E's Surf Report

ha ha first post beeches

nice one e..did you say Jacuzzi!?!! i like how i read how it was shit everywhere from here to sc proper but you still paddled out and scored a few north of town..nieece

ya you photo guys rule..but bruce this photo confuses me, is the rock on the inside of these guys or are they surfing sloppy small potato patch

sweet photo none the less sorry so big dont know how to post the small ones..

bagel i think i'm going to the giants game with greg and your boss today... you should cruise

radical bbr, i just heard about that...allready have plans tonight but now im bummed, that would be cool. ..youll dig scott i took him on a surf trip once even though he doesnt surf..extremly bad ass artist too..

I wish we had more pointbreaks here.

Hunters Point goes off on occasion.

Hunters Point? Bummed is talking about point breaks, not point and shoot.

First waves in a week; I was the only one out (??) at "the new Lindy" 9-10:30. Disorganized, yes, but totally surfable, not very blown yet, sunny, etc. Water temp has dropped five or six degrees since last week; coulda used a hood.

Skate Question:

I just got a long skate last night, which is new to me. Been doing some downhill runs. What do you do with all that speed? Do you need to power slide to slow down/stop.
Board is fun but gets going really fast quickly and at the moment I'm a bit out of control. Its 43" so not giant but way bigger than anything I've ever had before.

Any plant dorks out there have any idea when and with what the park service is going to reveg the plots by vfw's? native species? Can i help?

I heard benches. The guy asked me to move my car when they were tearing the ice plants out, I asked what they were going to put there and he said benches. OOOO, benches.

They are planning on planting Lessingia and some native Lupine, the lessingia is the same grasses as on most dunes. The iceplant is a bummer, shit is oata control. There was a plan at one time to fell all the western trees in the presidio, the Montery Pine, Cypress and Eucaliptus, but I think they vetoed that one. I'm pretty sure that the Friend of the urban foest is working with the Surfrider Foundation to do the planting... Sean @ Surfrider SF is the man with a plan.

plant dork
we, the collective recreationalists of OB, hightly recommend the planting of cannabis sativa - useful to make canvas and rope stc.

I hope they aren't putting i benches and more freaken concrete.

E, nice that you got some the past few..

I just bought a new tufflite channel islands board last night and I'm planning on taking a 5 day trip around fourth of july to mainland mexico or possibly nicarauga.

Any tips on mainland mexico spots during this time of year. Guerrero? Colima? Oaxaca?

I'm an intermediate surfer who finds puerto escondido to be kinda' scary. Someplace mellower and less crowded would be the ideal with consistent surf during this time of year. thanks for any tips!

Tucker,

If you're into slowing down and slaloming hills in the Bay Area, you can buy a specialty wheel called the Xtreme S/S Super Slick (http://www.a2xtreme.com/2000/xtwheels.htm). They're super expensive (about $80 for a set of 4 with shipping) and most shops don't carry them, so you have to order them over the web. But I can tell you that once you have these wheels on your longboard, along with Randall 2 trucks or similar, no hill will be too steep. They grip so well you can lean way forward, or way back, just like snowboarding or just like bottom turns at Noriega in the fall. Next disadvantage, these wheels wear out quickly. So it becomes an expensive habit. I discovered this type of downhill boarding in 1999 and started taking the 6 Parnassus up to the top of the Sunset, then I'd slolom down "backside 9" - 9th ave, in heaven the whole way. You don't need to powerslide, and little rocks and gravel just shoot away from the wheels. Once you get good at it, you never need to bomb hills, just make progressively sharper and harder turns the steeper the grade. I could go on, but my work is done here....

Jahmir, I might be heading to Guerrero/Colima in a week and half.

I might have some current conditions for you there. Loon just got back from there as well.

Lupine, the OB Lupine are actually yellow

Lessengiar

Switch those the second pic is the Lupine

Tucker, on those hills just carve hard to slow your roll. One missed carve and you are speedin' downhill. Or as my irie buddy said one hill "damn, you gotta caaarrrd haaarrrve on that one"

cannabis sativa

Cmon Toker that is one weak ass little nubby, you can do better than that...

Slow time.

I meant to include this.

DOH!

Cool, thanks for the advice. I think I just need more time to get some control. So fun.

yeah, tokey - and it's a male. Oh, shit! Said too much / my misspent youth is showing.

Tokey-

That chick is a Man.

dennis, care to talk about what you are doing in your garden?

