Bob Woodie went missing in the Sierra Nevada high country in October. His sons, who’d grown up backpacking with their

Seminal Hermosa Beach skaterboarder Jake Piasecki, 46, drowned in the ocean off First Street in Hermosa Beach Thursday evening. “The things he could do on a skateboard were truly magical. He used to tell me that four wheels and a piece of wood will set you free,” former pro skater Dave Hatton said of his lifelong friend.


