E's Surf Report

i'm going to tahoe this weekend to get some powdered waves. it looks like they've already gotten a bit of snow this year. i'll probably ride northstar tomorrow. i'm not sure where i'll go on sunday. anyone got any favorites on the north side? i'm not much interested in parks but love carving through the trees at mach glide.

rza, forget northstar, that place is pretty flat. alpine, squaw and sugarbowl have what your looking for.

rza
great idea don't get snowed in. I have some favorite tree runs but alas can't divulge on this site do to the no name dropping policy

NorthSTAR = the Lindy of boarding! Agreed - SUGARBOWL no traffic hassles either.

hey, anybody got ideas for location of a way excellent lunch time surf session today?

great now ther'll be 40 min lift lines at the bowl this weekend

Surfed with the Doof, SS Sharkbait, and Kdalle. The latter on a fifteen foot board.

Kind of funky waves. Too bad the big sets would just wall up and closedown. A nice drop but you need a jet on your stick to get around the corner. Still some fun waves for the persistent paddlers out there.

Oh, and I saw another 'shark' out in the line-up. Actually the best take-off I saw was when he dropped into a wave just to the north of me.

I guess I was high yesterday when I posted about San Miguel. That spot has always been a zoo. I was thinking about Santo Thomas, down a little ways south of Ensenada.

And Loon - I wear an all black wetsuit and ride a white board, so I definitely stand out from the rest out there.

Seriously, I usually ride bonzers with boomerang fins.

for those who loathe internet exploitation of our cherished surf community, check this guy out. he's got two ads up on craigslist trying to recruit an army of kooks to invade a certain local point break.

The ad:

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/spo/50882486.html

and some responses:

http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/spo/50959724.html

I have already flagged both posts. I think it only takes a few more to get them removed.

Oh, and feel free to email him if you really feel strongly about it: shoalnervo@yahoo.com

Thanks

Pilgrim,

The night vision fort point locals will be pissed.

that craigslist ad is hilarious. at the very least he should be ashamed of his spelling. i mean, i'm no spelling nazi, but...responces? sesion?
some good fishin out there today. i wish i could learn how to find my way out of the mouth of that barrel. it's such a beautiful wide opening just out of reach.

Can someone post a cached version of that ad? It got removed by the time I checked it.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! Surfing sucks. Belated hello Friend #1 + everybody, apologies I recognized no-one except when I misplaced my neighbor and ran into Loon instead. Also briefly mistook Loon for said neighbor - those darn white boards and black neoprene hoods again.

Hey I saw the "shark" too! A very small dorsal fin crested the water 15 feet to my right, fortunately it was accompanied by an undulating gray back, otherwise this morning would have been a whole different story. Oh well if it had been an actual whitey he would have been so small I might have only lost a few toes.

Happy paddling er I mean surfing,

for ankor - If you're not planning to camp, ensenada makes a good base, hotels aren't too expensive, there are some fun bars and you're close to lots of surf north and south of there.

Salsipuedes can be really good, it works on winter time WNW swells. And the campground there is really beautiful as has been said. San miguel can be a zoo, because its a really good wave. Hit it really early. It blows out by noon usually. If its flat, beach breaks north of salsipuedes usually have waves, la fonda is one of the easist to find (k-58 on the free road I think).

South it opens up a little, things spread out. Pta San Jose has great reefs that work on bigger NWs, but I think its more of a summertime spot. I've surfed around Erendira but never in good waves. I checked out some places south of there recently that have a lot of potential, all 1 - 2 hrs south of ensenada. There was a right hand reef / point that was protected from wind and even at 1.5-2 feet could see the potential. If you're down there and its flat there are beaches south too, near a town I forget the name of but its where they grow all the tomatoes. Theres a spot called Volcanes that was pretty fun at shoulder to head high when all around was flatness.

