About Don Piburn

Don Piburn Don Piburn is a surfer, '70s outlaw skateboarder, '80s backcountry snowboarder, and a late '80s Snake River surfer. He moved to O’ahu in the early '90s, where he completed a 35-year career teaching infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities. This included decades in partnership and in the employ of native Hawaiian programs serving families and their youngest and most vulnerable keiki. Recently retired, he now regularly surfs O’ahu’ s varied waves, including those on the Waimea River. He fishes from and surfs his kayaks on windward reefs, and regularly hikes with his Hawai‘i born and raised wife, Janice.