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  1. Icu812

    650-Foot High Megatsunami in Greenland

    Excellent video! The last Indo surf trip I went on we went from Padang to Java. The surf went flat at the end so we went out to Krakatau and at the time it was possible to hike up onto Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatoa), which we did. Super cool! Right now there's a 2km exclusion zone around Anak...
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    Hey Firebird? You working this? Fire Line fire ~ San Bernadino

    There was a nasty fire runnin' through homes in SE Clear Lake today, just glad there wasn't any wind on it but a bunch of structures were lost. The seemingly endless heatwave continues...so Firebird, we're getting a brand new Type VI from Humboldt, how far will $190k go? Probably at least half...
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    Anyone else remember "The Surf Report"

    Anybody remember SurFax? I saved this run from 1/18/98-2/23 because Steve who ran it had the best comments. This one was particularly memorable...
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    Honey! I’m home! Or To Turbo Honey, or not to Turbo Honey? That is the question….

    Highest I ever got was after ingesting a spoonful of my wife's Cherry Pie OG 'funny honey'...she takes small buds and soaks 'em in some high proof alcohol, all the way up to Ever Clear...lets it sit for a few weeks then simmers the alcohol off, mixes it with honey, simmers some more...Home...
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    Any of you fools up for Burning Man?

    Lots of people have Starlink out there, can make calls through whatsapp, signal, etc. Last year was the first time I actually got on the 2m ham band due to the rain not-really-an-emergency event, there are some local repeaters out there.
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    Any of you fools up for Burning Man?

    I dunno man, 'people say' this or that, whatever...I've been to BM 20 times, flown in at least a dozen of those times (sure beats that exodus photo). Haven't figured out if I'll go this year, but it's still a possibility, tickets are cheap. I could tell stories all day long of all the cool...
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    HTs - What's it like?

    Well, yeah, just on Panaitan there are the 2 hairball waves, Apocalypse and One Palm (wetsuit, gloves, booties, helmet) but there are a couple others, a right and a left, that are way more user friendly. Up in the Telos region, Sigata Island was lots of fun, Churches...oh man, now I wanna go...
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    HTs - What's it like?

    Yes, that's Apocalypse! Our captain, Scuzz, the best surfer on the our boat, paddled over there and looked over a few ledges, paddled back to the skiff and goes 'that's not a wave, mate!'...you can see how shallow it is right inside and of course made famous by Timmy Turner and crew back in the...
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    HTs - What's it like?

    I'm right there with ya--just hit 73 and I think back to my last trip to Indo, that was in 2015, man, I was a youngster then! They called me the 'grommet'...I'll take it...it was an epic trip too, 22 days, went one way all the way from Padang to Cilegon on Java. Surfed Krui, went out to Enggano...
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    The Random Photo Thread - The Sequel

    Wait, bugs?
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    Official Bird & Nature Post

    Came across a doe and her fawn in the middle of the road yesterday, momma sauntered off but the baby just laid down in the middle of the road as if to hide. It laid very still so I got down on my belly and took this photo.
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    *** Official Backpacking Thread ***

    Anybody ever been to Beck Lakes in Inyo NF? We're headed there in August. Always excited to get up into the Sierra, we're so lucky to have that range here in California. We went to Texas for the big eclipse and while that wasn't that great due to clouds (in Texas? Who knew?), we did make a trip...
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    HTs - What's it like?

    They don’t call the reef ‘the surgeon’s table’ for nothing…a buddy of mine had his femoral artery punctured there and his buddy saved his life by sticking his hand in there and stopping the bleeding…gnarly…oh, and the surf trip was OVER….when I surfed it when you got in the barrel (the easy...
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    Norther Lights

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    Norther Lights

    Couple of shots I got last night--no light pollution here! In '83 I saw my first aurora...one night we were playing poker and our friend came in and exitedly exclaimed: "Eureka is on fire!!" That was Cycle 21and the aurora was big that year too.The HF ham bands are dead with this too but we're...