How can you tell thats a male from that picture?

Seems nice, as that thing is growing pure buds.

Goodmorning - The street sales guy on Haight told me they were blueberry bulbs.

i actually went on a poppy-picking mission with this random dude in Laos one time. they looked just like that photo Dennis posted. We collected a shitload of that gummy stuff after hiking for a few days through all these tribal-style villages. Old school style! Later we smoked some of the fresh opium. It was pleasurable for a few hours but for 3 days afterwards i was grumpy and irritable and pissy.. i don't dig on opiates. i like Laos though.

This is a nice left point. Works rarely

snoop dog - trust me, those are male flower clusters and it looks like a coupla of them may have already opened up, wrecking the possibilities for that patch to remain sinsimilla.

I've been out of the loop for a long time but I used to smoke hash with opium mixed in it. Soooo melooooow. Kinda had a marbled look to it. Is it still on the market?

tucker,
try smaller diameter wheels, like the kryptonic route 59's. they are accelerate noticably slower than 65 diameter wheels and above. nice for tighter streets. plus you can use smaller risers, lowering your center of gravity even more.

tucker, the key is to "carve" down the hills. Unless speed is your thing. If that's the case, tighten those trucks and bomb that shit. E, that's knarly. Good on scorin on 1. I thought I'd be grumpy after selling my car since I have no means to get to the beach. I'm not though, just stoked it's been so windy. If anyone's looking for a good backpacking backpack, check out the Jansport Klamath. It seriously pairs up with some of the rip-off $400 bags. You can find 'em for $100-150 online. Stoked. Bored? Check out David Cross stand-up "Shut up, you fucking baby!" Good time passer.

ian.. you're farking turbo psyched on your trip!! It's going to be all time!

niiiiiice

Jimmie, how does my closet look?

tucker, just practice tight turns. Wheel slides will come with time, and once mastered it becomes pretty easy to scrub speed unless it is Indian summer and the pavement gets hot and you're running 76mm red kryptos and then you're on your own.

Not bad for indoors. ;) Now just let those calyxes swell up and the pistals shrivel a bit and you'll be good to harvest.

song of the day: 'lost in laos' by Dengue Fever.

they played last week at the rickshaw stop. that little chick is hot! and the white dude sings in khmer!!

ok, time to boast....i just spent 4 days down in del mar surfing some great waves - in trunks. stoke is still oozing out of me. plus, mitch's surf shop let me demo a SWEET Pavel Rainbow quan fish for 3 days! and for free!! that shop rocks.

O.K. no more gardening tips, I feel like a hypocrite. Nothing wrong with the ocaissional toke for those that can handle it, but I'm a recovering addict.

Ian, I'm feeling like my two months in Central America is an extended weekend...

anyone know who the main contact is for OB resoration/development? i have heard sean at surfrider before, but what about the city stufff, great highway and land ownership stuff? who makes the decisions about which changes to make? or is it design by many committees? camels all around?

all those concrete ramps along the beach are artifacts from the days of horse/carriage access, i thought.

brrrrrrrrrrr waddell was cold. i was late for work cause i spent too long in the hottub.

great chilling with you e! ya'll come back now real soon. bagel, you should rock the sf2sc challenge sometime.

Mmmmmmm dollar cheese day.

Speaking of bands, the Who have been active lately. Not so much with music as with health activism. All the headlines lately: WHO endorses World Blood Donor Day, WHO is updating its table showing cumulative numbers of human cases of H5N1 avian influenza, WHO also provides a secretarial service for the network as part of its Alert and Response Operations within CSR.

Nice to see the guys giving back isn't it?

You're joking anon, right?

Ocean Beach is under that jurisdition of the National Park system. It takes advice from the CCSF Ocean Beach Task Force and Dept. of the Environment as well as the Mayor and Supervisors but in the end it is their decision since the area was handed over by the city. Ad hoc groups such as Surfrider and Friends of Ocean Beach are also peripherally in the mix. It can be very Kafkaesque trying to get anything done.

Short surf by a Fort this morning. Confused to say the least (me and the swell).

Words for the day: Blind Blake
(no connection to a frequent poster)

tips for the evening go out ???

