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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jun 26, 2013 - 12:29am PT
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Interesting, yeah, Bri.
Our current Nat Young was of course named in honor of the the great Aussie Nat Young of the sixties. And his side kick creative luminary, Wayne Lynch, great to see some footage on him and how it developed later. These two guys were absolutely huge in the late sixties. HUGE. And then time went on. It was part of the Short Board Revolution too.
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Jun 26, 2013 - 01:03am PT
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up in index watching the bali pro, soo good. while climbing is a magic pursuit, I would take those waves 19 out of 20 days over climbing. p.s. nat is in the groove.
pps slab climbing vs. slab surfing run with it
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 27, 2013 - 04:53pm PT
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I suggest hitting this link and letting it take you away
These guys are some of my neighbors
http://vimeo.com/1569282
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 30, 2013 - 12:19am PT
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Artrock23
Mountain climber
Laguna Beach, CA
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Jun 30, 2013 - 01:05am PT
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Both sports compliment one another.
Living at the ocean and near a good reefbreak, surfing is what I do for fun when not on climbing trips. And with this weekend's heatwave, surfing overhead waves at my local break with only a few guys out (and air temp in low 80s) is sweet.
Now, if only it wasn't 4+hrs of driving to get to the Sierras!
Cool to see all the SC guys on this thread. I get my boards shaped by Bob Pearson. :-)
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splitter
Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Jun 30, 2013 - 03:39pm PT
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o.b. (san diego) was our local stomping grounds as youth. but, we came very close to losing this wave in '69/'70. a wave that we had surfed on a daily/weekly basis (along with the cliffs).
in '69 OB town council got the go ahead for their long awaited plans to build another jetty 250-300 yards south of north jetty and then dredge the whole beach in between the two jetty's to create a much publicized boat marina. the result was what is now known as middle jetty, which is blocks long before it stops at the waters edge. we fought like hell, tooth and nail, to stop it. resorted to monkey wrenching the huge dosers, etc (long before EA wrote the book). it was war. demonstrating, blocking progress, getting arrested, etc for well over a year before it all finally ground to a halt at the waters edge. we were very determined to do whatever it took. the exact same thing (boat marina was built at the cost of a classic surf spot) had just happened at dana point/'killer dana', a super good point break that i last surfed in the spring of '68...then poof and it was no more.
the result, which was eventually blocked off to vehicle access and is known as dog beach, is what we have now. one of the two best lineups on the west coast/mainland, in my and many surfers opinion. (and the other one is just down the road).
anyway, this wave/beach still means a lot to me, so i thought that i would share that tidbit with ya'll!
a little further along where the outside peak connects with the inside sandbar/beach break, walls up and becomes a fast, full-on pumping down the line barrel for another 75+ yards...
Killer Dana (RIP) on a small day, bitd...
KD would hold a 20+ NW swell with perfect shape...sigh!
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splitter
Trad climber
SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Kinneloa rulez, brah ("this ain't no weenie roast")!
edit: use to boulder with him at the Santee boulder's in the 80's. He named a boulder problem the "Purple Iguana". An .12 face route that I got the SA of that was a great problem, but probably long forgotten. I had the same t-shirt, but its long gone. Still have one of his chalk-bags. Wonder what happened to him? Last I heard, he moved to ColoRadzo in the late 80's.
btw, Surf & Stone, to the bone, brah!
edit: Brandon - you should move here to San Diego/OB. you cud surf 300+ days a year while yer dogs run around on the beach. you would be a pro in no time at all.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Jul 13, 2013 - 09:29pm PT
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I'm watching some film about surfing in Ireland on Netflix.
It was kind of lame for a bit, focusing more on surfing in places other than Ireland, but then, one hour in, boom!
Huge slab!
What a great, scary looking wave!
Made my day.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jul 25, 2013 - 01:08am PT
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some surf photo's that frumy took of me.
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crøtch
climber
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Jul 27, 2013 - 02:04pm PT
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this is the most awesome expression of the wave as canvas that I have seen. things get crazy around 1:25.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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NorCalNomad
Trad climber
San Francisco
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Was at OB (Judah) this morning with a friend and had a nice great white swam by, probably 20' away. We had only been out an hour, I wanted to be out longer :(
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Gregory Crouch
Social climber
Walnut Creek, California
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NorCalNomad... it was a dolphin.
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karodrinker
Trad climber
San Jose, CA
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That clip makes me want to remove my fins!
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tradryan
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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NorCalNomad... it was a dolphin.
+1
I was out a couple of days ago in the evening sitting up on the board waiting for a wave when just in front of me this huge gaping mouth full of sharp pointy teeth comes out of the water in the general direction of my face. I just about crapped myself in the half second it took to realize it was a sea lion with a head the size of a cow's coming up for air.
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NorCalNomad
Trad climber
San Francisco
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I've seen my share of dolphins in the bay/ ocean growing up here...definitely didn't look like any dolphin I've ever seen. Had a delta shape with no curve on the trailing edge.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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U guys know of the NorCal dood who has been bitten twice by Great Whites in a 15 year span? It ain't a matter of if...
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rbob
climber
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I was out a couple of days ago in the evening sitting up on the board waiting for a wave when just in front of me this huge gaping mouth full of sharp pointy teeth comes out of the water in the general direction of my face. I just about crapped myself in the half second it took to realize it was a sea lion with a head the size of a cow's coming up for air.
Oh man - I laughed out loud...
Out there in the deep space of the ocean of the red triangle... there are lot of spooky thoughts (and creatures) that can creep up on you.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Some more good times in the Gulf.
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Some Random Guy
climber
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those gulf pics look fun. you ever go out and surf the wakes of the tanker ships? i'd do it if i lived there.
i was out around judah last week sitting there waiting for a bomb and two dolphins (or porpoises?) jumped fully out of the water literally right beside me. like two feet to my right. scared the sh#t out of me at first until i turned and realized they were mammals. then it was all cool. the conditions at ob haven't been too great lately but i have been out a bunch and there have been an abnormally higher amount of dolphins and porpoises around. they seem to like me. they always come real close.
deadman's sf......this place is GNAR when it gets big. check out the guy at 2:25
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don't get caught inside.....
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