Month: January 2010

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Shorebreak for Breakfast

SURF: 4-8ft.

I met a few stokereporters out for dawn patrol at Ocean Beach. I was optimistically assured by Josh it would be a nice 3-5 and good practice on the shortboard. Arg.

It was definitely bigger than I was expecting. I still haven’t been able to duck dive my 6’8 so all and all the morning was much harder than I anticipated. I let Veronica borrow my 7 that is nearly impossible to duck dive. She wound up ditching it and swimming with it in tow. I wanted to do things my way so she made it out and I didn’t.

Ahh well. It was a beautiful morning regardless. I did manage to bruise my leg up pretty good in the shorebreak. I’m not exactly sure what law of physics ocean beach had to break to administer that beatdown, but I got beatdown pretty good. 😉

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Rain here means snow there!

SURF: UNNNG.
SNOW: 4-6ft.

It’s been raining and raining and raining. The surf is jumbled, big, messy, not to mention the sewer overflows. Eww.

But when it rains, it snows.

Laura, Sahana and I booked it to Tahoe to pick off some snow. After a month of barely surfing, it felt so great to get on skis and go. I haven’t skied in years (I can’t remember the last time I went) but it all came back pretty quickly and I had a blast. Tahoe is really beautiful.

Big fluffy snowflakes are a good thing to keep in mind when it’s shin deep puddles and slopsurf. It’s gotta be snowing somewhere!

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Catching closeouts before the rain

SURF: 3-4ft, inconsistent and mostly closed out.

Luke, Emily and I hit Linda Mar in an attempt to get a little surfing in before the HUGE winter storm on it’s way to the west coast. The rain hovered just offshore, occasionally lightly drizzling. Surf was meh. Most rides involved outrunning the closeout so none of the finesse I was hoping for.

I tried out one of Luke’s boards. It’s amazing how well suited my Stewart is for me as well as how different a board that’s the same size feels. Slight variations in shape really do feel different once you’re used to a certain board.

It was good to get in the water after 2 weeks out sick. Rain was already coming down when I brought my gear home.

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Dawn Patrol on New Year’s Day

SURF: Inconsistent, but decent waves. Waist high and mushy at the center of the beach, shoulder+ and steep at the north end. Increased frequency and closeouts as the day went on.

Mmm, 6am on New Years Day. Driving out I got to watch what was left of the Blue Moon through the trees in Golden Gate park. Not a terrible way to start the new year.

Waves were a little slow, not the excitement packed day I’d had the day before, but decent. I got in two solid rides but mostly paddled around happy to be in the water. I surfed 7-11 then watched Josh pick off waves on the north end as things started to get rougher. Once he’d had enough of the closeouts and shorebreak, we headed off to Montara to check out the waves before having a MASSIVE lunch at Half Moon Bay Brewing company.

One little bummer thing I noticed, my board’s dinged from a drop in collision the day before. I was going right, guy dropped in headed left. It’s a small ding but it will need attention. I’m debating fixing it myself but with the coming work week it might be beneficial to take it in and get the work done faster.

All and all though, not a bad surfventure day. Lots of laughing and some waves. Sure beats getting up early for just about anything else 😀