While looking for some old pictures of the seawall, I found one of this old church (made of horse-drawn cars) on 47th St, about 1908, note that's a good 3 blocks from the water's edge, and look at that sand, sweet sand-bar forming sand.

cool--thanks, kdalle. do you have any idea when the bathrooms/sloat lot were constructed?

for el grupo: if the sloat lot was demo'd and entirely reconsidered--i mean the entire southern GH area, everything is up for grabs here--what would you want to see in its place? nothing? just dunes? two spigots and a bench? beach chalet II? a surfcheck drivethru? (oh, wait, already have that one...)

i'm thinking about taking on sloat as a little fantasy architecture/landscape project. they're going to have to do something there eventually, once a few more feet of asphalt erode off... consider this contextual research...

Actually, that Who thing was my post and yes I was kidding.

oakley seems to have found a new rare element. unobtainium? http://www.fogdog.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1991984
wtf?

The Great Highway should end at Sloat and the Highway between Sloat and Skyline removed extending Fort Funston out to Sloat. If this wre to happen it would lighten up the crowds and make the beach bigger btween Sloat and Funston, If the park service doesn't do it the ocean will take things into her own hands.

mexi's right mother o will take care of the sloat lot---what we need a little help on is that restroom funk hole at judah ... mount a battering ram on the front of the j- train, let's get busy.

but if there's no parking lot how can i surf?

I called the Public Utilities this am cuz of that storm overflow structure at Vicente on the beach. That thing has become a real hazard. The railings are rotted away leaving razor edges, a manhole cover is missing from the upper section giving a 10 foot drop into a caged stink-box, and the sand has completely disappeared under it. Someone walked between the two big pipes feeding into it the other day and fell through. There is only packed sand in the middle but it looks solid.

otf - my tip for the evening go out is lower your expectations! i am thinking of doing the same.

the greater P-town area looked doable yesterday afternoon.. big and whooly.

the jetty was tiny but smooth.

you oughta see the Vicente storm drain during a hard rain and combined sewer overflow. Crap comes pouring out of there like it is a gigantic firehose. Crap making a fountain 30 feet into the air for no one to see because it is pouring rain. It is a scary fearsome sight.

If you remove the GH around south of Sloat, you better do something with the traffic flow from Sloat to the bypass of the current road. There is plenty of space over there behind the zoo but I highly doubt the city would expand the road over there. Without an expansion of the road there, the GH will not move for a while.

Bad news folks, but as the ocean takes more and more chunks out of Sloat, a sea wall becomes more the likelihood, and not managed retreat (as Surfrider and many others support). Get ready to mobilize and make your voice heard, this will become an issue for public comment soon enough. Solid structure (sea wall) = complete beach erosion and no more surf at Sloat.

ah! adam, i think you and i talked a little about this last spring. didn't we? who was it who had proposed an idea to scoot the GH inland and run it around that supersecret rivermouth?

moving the road inland is feasible, in my little dreamworld. putting the dunes back is the only way to keep the surf and renaturalize the erosion process, from what i understand. but do you think there should be any structure at sloat? near the ocean's edge or in the dunes? bear in mind that i'm leaning in the direction of feasible, real-world scenarios...well, without consideration of title, deed, politics, cost...heh...but traffic (both foot and surfer-carrying cars) is of concern.

In the most recent West Portal Monthly (neighborhood paper) there is an article regarding the beach erosion. A study regarding sand movement is in process and it appears that the powers that be are favoring a soft solution (a combination of sand and rocks) and a seawall is not under consideration.

The bathroom at Sloat was built in the late 80's along with the wastewater treatment plant, the expansion of the GH and the Aves seawall. That was also when they filled in the tunnels.

Personally I think if they had left the pier up at 2nd parkin lot it would have acted like a groin and reduce the erosion. More importantly it would had left those killer sandbars that formed there during those years.

Oops, I meant EARLY 80's.

Okay, I'm in the market for a new vehicle, primarily for surf use. I've narrowed it down to a full-size SUV or a cab-over full-size pickup. I plan to be hauling up to two boards at a time, with a combined weight of perhaps fifteen pounds. And that's BEFORE you add wetsuit, leash, AND wax. So should I aim for an engine somewhere in the 5 liter region, right?

Those lots get sandy too. Full-time 4wd, obviously. 8" lift enough? How many searchlights would be optimal for surfing-lot purposes?

Thanks!

Tucker-

Taking up skating at 25yr plus is very difficult. Might be as hard as surfing at that age. Definitely more painful. Fuck I hurt too.