The baja book is worth $25 bucks if your going to spend more than a couple days down there or go more than once. Its in surf shops around here.

rza, I was momentarily tempted to name some spots at squaw but they're not open all that often and squaw can get really crowded. if you put some time in looking though, there are some places with trees and chutes that hold good snow longer than some others. I agree that suger bowl, alpine and squaw are much better than north star. and alpine is super cheap now, and for some reason the crowds at the parking lot and ticket line seem to fade away as soon as you hike a little bit out there.

Come night surfing at Fort Point...bring your car/lights !!
Reply to: shoalnervo@yahoo.com
Date: 2004-12-01, 11:59PM PST

hey i dont have a date until i know how many(if any) would like to do it..
all we need is a few cars or truck for lights

e-mail me at
shoalnervo at yahoo.com

nothing will happen if you dont communicate, yes YOU!!!

if you've been there then you may have an idea of what im planning..park the cars where the lights would iluminate our( as in us in the water surfing) view..i can get somewood for you to park you back wheels onto, that would really be great! it would point the light right on the waves!

ive surfed out there with just one car's lights facing me and that was juuuuust barely enough yet wasnt doing the trick..5+ cars would do the job

surf surfboard surfing surfin
windsurf
windsurfing
kite kiteboard
boardsports event
pacifica ocean

the tight is getting low late at night (and that IS when its the best time to surf there)

this view is from the dash board of my car..pretty close to the water eh
you can have a better spot for the cars just on top of where you see the rocks on the left of the pictures. picture was taken today tues the 2nd of Dec

responces to the night surf sesion at fort point
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Reply to: shoalnervo@yahoo.com
Date: 2004-12-02, 2:37PM PST
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Dude,
I have always thought that would be an interesting thing to do. I
would be willing to give it a go if you can get a reasonable number of cars, I
have a Jeep we can use. It might only happen once if the parks service
decides to be hard asses about it. Do they lock the gat at a certain time of
night?
Let me know.

Mike
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hey,
Keep me in the loop...

Tim
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hi there,
i'm down with this. when are you thinking about going?
how often do you surf fort point?
jim
415(&#&$)##$%#
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I'd be all over this, but I thought they locked the gates at sunset? I
tried driving down there the other day at 5ish in the morning, and the
gate was locked.
Rylan
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hey this is shoal (the one who's trying to make this work)
i was unaware that the gates closed at night!? ive surfed there after the sun went down a few times, once it was pitch black out and only one other car was in the lot, i didnt see any closed gates when i drove outta there..oh yeah here is what the tides have been like:
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12/02 8:24 am 3.92 ft low
12/02 1:24 pm 5.20 ft high
12/02 8:37 pm 0.34 ft low

please don't divulge the squaw stashes, just as in surfing, you gotta search to find. and northstar can be fun sometimes, you just gotta know when and where to go. their park is the best now, hands down. squaw is a zoo on the weekends anyway, tracked out by 11. midweek it gets tracked out by 12. Sugar Bowl rules but lifts are slow and lines are short, although they are steep and deep.

okay, i'm sorry but that is totally ridiculous. pilgrim - you comment that you are all upset about this craigslist exploitation posting (of an obvious, known, and not really that good surf spot). you flag it for removal and then you repost the whole frickin thing here. hmmmm, not a whole lot of logic there.

my nipples are hard. it was cold out this morn'.

e—great words today.
fit my day perfectly. had a little run in
with some dickhead at OB this a.m.

of course today's waves are perfect
for the dickheads. head high glass
brings them out in droves....take off
on a right that is just throwing, grabbed
rail was in the slot and some tranny soCal
kook dropped in on me and then proceeded
to yell and scream at me and call me a kook
and other things then he wanted to "take it
to the beach".....

i am so too old for that shit. and i told him the
same thing. some people.....don't take that
surf punks album so literally kids.

korewin - sorry to hear about the altercation. bummer. he wrecks your ride and then yells at you about it. classic. sorry i missed ya in the water. ended up hitting it a bit further south with a buddy. long flat spells, but good times on a beautiful morning...albeit frickin' cold! oh for those island waters again...

