At the beginning of December, we spent a day and night in Santa Cruz. The surf was flat so we enjoyed a walk along West Cliff Dr., had lunch at Kelly’s Bakery, and stumbled into a new shop (well, new to me) in the Swift St. Courtyard called Sawyer Land & Sea Supply. As is […]
We’re here, we park next to you, and we’re not going home
Trying to get this blog going again with a redesign, and something fired me up today. Read on. Santa Cruz Waves is usually quite good at showcasing the strong and prideful community of the world-class Santa Cruz surf scene, and the people that make it so… communal. Did you post this drivel (You can’t surf […]
On ‘The Twenty’
I spent five years of college in San Luis Obispo, most of which included surfing everywhere imaginable in SLO County. While my friends and I had plenty of great waves and sessions nearby, it’s also a fickle stretch of coastline that lent itself to many, many disappointing drives back and forth to the beach. So […]
Mt. Diablo, the Devil indeed
Team Whitney (me and Scott) had been talking for some time about meeting for a couple of lengthy training hikes this summer. He lives in the Sierra foothills so Mt. Diablo seemed like a great midway point for us, not to mention a sufficient training hike for the real deal in August. We had no […]