If you’ve come across a good one drop a link in the comments.

1.  Surfing The Puget Sound

A couple dudes surf Edmonds on some wind swell.  No leashes!  One slips and falls on his aaaassss.  Using a song from the Breeders that’s so old it might as well be classic rock.

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2.  NW Waves

Solid back handed surfing at a variety of spots.  The soundtrack makes me want to punch babies.

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3.  Brian

Shack-a-tron 5000!  And an aerial maneuver.  Booya!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CAPkino8ZE

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4.  The Cove 1997-98

Really cool old video of the Cove at Westport.  Wave definitely doesn’t break like this anymore.  I blame the Spotted Owl.

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5.  NW Surf 1/3/10

Dude films his ride with a GoPro Cam.  Pretty rad angle…whacky style.  Angry comments.

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6.  Pacific Northwest Surfing

An older artsy film shot with actual film–I think.  Decent surfing and a couple near misses.  Some familiar looking bros in this one.

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7.  Olympic Peninsula Surf Trip

Some dude and his girl roll out to the Oly Pen.  Lotta build up with no release.  No shots of actual surfing.  I think this guy’s from Oregon.

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8.  Mulcoy’s Wold Pacific Northwest

Barrel ma-fucking-chine!  Damn, it’s weird to see actual surfing in the NW.  But this guys pro.  Heard he was a pro kite boarder too.

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9.  Surf WA

Bad surfing on bad waves.  AND, this one has Creed as a soundtrack.  Sad, sad, and sad.  As of last January, it’s extra sad.

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10.  Washington Surfing

Clean surf on a sometimes heavy barreling wave.  Dude paddles for a right, ducks for cover up, gets a little too high on the wave and BLAMO! Tomahawk to the face!  Totally rad…we need more of these YouTubers.  Make it happen.

ps–rad comments on this video.

Rather than write my own recap i decided to rhyme.  Here goes:

The Slalom had a lotta bros.  A few Yo’s.  Probably some ho’s, but i don’t knows.  There were a bunch of crows flying in circols.  Some people met the 5-0.  This dude got clipped in the nose.

..and here’s a POV shot with a ContourHD of a hike we did up the Arm on Saturday.  It was fun.

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Here’s a vid of the wave explosion.

I wanted a mini-van purely for comfort.  With a mini-van i don’t have to pitch a tent, i have a comfortable place to chill out of the elements, i can haul all my shit with room to spare, and i have a place to charge my iphone.  Best of all, if you are able to con a girl to come out to the beach with you, you have a place to snuggle.

Ever since i got a mini-van, i’ve developed a bit of an infatuation.  Check out these pics of van’s i’ve come across.

If your still doubting the radness of mini-van, check out the video below.  These guys know what im talking about.

I am convinced:  If you surf, you want a van.

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Got the a.m. off again.  This time there was even more snow that last Friday and it was way colder.  Lines weren’t as bad as last Friday but it was pretty busy.

Here’s a few pics:  LINK

Here’s a Vholdr shot of Davey Jones (watch the volume!):

The week of the trip was spent working  in 4-10 mode. I split Thursday evening straight from work and made the 5-1/2 hour drive to Mazama in about 4-1/2.  It was cloudy pretty much till i got to Roslyn, then cold and clear the rest of the way.  Conditions were looking good so far.

The mountain weather up till the week before i left was pretty much crap.  No new, windy, cloudy, etc.   I was stressing thinking we were gonna be riding on a bunch of yuk.  But we lucked out and got a mini storm that dumped enough to make it sic.  It’d been cloudy, and/or windy most of the week up till when we all got there.  When we woke up Friday morning in Mazama–Bluebird!

That morning at the Heli barn, we went through a safety seminar and a quick transceiver training session.  The safety seminar consisted of how to deal with the helicopter on take off/landing, approach, and generally being around it.  The transceiver training consisted on how to turn on the unit, how to run a systematic search, and how to pin-point a victim.  All-in-all, it took about an hour.

The helicopter they’re running out there is brand new.  By brand new, i mean it had 50 hours of flight time.  The guides were extremely particular about how to conduct yourself, what to do, what not to do with regard to damaging the helicopter.  This thing is fragile, “a big guy could easily rip this door right off.”  I didn’t break anything.

There were 4 groups of 4 that day so there was a bit of a wait once the heli started running.  We were the last group to get taxied out.

I’ve never been in a helicopter so i was pretty much giggling like a girl when we took off.  The pilot, Shamus has a lot of experience flying and was clearly on point flying the thing.  Dude was pretty much carving it up in heli.

We got dropped off on Drop Zone 1 and proceeded to LZ1 (see map below).  Sic run.  Wide open pow, perfect vis, nothing too sketchy, so we all hauled ass.  We hit 7 runs over the course of the day.  All runs were pretty much wide open pow, huge arcing turns, slashers and huge sprays.  On Run 6, i got to hit a super fun chute.  It was about 15 feet wide and pretty long.  The terrain that we hit was advanced intermediate for the most part.  The steeps that we did come across were short.  It was mostly mellower slopes with short sections of steeps in between–like a series of benches.  In the pic below Dax drops off the rock right in front of him and set off a little slide.  My cam died right as he was in the air.

There was some super fun tree runs.  A lot of the tree coverage out there was the Larch tree which is a deciduous conifer–it’s a pine tree that looses it’s needles.  Pretty cool.  Around here you find them all over the east slopes of the Cascades.  I’ve never ridden in them.

The snow coverage out there was like it is out here–low.  There were rocks and trees sticking out here and there but it was pretty chill for the most part.  The rocks out there are mostly granite which tend to be a lot less jagged than the stuff we see in western WA.  So the few that i did hit didn’t do any major damage (sorry Ride).

Super fun trip.  We scored big time with the weather and snow conditions–couldn’t have been better.  The heli operation out in Mazama is awesome.  Organized, efficient, professional, safe and fun.  If you got some extra coin check em out.

I wish i was rich.  Maybe next year…

Check out the full photo Gallery.

Check out some Vholdr clips (volume is loud).

Here’s the KML of the map above.  Check it out in Google Earth–pretty rad 3D stuff.

Find out more about North Cascade Heli on their website:  http://www.heli-ski.com/