happy Friday, all.

the warm morning light had things aglow today. dewy grass sparkled green in the crisp air. container ships dotted the horizon, lurking on the outskirts of a deep blue ocean. transient rainbows formed from spray feathering off of bright white foam.

friend #1 - we probably crossed paths yet again today. i was surfing with sharkbait for a bit - good to see you ss! also saw a dude on a big stewart -- the infamous kdalle??? i was waiting for my 'last wave' near the big-boarder and very envious of his paddle power - he got 4 waves as i paddled, watched and got stuck inside... i did get a good left early but found myself out of position for much of the remainder of the session. good times anyway...

ck—yeah i saw kaiser when he was getting
out and admired the sweet looking yellow
duct tape on his board. matches the tape
on mine..ha ha. sorry to have missed you.

good times out there in spite of attitudes
the size of kdalle's board. which is
a great way to keep folks off your waves.
sorta like the subcompact vs. the semi-truck...
nice.

manana amigo?

we are the world we are the children we are the ones to make a brighter day so lets start givin theres a choice were making were saving our own lives its true we make a brighter day just you and me.

Pilgram
The Parking Lot at FP is closed after sunset and they lock the gate. You will be ticketd, towed or locked in. Good luck, but I don't think it is gonna happen.

9 - 11 some GREAT waves out there, but I only got mediocre ones. There were four or five-wave sets every 20 minutes or so that were just amazing, and getting better later in the session. When they came through, it was like a steamrolling, supercharged day where you'd swear you'll get hundreds of super rides. But in between those, it was a totally different ocean; placid, endless lulls with pretty sparse mini-sets of speedy shoulder-to-head-high waves breaking critically on the inside (a kook trap, to which I succumbed more than once). I never managed to be out far enough to snag one of the better set waves, though I saw plenty of the clean, curling faces, er, up close. Compared to yesterday, you needed much more skill, luck, or patience to get into the good waves, but they were definitely there.

Same porpoise as yesterday, I think, and I agree, j, my feet are still thawing. The only invitations to the beach I seem to get are clean-up sets.

I don't know Karate, but I know Ca-razy!

Eric - thanks, that's some good info.

thanks everyone for the tahoe info. most years i only get up to tahoe a few times, but now that i'm mobile i'm hoping to hit it often and find my glades. hopefully i'll find some that can compare to colorado's.

enjoy the weekend.

fight fight fight.

surfboard riding is about fighting!

and plus, if you are going to fight, fight in the water!
h20polo style. what goes in the water stays in the water.

keep the beach fighting for the valley gangs.
and bonfires... (nail free of course)

sorry to hear about that krwn.

Mr. the beach have you thought about a career in law enforcement?

everybody was surfboard fighting
them cats paddle fast as lightning...

in the words of rodney king (or was it reginald denny??)

CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG??

donkey fight. heeeehawwwwww!!!!!

these bullshit high-low tides are ruining otherwise perfect days out there.

To The Beach,

You sound so hard.

You must rip.

No way I'm surfing the OB.

Do you surf Linda Ma or the Jeddy?

When did you move here from LO-CAL?

How will I know it's you?

Will you say "I'm the heavy local from LA that got beat up in Oxnard and now I'm taking it out on the world and keeping score . . .to the beach!!!"???

I'm staying out of your way.

Tell you what, tell me what your big truck looks like and if I see it I will not even paddle out.

I still have the fear in me.

thats another reason why i like earplugs..sheety..and i missed it today

on the beach, what happened to you in the past was unfortunate. it seems based on your claims that the last 10 years you've been involved in several altercations. why perpetuate the cycle of violence, hate and negative energy? espicially at the beach, our sanctuary..... dude, let it go. end your violent cycle. increase your peace!

