Anyone else get some today...?

**liv2ski** · 11-01-2012, 04:02 PM

^^^^Damn it and in So Cal in has been waist high all week. Fuck, I love the weather down here compared to up there and the drive to Mammoth is likely about the same, but north of Point Conception is where a surfer wants to live.

**Piggity** · 11-01-2012, 06:15 PM

Watching the contest and the conditions in SC are lookin kinda sunny with a few glassy nugs rolling through

**icelanticskier** · 11-01-2012, 09:16 PM

this sandy swell continues to improve. cleaner today, still easily head high+ sets at the rocks. tomorrow should still be shoulder high with better winds, better lined up than today. 5'@13 right now. saturday should still be fun.

stoked!!!

rog

**Ottime** · 11-02-2012, 08:34 AM

^^^^^that does sound fun. Good to hear you still surf.

Originally Posted by Piggity

Watching the contest and the conditions in SC are lookin kinda sunny with a few glassy nugs rolling through

Meh. It was much better out side town. Let them pros have the lane. My little guy loves the bleachers and thinks the high wire rover cam is the best thing. We were there yesterday and Kerr had a nice double air wave. The crowd cheered. My guy was sure everyone was stocked that the camera was moving down the wire. Off to check it out this morning.

**Piggity** · 11-02-2012, 09:08 AM

That high wire rover cam does sound cool, kid has his priorities set right. Yeah no doubt there were better places up there, i could be wrong but glassy conditions in the afternoon doesn't sound common, plus sunshine? apocalypse might be coming. I kid.

Rog, sounds fun. Break out your cell phone and take a photo.....or it didn't happen

**Ottime** · 11-02-2012, 05:57 PM

Town faces south and has huge kelp beds, both which help keep it glassy. Typical win is NW, so it is tucked behind points. I'd say it is glassy, in town, in the afternoon a least 70% of the time. OTOH, we have had light winds the past few days and it should stay easy through the next swell arriving some time Sunday. A quicky.

Tapatalk keeps auto correcting my stoked into stocked. Ha.

**icelanticskier** · 11-02-2012, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by Piggity

Rog, sounds fun. Break out your cell phone and take a photo.....or it didn't happen

my phone is one of those old flippers, no photo taking option. if i find some, i'll link em in.

today was sofaking good! will be in the water at 7am for more. 4.5@12/13 seconds still. perfect for uncrowded rye rocks and sawyers.

ott, i still surf, just not the chunky junky days if i can help it, luckily we don't get too many of those. clean days? fkna, all the time, woot!

rog

**icelanticskier** · 11-03-2012, 07:57 AM

fuck me was this morning good!

paddled out at the rocks with friends matt and jim in the dark for 1st light. tide was nice and low and getting lower. the waves were perfect, no other way to explain them. having one of THE best lefts on the east coast to ourselves this morning in chest/shoulder+ with power is just priceless.

crowds are gone, and swell still in the water. so many buckets were thrown i'm surprised there was any water left in the cove

do anything you want on em type of waves, over and over and over..........

tomorrow? we shall see......

time to clock in

rog

**jtran10** · 11-03-2012, 09:12 AM

Heading to the Hansen ski swap then for a surf, probably at Pipes to capitalize on the WNW leftovers

**Ottime** · 11-03-2012, 12:56 PM

Swell pretty much died off up here. I have a buddy out there this morning looking. More is on the way, and maybe snow by week's end.

Originally Posted by icelanticskier

my phone is one of those old flippers, no photo taking option. if i find some, i'll link em in.

today was sofaking good! will be in the water at 7am for more. 4.5@12/13 seconds still. perfect for uncrowded rye rocks and sawyers.

ott, i still surf, just not the chunky junky days if i can help it, luckily we don't get too many of those. clean days? fkna, all the time, woot!

rog

That must be one of the oldest flip phones. And i'm just giving ya shit. But, what I do love about ME is that you can often find good, clean waves on the chunky, junky days if the swell is big enough to start filtering inside the various inlets. So, I still think your lazy. I bet you will soon find yourself only making left served turns and soon after that, you'll need to trade in your rocket for one of those new jet boards. OTOH, my buddy who was out searching all week found his best waves on Thursday, so, maybe your just smart and saving up your energy. But that is not fun to spew on the internet.

**icelanticskier** · 11-03-2012, 06:18 PM

Originally Posted by Ottime

That must be one of the oldest flip phones. And i'm just giving ya shit. But, what I do love about ME is that you can often find good, clean waves on the chunky, junky days if the swell is big enough to start filtering inside the various inlets. So, I still think your lazy. I bet you will soon find yourself only making left served turns and soon after that, you'll need to trade in your rocket for one of those new jet boards. OTOH, my buddy who was out searching all week found his best waves on Thursday, so, maybe your just smart and saving up your energy. But that is not fun to spew on the internet.

i am definitely lazy when it comes to searching for good waves or snow. a low hanging fruit kinda guy. luckily i have my shit pretty well dialed when it comes to finding both with ease.

i said last week that it'd be thursday before things got good.

ended up making the mistake of pulling up the buoy, then the cam at work today just 3 hours into my work shift. then i looked and saw that 4 more people were coming in at 2pm. hmmmm, high tide.....where to go.......still swell, still perfect off shores.......YORK!!!!

put in an additional 2 hours of perfectly formed south of the restaurant a-frames this afternoon. only 4 others out from nubble all the way to libbys, what that? over a mile of shoreline? not a bad spread. fkna love maine!

