Friday Big Wave Surfing Action

BREAKING JAWS

In 2016 Maui has been blessed with the best surf in more than two decades.

Breaking Jaws: Pe'ahi El Niño chronologically highlights eight of the best Jaws surf sessions this year. Over 100 time lapse clips from 5000+ photographs, combined into 9+ min of face-melting, El Niño madness!

Comments

[skinflint]

If you are going to wipe out on big waves you may as well do it with great music.

[skinflint]

Beached whale causes problems at surf site. However pictures of lasses in bathing suit should help assuage the pain.
http://www.surfingmagazine.com/news/dead-whale-washes-ashore-at-lowers/#ae1T0OouUTvDHGYD.97

[skinflint]

How to rid oneself of the pesky problem of beached whale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vmnq5dBF7Y

[DailyBail]

That is weak game on the lasses in bikinis unless you mean the side ad panel on that story. In either case I give you a Gentleman's C for effort.

The exploding whale however is straight fucking As.

[skinflint]

DB, Surf chicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVdiA2XklZA
Shit you wished happened to potus while on vacation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H96CJ7b-GM

[DailyBail]

You should write for the site.

Shit you wished happened to potus while on vacation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H96CJ7b-GM

[skinflint]

Surely you jest.

[DailyBail]

You're a good writer and a funny dude. Running a website is a huge pain in the ass. I spend 12 hours everyday in front of my monitor.

[skinflint]

I've no doubt since you are on board when I am up in the morning heading off to work at 430 or so and are still on when I get home some 11 hours later. However I am the village idiot here plainly speaking and I don't know that I add a whole lot to the larger picture unless this is the avenue you wish to go.

[skinflint]

http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/10/the-lumberjacks-who-felled-californias.html
My bucket list includes going out to look at these magnificent trees.
Being an East Coasty, the largest trees I have climbed are about half the size of one of these beasts. Back in the day before line setting techniques became an important part of safety on the job, we would hook a tree to the top, then take the hooks off when we reached the crown.. It was arduous work.
One day we went down to Gibson Island to cut a few trees for a guy who was looking to have a house built. I threw on my hooks and started to free climb. It's what we called it. Just gaffs. A saddle and my rope clipped to my side. I had a flip line, but these trees were so huge around that the line would not reach all the around the log.
I got to the top of the tree, it was an old Oak, set my line and asked the ground pounder to tie my tools on the rope so that I may pull them up. He couldn't reach my rope. The end of my line was about 30 feet off the ground. So, I repelled down the tree until the first big break where the crown starts to spread.
The ground pounder tied the tools on at which point I had to free climb back up to the top of the tree, set my line once again and started to walk around the crown to drop the limbs. It was a great life, an adrenaline rush just about everyday day. I miss it, but bodies get old I suppose.