Posts Tagged ‘Surf’
Kauai
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On flight over, Andy won a halway guessing contest, and got an IZ cd, so we knew it was going to be a good trip! Arrived and instantly loved the warm, tropical air. Picked up rental, ate at a yummy burrito placed called Mermaids and went to Adams. He moved out of his little studio and let us stay there. Chased the sun a few days down to PoiPu and Koola (where there was epic snorkeling and you could feed the fish) Went to Adams Friend (tom and Broman) engagement party where we met a lot of his friends and Andy played his violin with Adam. Everyone was really friendly and made us feel like old time friends, Tom (guido) and Sharky would call every day to see what we were doing! We got to check out The guy who owns pixar films house where tom was working. Absolutely beautiful with intriquite wood work and a cool shower waterfall and hottub overlooking the ocean. One day had a muddy offroad trip to Pau Hali and camped out for the night. Private beach where Andy went and surfed in the morn and I ran to the end of the beach and back, which was much further than it looked! And than when packing the car back up, I found a Cane spider the size of my fist loose in our car. Andy tried to kill it with a machete, but it climbed under the glovebox. So for the rest of the day, I rode with my feet propped up, paranoid he would come out and attack me. On our drive back we stopped at Waiamae canyon and did a quick hike along a ridge looking down into the mini grand canyon. Spent another day hiking about 6-7 miles out on the Napali coastal hike. Me and Andy were both really sore after that one., but had incredible views along the coast looking way down at the water. Did one morning kayaking out on the Wailue river to the secret falls hike. Which wasn’t so secret, because we rolled up to about 15 other kayaks parked on the shore and lots of other tourist hiking out and back,. It was a fun trail and super slick and me and Andy were booking it barefoot. The waterfall was pretty and had a nice swimming hole. Our favorite beach that we spent time at was Secrets. It had a nice walk out, to the end (3rd beach) and a mellow sandy beach break that was great for me to learn on. We spent the last day there, pretty much to ourselves because it was a little overcast. So we surfed and waited for the sun to come out. I got a bad front wedgie from fallin on a wave and than there was a slight spot of sunshine on the beach and so Andy said “Sun of the Beach” and I said “sun of a beach, I just got a fwedgy” we thought that was pretty funny! Ate a lot of yummy pineapple, papaya and coconut, soo good right off the trees! the mountains there are gorgeous and lush and The Island definitely stood up to the reputation of being “the garden island”. I’m sure and hope that we will be back soon!
Andy’s wifey
See all photos under Kauai in Andy’s photo album on GO211.com
such a rad beach
Windells Snowboard Camp
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Windells Pipe
I always enjoy going back to Mt. Hood. Doesn’t matter if we continue to get older because that place makes you feel like a kid. The kind of kid that doesn’t stop until completely asleep in the back of the car on the way home.
I spent 2 sessions at Windells Snowboard Camp guest coaching. Though it was as hot as Hood gets, it was also as good as Hood gets. Windells park, pipe and rails were going off. Kids were going hucktastic into the airbag which was fun to watch and do. Windells added more concrete for the skaters and the dirt jumps for bikes were going off. There was even a mtn bike crew building some crazy ladders that I won’t touch.
In between sessions the surf was going off. The same swell that killed a couple people in southern California was hitting the Oregon coast strong. Short Sands was the best I have ever seen it. A couple other locations were going off and seriously made my summer for me. My wife made it up on the in-between so we went and did a bunch of mtn biking on the way home. On the last night we camped in Bend and a thunderstorm came in hard, Lighting and thunder every 2 seconds. An awesome end to a rad trip!
biking Surveyer's Ridge near MT Hood
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a lot of rubber