4 hours work, 4 hours surf. good day, good week. EC baby

hopefully somethin left tomorrow. probably not tho as it's my day off

rog

**Ottime** · 11-04-2012, 08:23 AM

New swell filling in. Round one in the water at about 5@14, larger, longer period round two should fill in late today. SE Papa went over 20' with long periods. This should filter on down through the state. Plus sized tomorrow, up the coast, for sure.

**icelanticskier** · 11-04-2012, 09:16 AM

all done here unless you gotta 10' log.

more by thursday or so. need to rest anyway.

get some ott!!!

rog

**Piggity** · 11-04-2012, 09:23 AM

Got some HH+ Friday night at a SD's finest beach break. Grinding emerald green pits with the low tide, kinda closing out but still fun. Been laid up with a stomach bug since Friday night and hoping to get better for this next round. Santa Ana's starting today and supposed to get stronger tomorrow, hoping to make quick recovery so I can score some tomorrow

**icelanticskier** · 11-04-2012, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Piggity

Got some HH+ Friday night at a SD's finest beach break. Grinding emerald green pits with the low tide, kinda closing out but still fun. Been laid up with a stomach bug since Friday night and hoping to get better for this next round. Santa Ana's starting today and supposed to get stronger tomorrow, hoping to make quick recovery so I can score some tomorrow

love various wave descriptions, sounds lovely. better than pics sometimes, leaves some to the imagination. hope ya feel better soon!

rog

**Long duc dong** · 11-04-2012, 11:35 AM

Surprising fun in HB on Friday. I surfed from 9-11, as the tide was going up. I expected chest high, but it was shoulder-head and clean. I surfed between tower 10 and tower 12, and found long, lined-up lefts. I could not believe how lined up it was, it reminded me of surfing Barbedwires down at Trestles. There were some good rights too, but I went left. It was crowded, but so spread out that I was able to pick off plenty of waves with little difficulty. The areas right near the pier were firing, but packed to the gills. It was as serendipitous as it gets, as I really didn't expect it to be that good.

Saturday I surfed newps, and it was waist high, but worth going out. I probably should have gone back to HB.

The water is still fine for a long sleeved spring. I doubt that will last much longer, but you have to appreciate it.

**Piggity** · 11-04-2012, 04:15 PM

Nice LDD, agreed that Friday was surprisingly fun. Sounds like you got a better tide than I got, there were some makeable shacks also some closeouts shacks with the super low tide. Lots of longshore current and rips

better than pics sometimes, leaves some to the imagination.

I hear ya, I have photos from friday but only posted a verbal report. Sometimes photos are good for confirming the memory bank, so many session and so many waves kinda blurr after a while

**Ottime** · 11-04-2012, 09:48 PM

Well that was fun. After two buddies bailing (talk about lazy) I headed up the coast this afternoon. Sunny, warm, light north texture. The miles literally had no where to park (okay, I was cruising by at 60mph, but still). So many folks out on route 1 today. My usual ledge looked buried under swell. Bet it was good earlier. Maybe 10, 15, 20 guys out at Scotts. The rare big sets catching pretty much everyone way inside. As the second swell was filling in, I grabbed the mini gun. A 7'6". Paddled out, sat way out the back, 20, 30, 40 yards out past the pack. Caught a shit ton of waves. Not the best, most perfect day out there. There was some weirdness. But that just worked in my favor, as I dusted off the cob webs and paddled into the biggest waves I've yet had this season. The better ones were DOH+ for the drop, with a nice, fast, 8-10' wall on the second bowl. Felt good. And it is nice to paddle into waves of little consequence and getting used to paddling down the ledge. Now, when some real swell hits, I have my legs. Sort of.

**icelanticskier** · 11-04-2012, 11:19 PM

pics from this week.

not the best week this fall, but pretty dang good.

http://www.ralphspic.com/newsletter.html

rog

**jtran10** · 11-05-2012, 12:32 PM

Went out at Terrmar this morning pre work. Weird that by 7AM it felt like full-on mid morning with the warmth and time change.

Offshores were fairly strong early morning, but calmed towards the end of the session. Kept the wait high swell very clean. As the tide rose just a little bit it seemed like the waves just stopped breaking. Still, 4-5 really good, super long waves on the LB this morning.

Probably should've woken up a couple minutes earlier and drove a bit further south. That's the goal for later this week if some new swell arrives.

Piggity, any spots in Encinitas you don't mind giving up that are good on 4 ft+ tides? I guess it's time to start expanding my knowledge of more southern spots.

**Ottime** · 11-05-2012, 03:32 PM

I like words too, but being useless in my mouth, I'll give a few pictures instead. They are, technically, worth a 1000 words.

The moment that you think, yes.

Loving the foucs

more at the blog

Not really taking any of the contest. Figure there is plenty of footage of that already. There must have been 200 dslrs down there. And plenty of big white lenses that make a 70-200 look like a girls penis.

**Piggity** · 11-05-2012, 11:00 PM

Dig the 2nd shot. Why does it look like he has an over sized head and a bulging back? Must be the angle

Jtran, go to D street and walk a couple hundred yards south until you find an empty peak. It can closeout on Longer period swells but it's a fun punchy wave on high tide. There is also a wave on the solana/Cardiff line that is fun on high tide but it gets crowded and fairly competitive, especially on bigger swells

Caught an hour at lunch today, conditions were sunny and glassy all day with the occasional wave rolling through, kinda inconsistent for my liking. Still patiently waiting for a real NW and a legit Santa Ana, neither have delivered yet.

**Ottime** · 11-07-2012, 09:41 AM

No window to surf the past two days, but it was about as good a it gets for small to mid sized surf here in SC yesterday. Up the coast the swell was clean and winds calm. I can surf today but it will be smaller and the nw will be blowing. Oh well. Snow for Friday