Sunday, March 7th, 2010
Charge the Snow
Another weekend up in Tahoe. Ahh mountains.
I decided this weekend to work on my charge. When my life feels out of control, I hold back when I surf. I get scared of steep waves, I don’t like speed. I have more experience skiing than surfing and took the opportunity to get my charge back. [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Sunset to Snow
Surf: 2-4ft, clean, inconsistent. Dark.
After Tuesdays bigger wave morning, I was pretty excited to hear the swell was dying down. At high tide the waves were mushy. It was an easy paddle with lots of sprinting for mushy waves. I wound up doing a fair amount of kooky riding, trying to make bottom turns standing [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Paddle Out in the Storm
Surf: 4-10ft, 20s period. Raining, Windy.
Gear: RipCurl G-Bomb and 7′4 roundtail.
We’ve had storm after storm the last few months. I’ve watched the buoys spike, heard the rain pounding away at my windows, and grumbled about how it was soo big and too rough to go out. I had a new wetsuit and a new board [...]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2010
The Jetty Gets Angry
Surf: Shoulder High to Well Overhead waves. Jumbled up, short period surf. Angry.
I’ll admit it, I’m a little out of shape. 20 days between surf session is killer for surfing fitness. I’ve tried to do at least 20 pushups a day (made it to 40! yay!) but there’s no substitute for water time. That said, [...]
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Sunday, February 14th, 2010
More Snow!
Surf: Still stormy and angry. But it’s 50 and sunny in Tahoe! Go Snow!
While everyone else was watching Mavericks, I was off skiing. The weather was pretty beautiful. I spent the weekend trying to work on my technique and get my comfort level for speed back up. I figure if I can get more comfortable [...]
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Monday, February 1st, 2010
Mellow Morning at Lindy
Surf: Knee to Waist High. Clean, but inconsistent.
Lovely morning. The moon was setting over the ocean, lighting up the water like a big ole painting. I watched the little waves for a while waiting for Chuck arrive. We paddled out to small waves, great for a longboard but a little trickier for Chuck on [...]
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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 [...]
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Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
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. [...]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
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 [...]