San Francisco Surfer Population Experiment; Every surfer who would surf OB on an average day sits in the line up hand in hand from kellys to the cliffs..would there be enough surfers for the whole stretch? I dont think so. How wide is a person?

did someone hum kung-fu fighting?
http://www.blakestah.com/surf/ob013103.wmv

Gee, how do we sign up to get punched out by this guy? My approach-- (a) Have him arrested for felony assault, it's probaby not the first time. (b) Demand at the sentencing hearing that he is issued an injunction from surfing in the State of California for two years. (c) Sue him in civil court and seek monetary damages to cover your medical expenses and pain and suffering. (d) Since he won't have enough money to pay up, sieze his home, car, dog, and girlfriend.

Do guys who fight all the time keep jobs or have any long term friendships or relationships? What is the farking point?

puffed,
a few years ago i was living in tokyo and went out to surf during a good typhoon swell. we probably drove about 7 or 8 miles along the water and almost the entire stretch was covered with surfers. in most places they were within an arm's length of one another. there were thousands and thousands of surfers. it was unbelievable. i'd be willing to say that area has the highest concentration of surfers in the world.

ob is rarely crowded.

'stah...one of my favs of your vids. good stuff.
korewin...manana for certain.
3 to 5...wise words.
on the beach...you are being sarcastic, right?

Jesus Christ, you fucking idiots!

All 'to the Beach' was saying is to be careful what you wish for. And that lots of people talk tough but don't back it up.

So many people get worked up over meaningless things. Let it pass. If someone kooks you, ask them to stop. If they don't, paddle away.

If someone posts something inflamatory, ignore it.

thanks for the session wrap-up klooless, korewin and friend #1. I missed it this morning.

to the beach.. thanks for you stories. just curious - what do you like/enjoy about fighting? You're trained in various forms of combat and you've been in many altercations. What is it about fighting that stimulates or intrigues you? Is it generally to prove a point to lineup bullies or is it a method of temporarily quelling some inner fire that burns within?

I'm just curious because fighting has always been something absolutely light-years away from anything that i'd ever want to be involved with.

But there are tons and tons of people who seem to actually enjoy fighting, as crazy as that sounds.

I enjoy getting beat up.

I enjoy the ark that is black.

Cool pics today.

Hmmm, should I keep gettin' fun waves or go get my face hit and bloody my knuckles on the beach? Hmmm.

i hear you 'to the beach'....

and friend #1....i paddled away from this
tool today and then he paddled up and began
talking shit all over again. so i paddled away again...

BUT just out of curiousity how many times does
one have to paddle away before one can go water polo
on their ass?

now i'm pitting out. sonofa...

to the beach...looks like friend #1 was on the right track while the rest of us misinterpretted. it's unfortunate, but it seems to me that many line-ups could use an unassuming enforcer to regulate would-be bullies. of course, in my experience, simply ignoring them as the rant away like children often works as well. it's a pacifist approach (that suits me).

to the beach - I have been surfing 25+ years and am a pretty aggressive surfer. I have surfed up and down both the east and west coast in both open to everyone and hyper local breaks. I know rules, respect, and how to play that game. Like I said, I'm pretty aggressive in the water but know respect for sure. I can't remember EVER having been invited to the beach. You have been invited 15 times. The problem is you.

That being said, your point is well taken to the folks that would invite you to the beach. The point being, you might just get what you ask for.

i enjoy funny cell phone rings and getting barreled and my doggy.

yeah bagel!

heres to earplugs and barrels!

cheers everyone.

I'm with 'to the beach' so some extent - I never go looking for trouble, give up waves and never drop in. I've not really had much grief around here, even during many crowded sessions at Fort Point (although had a few minor run ins at deadmans). Tho I guess TTB being invited to rumble 15 times is somewhat indictive of something else...

But the day some moron screams at me when HE is in the wrong - then puffs himself up and asks me to the beach - you'd better be damned sure I'll call his sorry little arse on it - mainly because anyone that stupid and insecure is not going to have the balls to back it up anyhow. That's just the way it is. And if it does I'm going to make damn sure I'll strangle the fucker with my leash and make him eat his board.

