Who was the most stoked surfer you've met in Oregon?

[Doc]

Scott

are you referring to the Skrivner Bros?

or a different family?

doc

[smithgrind]

You see, it’s really hard for me to get all that stoked on surfing. Trust me I have been and I still do, but don’t obsess about it or really get to excited about it. Surfing’s great and all, but honestly It is what it is?

Laters-

This is exactly why I appreciate you DS...No need for perspective or insight...says it all right there for me.

[Ceedog]

I suppose the trick, how to use surfing to keep you grounded in reality opposed to using it as a distraction That just might be the source of real stoke.

Saltwater is a great BS cleanser. Washes all the nonsense away for me.

[Doc]

This guy is a stoke master...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TPMcPXp3ew&feature=player_embedded#

Doc

[bluesilver]

Saltwater is a great BS cleanser. Washes all the nonsense away for me.

Yup. When it's me, the water and what lies below - I couldn't care less about much more than keeping out of a survival situation. Some might consider this BS itself, but it makes me feel like I've plugged my 'recharge' cord back into nature and out of the work, home, money factors that drain me.

[wave agent]

The Schriver brothers of Newport were all over Avalanches (or for us old schoolers 2nd cove) way back.
They inspired me.

Marty Skriver passed away last year, Steve is living in Hawaii, and Jack still leads the charge at said spot(and you don't get in the way!). One stoked family.

Phil Lannigan---is he still alive? That guy would tote me around in his van to Boiler bay and 2nd cove before daylight in the dead of winter----when I was just learning---and he would make me paddle out.
Ouch

Phil's still around too. Your tales with Phil sound exactly like mine. Put me in danger way too many times, also made me paddle out where I had no business doing so as such a grom.
He EARNED his nickname, Crazy Phil. Still stoked.
Tippy: You're also a top five finisher...
Anyone else know Nina the German chick? Yet another top fiver.

[SooLoo]

Anyone else know Nina the German chick? Yet another top fiver.

Forgot about her! Def top 5. I remember she was reading a book called "SHARKS!". Funny girl. I remember she was so stoked one time it forced me out of the water.

Cute too.

[scubetubeular]

Jeff Scariano was always on it in the 90's. And he beat cancer. And he still surfs.

Stoked.

And still rips hard.

[guppy]

I met this guy in Lincoln City named Kieth. Galbreath, someone told me, is his last name. I paddled out and wondered, no worried, about how I was going to be taken. An outsider, on a spunge. There were 5 or six of them and as soon as they saw me smiles and hoots and the eyes of a child at Christmas were welcoming me to share their joy. I used to have that. They leant some to me that day and for a week after I was high on it.

Thanks Kieth!

Now imagine a guy who lives 100 miles inland, works 40-50 hours a week to pay rent and support a family. Who gets to surf one or two days bi-annually if his wife permits in the PNW where constancy is never the case. A guy that drives and drives and drives often for marginal surf or to play by someone else’s rules or get vibed.

Oucch! that last part about playing by someone else's rules and getting vibed stings the worst. I feel you dub. I've just lost the magic of it all. There are those days though when everything comes together and I remember why I keep on.

Damn. Forgot sparkomaticus.

He's stoked on everything except this board. Where is Spartakus Maximus?

[Dub Star]

I’m nominating Slimvest, at least for the “most stoked surfer of the week”. First of all homeskillet drives more for surf than any other valley I know. But check this one out.

After a night of free beer at an art show and then throwing a few back at the Built to Spill show, I woke up a little hung on Sun morn. So the fam and I walked up to one of our local coffee shops, fired up my cell and had a text from Slim sent at 5am asking if I was going. So I got online and checked a cam. Looked a little sloppy, so I hit the parking lot preset, another good way to see what’s up. The lot was empty except for one car. I thought to myself for a minute, wait I think that’s Slimvest’s rig! So I fired off a text and sure enough he replied “Yeah that’s me”. I busted up laughing at the circumstance and then I got the close up report.

Not sure if her ever got wet, but that’s some serious valley stoke.

[SlimVest]

wow, i never thought i'd be claimed as "stoked", but thanks.

yeah, i got in.

how was built to spill? I saw them 20+ times in the last decade, so been there, ripped it. you know how it is, dub.

[scubetubeular]

Slim may be stoked all the time but you will never notice due to his constant poker face. This might just elevate him to an even higher level of stokeness.
A stokeness that is un-noticeable but felt within.

[bluesilver]

Good thing this is "surfer in Oregon" because it seems people all over the world are into the Seaside Cove cam. Check out the "location views" thing at the bottom that give a map of who in the world has viewed this cam - interesting... a lot of europe, some australia, new zealand, s. africa..
And you guys thought this S*** was super secret. Must have been some of the recent magazine blurbs..

[scubetubeular]

Probably has more to do with the recent stretch of 20 foot + swells.

People like destruction.

[escondido_vida]

Most likely they are all booking their next flight to surf here and they are all checking the surf forecast