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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Jun 22, 2018 - 07:39am PT
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I think I would rather get that wave than climb anything. We can officially end this thread.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Jun 22, 2018 - 09:13am PT
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That is a LOOOOONG walk back to the point for another wave!
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BryanE
climber
Minnesota
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Jun 22, 2018 - 07:26pm PT
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Wow, I'm not a surfer but damned if I don't want to be one after watching that video. Thanks for the post.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Jun 22, 2018 - 10:33pm PT
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^^^^ 1+ Me too!!!!
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jun 25, 2018 - 09:10am PT
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I got tired just watching that video. Now I need a siesta.
QUESTION for Cabo surfers: Just booked a trip to Cabo for AUG 22-29. Staying is Costa Azul on the beach, walkable to Zippers, et.al.. How is it that time of year?
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jun 25, 2018 - 09:32am PT
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At the surf hotel? Old Mans is right in front, Costa Azul is slightly to the left and for zippers you have to navigate some rocks around the point or a trail on the bluff and then a 400-yard beachwalk. This is all tide dependent. Medium tides are best although you can take advantage of some nice hit sections caused by the exposed rocks at Costa Azul at low tide.
The locals down there suck and particularly at Zippers. The locals learned to hate the day a direct flight from Long Beach started 20 some odd years ago with the resulting influx of greedy Orange County surfers.
Check out Shipwrecks on the East Cape, Tule Wash towzrds Cabo and Cerritos on the Pacific side.
And what D2 said
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jun 25, 2018 - 09:37am PT
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Gunkie, it sounds like you surfed blacks in the past. If you like beach breaks, there are occasionally great sand bars around Playitas or the old El Presidente Hotel in San Jose del Cabo.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jun 25, 2018 - 09:52am PT
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Thanks for the tips! Staying a 15 minute walk from the Zippers area. Not worried about the locals at Zippers; we're goofyfoots :) Rented a 4WD jeep. Plan on hitting Shipwrecks, 9 Palms, Cerritos, other spots. Like the low tide Costa Azul novelties.
Staying in an Airbnb here:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Los+Cabos/@23.0352218,-109.7106999,175m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x86af50a78c8856e7:0xddee9785dae75a4e!2sSan+Jos%C3%A9+del+Cabo,+Baja+California+Sur,+Mexico!3b1!8m2!3d23.0636562!4d-109.7024376!3m4!1s0x86af50f5a212354b:0x135c49fbdf7aa908!8m2!3d23.0352206!4d-109.7101522
Was surfing Black's the weekend before last. Scored very uncrowded, glassy, shoulder high conditions two Friday dawn patrols ago. Really fun waves.
Thanks again!
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jun 25, 2018 - 10:10am PT
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I had it wrong, I thought you were in front of old man's. It looks like you're a 15 minute walk up the beach heading west.
Purple being Zippers, then Coasta Azul (the rock) then Old Mans on the far side of the headland.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Jun 25, 2018 - 01:46pm PT
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I was in Colorado this weekend and tried out river surfing! It took a bunch of tries but I finally was getting up and riding. Pretty fun.
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Jul 22, 2018 - 07:23pm PT
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From a superb Bryan Di Salvatore piece in Surfer's Journal. I'm really starting to believe that the best climbing writing is actually by surfers.
"My wife calls me a hermit with social skills. She doesn’t know the half of it: sometimes my own company flat out pisses me off. People grate on me. In the water, too. Especially. If I were to list the most dreadful spot in the world, it might well be Kirra at full pump. Part of my aquatic misanthropy is garden-variety neurosis, part of it my constitutional passivity and shyness, and a lot of it plain selfishness. I was, at my best, a journeyman out there, lower-middle of most packs."
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jul 22, 2018 - 08:01pm PT
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Z, that's a kaleidoscope! Who is it?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 23, 2018 - 08:00pm PT
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Great palm tree artistry I must say
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Bluelens
Social climber
Pasadena and Ojai, CA
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Jul 24, 2018 - 10:34am PT
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Sharing...
The Endangered Waves App is the mobile tool that allows users to share and geotag threats facing their coastlines, beaches and surf breaks. When you download and use the app, you are helping Save The Waves monitor and respond to coastal problems on a global scale. Be part of the solution!
https://www.savethewaves.org/mobileapp/
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 24, 2018 - 01:59pm PT
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Don't want to get all wet. There's always salt farming.
Don't mind getting wet and not afraid of head injury? Take your supper at the Wedge
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Or maybe a spine injury
Worst of the Wedge: Body surfer (Zachariah Zeiger - real name)recounts breaking back at mutant break
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Aug 29, 2018 - 08:11pm PT
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In LAX right now waiting for our red-eye back to the east coast. Had a great time surfing Los Cabos/Costa Azul & east cape. Hit a bit of a swell nadir, but got good to great surf every day. Surfed Zippers with 14 people in the line-up on a head high+ day and got all the waves I could handle. My son also got his share or more. Loved the real locals (MX) hated most or all of the ex-pats; dickheads all around. Had to stuff one of the ex-pats into the rocks because they snaked me on a bomb out the back at Zippers. I stared him down waiting to escalate and he said not a word and didn't even paddle for another waves that I even looked at. We got in good with the Mex surfers by giving waves up front and they started blocking and hooting us into set waves. We dropped our extra wax for them on the way out and we're all amigos now.
Will be back. Thanks for the tips!
PS - now looking at a bombing swell for the east coast next weekend.
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Esparza
Trad climber
Westminster, CA
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Aug 30, 2018 - 09:04am PT
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Some tropical south swell that hit Huntington Beach back on the 18th... It was pumping!
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