Don't get me wrong, I never ever go looking for trouble, but all the tales of these run in's with idiots who think they own the waves makes my blood boil.

Those are some serious charges. If the charger thinks that he can charge on you or anyone else who charges, than his ability to charge is conditional upon his charging chargeness of charge, not (and I repeat) not his lack of chargeness that is on, near, around, or close to his chargable charge words about charging. Have a good weekend charging chargables! You know I'll be charging like a good charging charger should charge...I'll be kickboarder towing in at Mavs...blindfolded...and with no booties. CHARGE!!!!

Not many pics today?

would you like some juitthhhhh???

Q. How wide is a person?

A. With arms outstretched, they are at least as wide as they are tall from finger tip to finger tip.

Korewin, that is a drag. I surf where I do partly to avoid that sort of thing. I almost never hit the north end.

In 20 years of surfing, I have had maybe 5 altercations in the water and they have only been some coarse words at most.

Sometimes you can't avoid the assholes. I was punched out on the way home from Macarthur BART for looking behind me when someone was running up the ramp. The guy appearently was mad that I was acting threatened when I was actually wondering what was going on. Unfortunately I made the mistake of saying something along the lines of "We don't have to hate eachother just because we're different."

Should have just stopped and let him go along his way. He might have just gotten fired, or turned down for a loan, or just was mad that day.

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Huh, I've never been invited to fight , must be 'cuz I look so incredibly intimidating. Even scarier than Klooless. Grrrrrrrrr...

My two cents. Most of the regulars on this blog have plenty to lose; career, bucks, family, reputation, etc. When I worked in a jail 25 years ago the guys in for assault had nothing to lose and were not the sharpest crayons in the box, to say the least. So getting in a fist fight on the beach with some jerk might be satisfying but it's probably not worth the risk.

"gone tube rideing"

Bruce...you sure you were "working" in the jail and you're not trying to hide some shady past? ; )

closest i've been to getting in a fight in the last year was last weekend at home in AG at a hick bar. it's usually a chill place but there was this super drunk cowboy swerving all over the place who didn't take a liking to my brother and i. we'd been there 5 minutes and he just walks up and rips off his shirt and gets in our face like "so that's how it is???!!!!!" with his fists all ready to punch. the dude was huge and barechested and everyone was staring at us like shit was gonna go down, but a bouncer stepped in at the last minute and took the guy outside. he was back inside 10 minutes later and i don't think he even remembered us.

i agree with e. fighting completely baffles me. i'm 32 years old and have yet to find reason for a fight.

people that fight, want to fight. and unfortunately I see way too many surfers flexing egos and expressing their 'dominance'. i try to view it as humorous because it upsets me to see it, but it is always uncalled for.

intolerance and aggressive behavior are traits that many possess, including our gov't - and as surfers all of us should be conscious enough to know the evil these traits can bring.

Anybody out for DP this morning mid-beach see yellow longboard guy with the neoprene skullcap rip, er glide, it up? He was catching mucho waves and made me wish I had brought a little bit more board with me. I gave him props when we were out of the water. Kdalle, was that you?

i think ive seen older yellow longboard guy hes good..

speaking of tribe called quest you should watch this video

http://www.surfline.com/video/vids/2004/dec/jsps/roseman_dl_qt.cfm

I've been verbally threatened at Ano, FP and the Jetty. All pretty minor stinkeye, "kook" yelling episodes that nevertheless ruined my sesh. At the Jetty i paddled into the whitewater to give this ripper the open face but he ended up doing a carving 360 and came right at me!! I apologized for being in his way but he yelled that i should "paddle down the beach, kook! Get out of my way." D'oh. I think it's pretty easy to avoid confrontation if you're sensitive to who's who out there. Don't rile the psycho's with the crazy look in their eye... they could be bluffing but they could be "to the beach" i've seen some gnarliness at FP over the last few years. 99% of the peeps at OB seem like chill, peaceful folk.

give a wave, paddle away from crowds, find your own peak.. all good lessons taught to me by my surfing elders.

wish i was surfing right now.

sick "shelly" photo bbr.

i have to work all weekend!! waa waaa!!

