saturday OB south swell

kook sandals

these babies cost me $35 and will save me millions in blown out booties over the years! the only downside is that Joan is embarrased to be seen with me when I'm wearing them. They look hot with socks too.
 

slop slayer

 
 
 
 

my weekend in photos

super early dawn patrol on Friday north of Santa Cruz was well worth it, some fun south swell to test drive my new quad. fast and loose, lots of fun. camping with Joan and Gus at China Camp on Friday night, smaller but fun surf back home on saturday. Sunday OB was blown out and small, but I surfed for 2 hours anyway, what else is there to do around here?
 
 
 
 

custom quad

local Santa Cruz shaper Wu Wallace made me this sweet little 5'9" quad. i still need to get a set of Future fins for it, so I didn't get to surf it this morning, but I'm picking up a pair on my way home tonight and hopefully will get to test drive the board before dinner. Otherwise, anyone down for dawn patrol somewhere in north Santa Cruz tomorrow?
 
 
 
 

knee high slop & a seal

about sums it up.
 
 
 

Big Basin backpacking; crappy Monday surfing

rather than spending the weekend depressed about the shitty waves, i went on another backpacking trip, this time with Jon and Gilly through Big Basin. We did ~15 miles, climbed some falls, had epic stick battles, played some bones, ate some spam musubi, did some Red Bull & whiskey fueled trail running and overall had an awesome time. Can't wait to do it again. It was a hell of a lot more fun than dawn patrol this morning in closed out waist high slop.