soul Grind Coffee.