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Luke Gartside
In current times, it’s hard to resist feeling nostalgic for the heady days of global surf travel.
So, we’re encouraging you to indulge it enthusiastically with our ongoing series of discovery stories from some of the world’s most prolific surf explorers, running all this winter here on the Wavelengthmag.com
The first edition featured Indo pioneer Martin Daly, followed up by legendary filmmaker Jack McCoy and today, it’s the turn of John Callahan, photographer, writer and modern surf explorer extraordinaire.
Loosely speaking, the history of surf discovery exists in two distinct chapters; before and after the internet. Finding new spots in the first relied on nouse, luck and the ability to spend long periods of time pottering about between tropical islands and traversing coastlines off the beaten track.
Dissecting the Dream: An Inside Look at the Best Six Weeks in Maverick’s History
When the North Pacific went into overdrive Mav’s led the charge
Photo: Billy Watts
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The problem with a couple months straight of North Pacific swell overdrive is just that so many crazy sessions, epic stories, unforgettable waves, bad wipeouts, enraged partners, confused bosses…the whole thing becomes kind of a crazed blur. One, oversized lump of collective surf memory. Which is why pulling one strand out of the narrative in this case, almost two months of very good to epic Maverick’s can help frame the whole event and give it context in the broader scope of the surfing universe.