At about 1:34 there's a guy on a surfboard ('sup deathwish), another at 3:40. The face of that wave has to be about 4 times his height.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:14 pm
by ChargerMike
...I body surfed at the wedge back in the early 60's, but not when it was up like that! That's no place to be when the surf is 10-12 it will humble you and slam you into the rocks.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:17 pm
by Mikey
They're saying it was 25 feet (and only a foot or two deep at the bottom).
One guy did get slammed into the jetty and got hisself kilt on Friday (I think it was Friday).
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:12 am
by Diego in Seattle
Interesting break...looks like there might be some sort of sand bar that's causing the waves to go from rolling to breaking so quickly at the last second.
Even w/o the jetty there that's gotta be pretty dangerous if it's as shallow as is being said. A couple of those guys going over the falls could have ended up going to the Christopher Reeve card.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:48 am
by Mikey
It's supposedly the jetty, not a sandbar, that causes the break. The waves roll up against the jetty, and roll back out again into the oncoming swell making for a pretty radical peak in that one spot.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:58 am
by Moving Sale
My gawd that is an ugly wave. You LAers slay me.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:03 am
by Mikey
Moving Sale wrote:My gawd that is an ugly wave. You LAers slay me.
No LAers around here.
BTW, Newport Beach is not in LA. Tell me you knew.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:07 am
by Moving Sale
Mikey wrote:
Moving Sale wrote:My gawd that is an ugly wave. You LAers slay me.
No LAers around here.
BTW, Newport Beach is not in LA. Tell me you knew.
LA starts in Calabasas and runs down the coast to Dana Point then out to Redlands up to San Fernando and back out to Calabasas. All of which is south of Mt. Tam. That's what I know.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:44 am
by Van
Moving Sale wrote:
Mikey wrote:
Moving Sale wrote:My gawd that is an ugly wave. You LAers slay me.
No LAers around here.
BTW, Newport Beach is not in LA. Tell me you knew.
LA starts in Calabasas and runs down the coast to Dana Point then out to Redlands up to San Fernando and back out to Calabasas. All of which is south of Mt. Tam. That's what I know.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:31 am
by Mikey
Moving Sale wrote:
Mikey wrote:
Moving Sale wrote:My gawd that is an ugly wave. You LAers slay me.
No LAers around here.
BTW, Newport Beach is not in LA. Tell me you knew.
LA starts in Calabasas and runs down the coast to Dana Point then out to Redlands up to San Fernando and back out to Calabasas. All of which is south of Mt. Tam. That's what I know.
Actually, it's south by southeast.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:50 am
by Dinsdale
Mikey wrote:
Actually, it's south by southeast.
Trivia gold:
Which is further east? LA or Reno?
Sin,
way out west in the Time Zone That Matters
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:40 am
by Blueblood
You guys are funny...
Sin,
the best two breaks in California..
Malibu... LA is a shithole.
...and Bolinas.
No wave and pitch can match this break....
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Oh yeah, "the truth" was just in Bolinas...
Highway 1...
Heading into Bolinas on Highway 1....
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:04 am
by Blueblood
Welcome to RCA...
... oh yeah, no fair weather surfers apply..... it's 45 degree's in the water.
...we're talking "body surfing" and "paddle boarding'at the wedge, no surf boards allowed from what I remember. Some of the crazier death wishers to actually stand on the paddle boards however. Virtually every ride at The Wedge ends in a wipeout. The wave below eating this surfer for lunch is a classic example of "the peak".
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:44 pm
by indyfrisco
Blueblood wrote:
You personal info whores just got a softball. Anyone want to debunk this shit troll? Here's your chance.
Re: Friday at the wedge
Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:58 pm
by Stanley Pickkkle
Been to the wedge hundreds of times, but 42nd Street Lifeguard tower was my main hangout.
