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Puerto Escondido
- Thread starter kool-aid
- Start date
affordable
short trip from US
intense tubes
Proximity to other world class and or rippable waves.
It's either your thing or it's not.
Good surfer from around here took a board to the groin and split his pelvis down there. lots of hardware holding his skeleton together . . .
Many - and at least a few deaths/year too.
It's weird you don't hear about them more in surf media.
And similar to the Wedge, plenty have ended up in "the chair."
If other canyon-fed beachbreaks on North America's Pacific coast are any indication, it's because in season, it's very hard to get it completely unrideable. When you live in TX or FL you don't want to get disappointed on a trip. I don't buy the so many better waves for a second and I bet the ones that you are claiming are better have far fewer HH-DOH days and infinity crowds if they're not beachbreaks where beatdowns of the inside and cleanup variety are routinely issued.
However crowded the beachbreak that will fuck you up is, the point and reef is way more crowded, way more drop-ins, requires a swell where a flat day at a Mainland beach is chest-head tubes and a small swell is somewhere between firing and epic. You can run to other spots if swell and you have cranking surf as your worst-case scenario swell-wise. Win-win.
The next closest waves that good in the core June-August East Coast GTFO season are in Northern Chile, chilly, crowded with competitive bodyboarders, and less forgiving if you eat sh!t IMHO. West Oz and South Africa are missions and also chilly. Indo looks like a fucking zoo unless you go to some B-grade Sumatra/Java or something and burn piles of money and days travelling.
The proximity, consistency, Mexi bus logistics, and expense situations are all Grade A.
I forgot to add that it's a 5-10 minute ride to the airport.
That's such an important factor -- the three hour slogs from airport to coast in some Centro locales are too much for my fussy ass.
. Even some nice clear water for spearfishing around the Northern areas.
Buddy of mine was on a tow-board on a big day there...was in a massive barrel that closed on him...felt his leg just explode, took a couple more on the head with his leg dangling. Ski driver grabbed him and went straight to the beach. Ex-pat doc there did the best he could with the leg then buddy-cat had to spend some time in Mexico City. Then got flown home in a Lear at low altitude...definitely life-changing..
I think they were worried about the pressure difference with blood clots...something like that anyway...Low altitude?