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Aug 28, 2003
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I haven't been on here enough to know what you all think/thought of prop k, but I think from a purely self-interested surfers perspective I *think* I dig it. One of the worst drivers of crowds is when people drive up and down the length of the beach and end up paddling out 'wherever looks good' which I think in practice is where most of the people are already. When I lived right on great highway I'd sometimes get in my car and drive the length before parking where I started, felt so goddamn stupid every time.

Idk maybe I'm wrong but I feel like the days where its closed and people just have to guess where's going to be good/maybe jog down the beach spreads things out more.
Does anyone actually do that? I thought everyone just went to latwon :rolleyes:
 

Bob Dobbalina

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Seems like Surfline has really been whoring out OBSF the past 6 years or so. Lots of coverage/pics/video on any particular winter swell.

It's the collective lack of imagination that kills me.
It used to be that mags would post things and be slightly more vague.
"Northern California Beach Break."
"Norcal lights up."

Now they all but tell you the gps coordinates of the takeoff spot and offer you a front of the line package.
It does't help that everyone is content to whore themselves out to get "featured".
Everyone's desire to snitch on themselves needs to be corrected.

Stuff like Ashton Goggans pimping out The Beach to Red Bull doesn't help either.
I think I saw him riding a vintage minibike down Judah while I sipped a fantastic $7 coffee
 
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Mr Doof

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I haven't been on here enough to know what you all think/thought of prop k, but I think from a purely self-interested surfers perspective I *think* I dig it. One of the worst drivers of crowds is when people drive up and down the length of the beach and end up paddling out 'wherever looks good' which I think in practice is where most of the people are already. When I lived right on great highway I'd sometimes get in my car and drive the length before parking where I started, felt so goddamn stupid every time.

Idk maybe I'm wrong but I feel like the days where its closed and people just have to guess where's going to be good/maybe jog down the beach spreads things out more.

For what it is worth, the reasoning seems to forget that for most of the year, surfing in SF sucks. So close it off year-round so that for maybe 20 days it could make some sense?

"If it looks like this at Fulton, we better drive to Sloat where it could be better."

 

shoaltoad

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No on K boys. Driving a killdozer ala Marvin Heemeyer the first day it's closed. Who's with me

Aint nobody from the eastside taking transit and/or driving 45 min through city streets to get to OB on the 90% of weekend days when it's foggy and/or windy
 

Bob Dobbalina

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tsunami last week and today tornado, the end times warnings are coming early.

Lots of downed trees today.
Mission got pummeled with them.
Some big ones down in GGP.

The Scotts Valley Tornado this afternoon looked scary AF.
 

jkb

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Feb 22, 2005
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That cell went directly over my house but was not a tornado yet.

I was driving through Scotts Valley a half hour before touchdown. Right when I got home, there was a microburst that caused a downpour of hail for a few minutes and it was gone. That was cell that formed the tornado a few miles away.

About an hour earlier, a wind gust came up and blew one of our big trees over into our neighbors yard. Had to be a 70-80mph gust.
 

Tarab_ish

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Does anyone actually do that? I thought everyone just went to latwon :rolleyes:
I guess that's what I've been doing actually, lol. I think two(?) years ago on all the smaller days it was only good between like pacheco and santiago, that was the most oppressively packed into a small area that I've seen it in season.
 

kool-aid

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That cell went directly over my house but was not a tornado yet.

I was driving through Scotts Valley a half hour before touchdown. Right when I got home, there was a microburst that caused a downpour of hail for a few minutes and it was gone. That was cell that formed the tornado a few miles away.

About an hour earlier, a wind gust came up and blew one of our big trees over into our neighbors yard. Had to be a 70-80mph gust.
Insane and quite scary.
 
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