West Coast Spring Fling: Part One
Fun south swell + fine weather = happy surfers. (More on the way.)
Marcus Sanders
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Surfers tend to be more tuned into subtle seasonal shifts than most folks. This is not an academic or theoretical or ethereal pursuit it’s straight-up, real-world selfish. Because even though the weather on land may rarely change much in a place like Southern California throughout the year, the Pacific Ocean has very distinct aquatic divides. And the better one understands those divides, the better one’s chances are at scoring more surf.
Central California, March 31st. Photo: Andy Bowlin
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Is That It? California Sees (More) Days of Pumping Surf
More North Pacific swell, offshore winds cap off a weeks-long run for the Golden State
San Diego. Photo: Tanner Olthoff
Marcus Sanders
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Good chance, if you live in Hawaii or on the West Coast, you’ve just about run out of excuses for missing any kind of work or familial obligations by now. Can’t really hide a head tan on a Zoom call or broken surfboards in the garage from a loved one. As we’ve been reporting, over the course of the last number of weeks, the North Pacific has barely stopped for a coffee break. (Stand by for some stats on how this run stacks up.)
Gallery: Solid North Pacific Swell Hits Rest of California
It wasn t all Maverick s last week here s some highlights
Austin Smith-Ford. Photo: Brant Schenk
Marcus Sanders
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First off, apologies. Normally, when California sees its first real winter swell, we’re a little more on it with reporting the various good-epic spots from up and down the state in a timely manner. Last week, though, it was all Maverick’s, all the time, from every angle possible, and we were forced to ignore our bulging inboxes of anything other than Mav’s. Thing is, though: 99.9% of California surfers did not surf Mav’s last week but probably 75% of them scored somewhere provided they found a properly facing stretch of coastline. So it wasn’t just the rhino-chasing hell-brigade who were stoked on the very large swell that swept down the coast on Tuesday. For the rest of us, fickle nooks and crannies were just fine.