E's Surf Report: Burly, crazy, a few nuglets

Cruised the beach and wasn't too psyched on what i saw. Not much wind but the surface remained bumpy and jarbled from winds last night. Biggest waves a few feet overhead and oozing with juice. For some reason i found myself donning the wetty, stretching and paddling out. It was one of those sessions where your walking into the water, looking out at dismal, utter crapola. Wondering why on earth you're about to plunge into pitching/disorganized/chaotic/thundering craziness.. Once again conditions looked *relatively* stable and mellow from the parking lot but once out in the water the low-level OB fear-factor seeped into my consciousness. A few waves cruised through every few minutes that rose up precipitously, standing sometimes 10 feet strait up.. then munching and crushing and blasting anything in their path.. Not nice shapely waves either, more like warbled, mishapen, ugly sucking demons-of-the-night. A few of those vibrated through my skull and knocked my earplugs out. But somehow a few chunkified south-swell lefts also offered speedy, thrilling rides.. I caught 6 lefts and 3 rights in about an hour. I suffered 3 spine-tingling eruptions of set waves on my head and also went over the falls a few times for good measure. The lefts were really fun and wild. crazy, ledging, grab-rail-and-prey as my left shoulder digs into the wall of the wave and i somehow make the drop and jet down the line as the wave continues to suck and pitch and warble and race and it seems at each second that thousands of pounds of liquid energy will implode on my face but i keep backhand pumping and racing and pigdogging and willing and just flying down the line.. then.. the shit dumps on my head.. ahh.. that was fun.. with the long lefts and absence of rights i ended up down at Taraval by the end of the session..

anyway.. sounds like Ian scored the jetty yesterday.. local groms sound like they ruled the peak but it's good to hear of magnificent, glorious action at the princeton jetty. probably good this morning.. anybody check it?

also.. check this out.. i think that i'm bartending during this..

On Thursday, May 29th the San Francisco Sierra Club is honored to host an evening with Mark Massara, the director of the Sierra Club's Coastal Program. An avid surfer and noted watchdog of the California Coastal Commission, Mark is a skilled attorney and effective advocate for coastal protection. Attend this briefing on all that Mark and the Sierra Club's Great Coastal Places Campaign is doing to protect our coasts from the never-ending onslaught of development and encroachment.

Thursday May 29th, 7pm. social hour, 8pm program
Sierra Club National Headquarters, 85 Second St.,
3rd floor Yosemite Rm.
Free admission.
Wine and beer cash bar. Non-members welcome.
Co-sponsored by Surfrider Foundation. For more info., call
Randy Zurcher at 415/812-0577

Just a friendly reminder..
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