It should be noted that 3 years removed from the coastal/surfing life...
I still wake up early and check the palm trees or flags to see which direction the wind is blowing.
Hey, it's offshore...
LIKE IT REALLY F*#KING MATTERS IN TUCSON!!!
@ dave, that wave pic you took from the boat looks like todos/killers!
SI!
Todos, Inside bowl
Credit: dave
Jefe, remember when O'side would do this after some huge rains when the San Luis Rey would wash out the sand and the road, effectively closing that stretch of the coast hwy.?? It was so rad, perfect a-frames that would peel flawlessly all the way to the beach.
S. Jetty, O'side Harbor 92'
Credit: dave
Lets not forget our East Coast counter part. Nothing like warm water and a hurricane coming straight at you from Africa for a week of glory.
Not climbing OR surfing... I am all for the "have a big quiver" approach. Create a quiver with skills and toys: Climbing, backcountry ski/snowboard, surfing, paragliding, mtn biking, peak bagging and throw in BASE for a couple years and then quit. Then just pick from the quiver as conditions and psyche dictate.
There are some damn fine photos in this thread, as it stands I only have one photo of myself surfing after 15 years...
My dad took this at Sunset Cliffs in San Diego, it is one of my favorite photos, sits right in front of my chair in the corner window at the front of my house so I can see it while reading...
While we are getting into it, and CMac started the quiver idea...
What are you riding?
Me:
A 9'6" Becker San Onofre, modified a little - triple redwood stringer with ol' school glassed leash attachment (which I try to never use...) also has a giant Infinity skeg that would be more appropriate beneath a sloop. Gotta brag about the hook-up - my buddies dad glasses for Becker and I only paid $500, with delivery to Monterey!
A 6'10" TDK tri-fin swallow tail, hand-me-down from a buddy in the military who got shipped to Iraq and then Kansas... $0
First board - 8'6" Tony Staples tri-fin squash tail (fun to learn on)
Charles
Jefe - My brother lives in Tuscon, and never surfs but won't give up his 9'6" Brewer that he keeps at our parents house in SD... hunt him down at REI (he's the admin) and tell him its just not right to keep that board gathering dust...
Guess its not the statistics so much as the fear of not knowing that you are about to be shredded like an unwanted sensitive document... but hey, just pack that trusty pistol...
Yeah socialclimber, I guess most of us do not get a chance to choose the way we die.....but in the case of the Great Whites.....I will take whatever the mountains dish out over that!!!!!!
Alpine, that second shot has to be the second glassiest wave I have seen... but it will have to do. Really jealous of the pics and the boat, nice post!
Surfstar- didn't quite get what you meant. i wish I had some better surf shots . I need a scanner for some of the better shots I have. I grew up in your neck of the woods and still do most of my surfing around Pt Conception and central cal. Hoping for a trip to WARM water soon!!!!! Warbler, hope your ankle heals to let you back in the line-up and pack that kid up and go!. Jefe, GET SOME my man!!!.
Credit: east side underground
edit ,I know I've posted this shot before but I love the vibe!!!!
Let us know!