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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 25, 2010 - 10:59pm PT
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This is the terribly disturbing Cyclops break in Western Australia. Not a long wave but an horrific one. Remote: 4 hours to a hospital. Persistent backwash that distorts the face horrifically.
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Kalimon
Trad climber
Ridgway, CO
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Sep 26, 2010 - 12:12am PT
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Beautiful and terrifying!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Sep 26, 2010 - 01:43am PT
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my god man, that's a water hammer of Montana scale!
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2010 - 08:01am PT
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Ghost those two links are the same videos
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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Sep 26, 2010 - 09:39am PT
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epic slab..
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 26, 2010 - 11:11am PT
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Step into Liquid...Nerve required to even look at the sucka much less slide on down! What people do for fun!
The ocean is the ultimate solution~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
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Prod
Trad climber
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Sep 26, 2010 - 11:32am PT
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Sweet.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2010 - 11:33am PT
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Or as Ed Hartouni likes to say or quote, "it doesn't have to be fun to be fun".
This wave is so fearsome and twisted; 40 years ago stuff like this --- we didn't even KNOW about it, much less go out and do it.
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ron gomez
Trad climber
fallbrook,ca
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Sep 26, 2010 - 12:25pm PT
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looks like a MESSED UP Wedge in Newport Beach, Ca. Use to body surf the Wedge before it got it's nasty reputation(early 70's), you'd be gettin' spit over the falls looking down about 15 or 20 feet and see nuttin' but sand.....oh to be young and dumb again!
Peace
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bmacd
Trad climber
100% Canadian, Certified Kook
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Sep 26, 2010 - 04:46pm PT
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Tami wow, thats really going overboard, even for you
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Sep 26, 2010 - 04:53pm PT
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Is that real??????
sheesh!
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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Sep 26, 2010 - 04:58pm PT
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almost seems like there would be no time to ride...
Video Review Edit: insane
somebody mentioned natural selection......
Cyclops Video Review Edit: Boogie boarding on that wave.. with the sharks circling.... cannot be that great... But I guess if your whole thing is about riding a wave the can kill you, in waters where sharks can kill you.. and living to tell about it.... Then, it's great..
That second youtube video review edit: just a photo, with a link to more pointlessness.
Great heads up on the surf front..
surfs up
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 26, 2010 - 05:27pm PT
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I know, Stevie, it looks like I used the "liquify" tools on it, doesn't it? No this is real; plus go google it, there's plenty more images and info out there.
It is one of those really rare breaks that actually has surfable shape sometimes, breaks in nearly zero water, has a deep water channel running up to or near it, is known to man, and can be accessed. Rare and then with obviously a major side/crosswash to it sometimes, creating the almost otherworldly distortions.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Sep 26, 2010 - 05:43pm PT
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Pretty amazing, Peter! Whoever took the shots did a great job.
I don't think I'd be the surfer in that picture, though!!!!
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Nohea
Trad climber
Sunny Aiea,Hi
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Sep 26, 2010 - 05:51pm PT
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The ocean is the ultimate solution~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
Word!
Looking at the volume of water overhead, I would love to see the bottom (on my terms) of this area. I have dived the Pipe, Sunset, Ehukai, and Waimea, this seems closest to the Pipe but with some huge difference. Dang that is some wave!
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