I like to eat donuts, play loud, distorted electric guitar, sit in the Jacuzzi with my girly, take off on glassy waves, chill, play drums, listen to my headphones while walking home.

Tag team action

E and Blakestah vs.
BVB and To the Beach

Sloat showers @1230pm tomorrow!

pro ho update: in the semi's of the oneill world cup, we will soon see if timmy reyes really has andy irons number or if the u.s. open was just a fluke on his home turf.

Kdalle is not that guy on the yellow Longboard.

Doof was surfing near him for a while and gave him hoots. Doof complimented one of his rides and he said it was the best ride he had had all year. At least someone was having fun today.

I almost paddled my LB out today. But I only get aggressive when I am on that board, so maybe it was for the better. I wouldn't want to be invited to the beach.

not interested in fighting.. though i'd be down with a jam-off.. last man ripping wins! We'd be brothers by the end.

sharkbait kicked my ass last week when i dropped in on her!! note her post says she's never BEEN invited, however she does INVITE and is quite thorough in her asswhoopin.

S.S., I will fight you if you want...

Nah, just kidding. You would kick my ass!

How about one of these? (and there is water involved so this counts as a "surfing pic")

the only fight i've ever got in surfing was with my board.

guess who won.
not me.

still pissed at that board... if i see it again.... i'll have to surf it...

i like ob. i've never felt threatened by anyone besides 8' @ 17. but we talked it through and now we are pals...

have a niceness weekend everyone.

How about a bikini-off?

sure, please post pics of the bikinis off...or just email 'em to me

Damn J, this is a great pic of you on vacation!

Kaiser, once again you have given stoke to the masses.

Bagel, yellow longboard guy with touque was young, so not the same guy that you saw.

Fat butts large ass steaming pussy. YEAH!!!!!!!
Made the twisted left, sucked the fat nippled right - . Angled left - ate of her burly but perfect ass - kept eating. Fondled her folding lips - held them - bit them kissed the hole and made it out.
Tonight is going to be a fuckfest.

i like bikinis

so it wasn't a dream....thank God i grew that moustache for the occasion.

What's that young rippers name who rides for Quiksilver and lives in SC? He was slaughtering the waves today. Skin Flute, and Bud Freitas were having fun in the water snaking every one on every wave. Skin Dog told my friend to "go take a time out in the penalty box." Then double seshed at a much more low key spot and one other guy was in the water. We hooted eachother on every wave. I had one the gnarliest beatings in my life today and got the typical "suit flush."

I heard bad vibe made three turns on a wave yesterday - I'm no match for that...

plus, I've been having nightmares about his threatening dog...

those chicks have some nice poopers!

Imagine a big one sliding out of one of those. Still attracted? Computer surfers are pansies, if you did ever take it to the sand you would be whooped. Not by me, I'm a computer woosie as well.

Blake and I? And E? For what? High tea at noon?
Not hardly. I'd rather surf than fight. There's always going to be someone trying to beat you down - lot of mercenaries out there - beware. I avoided a street brawl the other day - not worth him going to the hospital and me jail for firing my trusty flare gun into his gaping mouth hole.
Packing fat heat.

..more like the 3 of you in one steamy blog-love triangle, with fins rotating all over the place. Sounds like not too much has changed around here, except the waves have gotten better and the attitudes worse.

Surfing be fun!

Plenty of clean tasties this am until it started getting bumpy about noon. Lotsa heads, but no bad vibes that I saw. Managed to stay out there over three hours---klooless tip o' the day: running tights. You heard it here first.

I really like your website.

Thank you.

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