Carving is fun but getting a board similar to the shape when you actually skated is even better. Plus you dont have to lug something as long as you are into every shop, bar or buddy's home. I dont mean go out and buy a Hammerhead or ALVA although those still are availible and fun, but something that crusies but that you can still use if you were to go to some banks or a park. Older Powells and d-town shapes are also very good for avanue runs as long as you have some nice soft larger wheels like the ones suggested before. Tail gaurd helps too. Plenty of modern skate companies have "old school" "geezer shapes" which are rad. Mine is a 8.25 X32.5 AntiHERO. I really dont do the flipity to go any smaller. Cant go wrong with some Old big 169 indies and some wheels larger than 54mm.

Like in surfing longboarders suck!!! HAHA nah it's fun from time to time and with groups of buds.

I Need to work on my all my skilz badly!!!!

thanks again, kdalle. good to know...

Flap, you are SO SOUL BRO. Woothefuckhoo.
Shut your flapping mouth. Recede like the tide, back to where you came.

Ian, your spolied brat posts are getting a little tired. HOW MANY FUCKING TIMES do we have to read about your trip, your backpack, or how stoked you are about your trip and backpack. HAVE AN AWESOME TRIP BRO, for the 107th time.

careful shopper, I'd go with one of those new Hummers. The lift should be enough to get you over the curb south of sloat and it's got more than enough juice to carry the quivers of you and your boys. plus, it's got tons of space for extra gas cans when you're making the long trip down to Cowell's.

you may also want to consider Land Cruisers and Suburbans. They seem sufficient enough and I've seen dudes using them effectively as surf vehicles.

i'm the above anon

this is your new surf vehicle

board storage : check
4WD : check
8 inch lift : double check
search lights : check
and bonus - sleep in cab to get first wave

KindaTiredofSomeShit,

Don't be a kook cause you can't sport the skills with the ladies, can't go on a trip cause you ain't got a backpack or soul.

And get some sleep if you're tired punk ass whiner.

You one of those flaily can't-surfy inside guys or something always in people's way or what?

uh oh...

WAAAAAAAAAHHHH WAAAHH. Spoiled Brat? Far from it. Why don't you just skip over my post then? Or why don't you ditch your lame job and try something new in life? Yeah I'm stoked on my trip, and I know people on here like to travel too. So don't get mad at people trying help other people. Bitter Barbara. Oh yeah, guess what? I'll probably mention it another 107 times. I leave July 5th, deal with i until then. By the way, I'll be posting while I'm traveling too.

For the record though, your post was pretty funny and had me chuckling to myself.

I kinda quit surfing when I moved 15 miles inland. Driving to surf seems wastefull, selfish and a little too Amerikkan. Every once in a while I take the drive, but only if I bike commute 90% the rest of the time.

Surfers with big ass SUV's and trucks who drive every single f_ing day to linda mar, from OB no less, kind of irritate me, but hey, this is the USA.

You guys realize the roundtrip from Redwood City to Santa Cruz is 130 miles? From OB it is something like 200 miles? G-zus, that's a lot of f_ing miles to catch 5 or so little shitty waves.

Anyway, no one listens to me, so keep up your wastefullness and build a new parking lot at Surfers beach or wherever the fuck.

Ian, you're the man bro. i know you worked your ass off to pay for this trip, going to school too right? fucking enjoy it. way to L I V E. make the most of our days.

Ian, tell me about your trip, bro!

I already figure you have a backback...

cheers!

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don't forget the Electro-optics Package

Man that was fun!

I didn't realize how jones I was until I got out this pm and poached a few. Ahhhh. I can tell by the posts too. Life is miserable when you're a dope fiend surfer and you can't get a fix. Good luck, search out a main line, there's still some waves to be had.

saw some guy's mitsu truck with its driver side door open in the lot across beach chalet... the hobos are on the loose

flap -> shoot me an email iane at sfsu dot edu

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On biking and surfing, the guy that brought foam and fiber-glass construction (as well as hydrodynamic design, especially the fin) to the surfboard was a guy named Bob Simmons. He got into surfing after getting his arm F'ed-up in a bicycling accident. He made his own foam blanks in the backyard. Dude was a brilliant engineer. After study navigation charts and ship's logs, he moved to the North Shore and was one of the first people to ride Sunset. He got around the islands on his bicycle. Crazy life that guy lead.

http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/simmons_bob.cfm

anger is an energy.

nice quality to laugh at one self ian. btw have a great trip!

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