We are getting really tired of surfers dying stories. But, here’s another great loss to our world. Randy Miod’s was found in the burned ashes of his home “The crab shack” on PCH.
[Link via Surfer]
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Tempe, Arizona’s Big Surf wave pool made famous in the movie North Shore is reportedly being turned into a business park according to as story on KJZZ.com (k-jizz?)
Big Surf, the park on McClintock Road just north of the Red Mountain Loop 202, first opened in 1969, but closed its doors when the pandemic began and never re-opened. Following the closure multiple items from the site were auctioned off. . . In 2022, Overton Moore Properties bought the waterpark site for more than $49 million.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this turns out to be the endgame for most wave pools being built today. For more on this history, check this.
[Link: KJZZ.com]
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Mike Hynson (picutred right) star of Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer died Friday, January 10, 2025 after a recent illness, according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune. He was 82.
He was handsome and brash and cemented a reputation for navigating the San Diego County surf long before he was captured on film and propelled to worldwide celebrity. . . .Michael Hynson, co-star of the definitive surf movie “The Endless Summer” and an adopted son of Encinitas, parlayed his passion for waves into a lifetime of sand and sport on beaches across the globe.
True indeed. The family is reportedly planning a paddle out at Windansea in June 2025. So watch for more details to come.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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More sad snowboarding news from Utah.
On the morning of December 31, 2024, a solo splitboarder in the Silverfork Canyon area of the Salt Lake mountains triggered an avalanche on north-facing terrain below Davenport Hill at nearly 9,800 feet. The avalanche caught, carried, and fully buried him under approximately 20 feet of snow. A separate party in Little Cottonwood Canyon noticed the debris and alerted Alta Central. Search and rescue teams quickly responded, locating the individual using an avalanche transceiver. Despite their efforts, the individual tragically did not survive the accident.
[Link: Utah Avalanche Center]
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What? Hey, it’s what the world is coming to. Enjoy.
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We’re always interesting in what Thomas Campbell is doing. In this instance, he’s adding flavor to Josh Hall’s Skip Frye inspired “Le Sliviar” glider model surfboards.
[Link: Josh Hall Surfboards]
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The OGs of electronic music Kraftwerk will be hitting the North American road in 2025. To promote the tour our favorite pro skateboarder Tony Hawk created a video. Check it and get your tickets now. This band won’t live forever. . . or maybe they will. They are the robots.
[Link: Kraftwerk Tour]
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Damn, it seems like only yesterday that Jason Brown was showing me the hand-inked logo for his new snowboard brand. . . but Blue, Gumby, Johan, and the C3 crew really have done an amazing job not only surviving in the snowboard business, but by the looks of their “30,000 boards in the warehouse” flex. . . thriving. Congrats.
[Link: Bombhole Podcast]
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Yes, occasionally it takes an outside view to show us how really great some of our own people are. Take Scott Hulet for example. We all know he is an amazing editor, writer, and all around proper surf journalist. Duh? And sure, he has a book out that collects some of his best writing about South of the border. But seeing it reviewed in an online literary journal makes it so much more meaningful. Doesn’t it?
Take for instance Florida man Dan Reiter’s review of Hulet’s Flow Violento on the literary site The Millions. Reiter says:
Over the past 25 years, the brightest and most consistent star in its constellation has been Scott Hulet. Equal parts T.S. Eliot, Hunter S. Thompson, and Jon Krakauer, Hulet stirs in wit, jazz-improvisational style, and a gift for aphorism (“Shoals are generally discovered by their victims”; “There’s something comforting about seeing a pirate at rest”) that has become manna to the waterman faithful. As both contributor and editor of the Journal, he has done perhaps more than anyone on the planet to elevate the corpus of surf writing.
Boom. How’s that? Pretty good company. Make you want to read it now? How about if Reiter calls Hulet the “patron saint of surf lit”? How about now? If you do, click here and space villain Jeff Bezos will send one directly to your door. And even if you don’t, at least click the link to read the rest of the review because boy, oh boy, does Dan Reiter love him some Hulet writing.
Ah, after all that we should probably point out that Reiter writes for The Surfer’s Journal (and Surfer and ESM at least once) so maybe. . . so maybe someone will write a glowing review of his book On A Rising Swell when it comes out in April 2025. Who knows?
[Link: The Millions]
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We all know the art Stacy Peralta has created on his skateboard, on video, and film, but now he’s creating paintings about skateboarding. In this documentary, Against The Current, he explains it all.
Stacy shares his various inspirations from childhood to present day, and the challenges and lessons learned while working to develop this new visual language in his iterations of these tools of joy from the past. . . The work also explores his temporal and obsessive relationship to the skateboard collection that intrinsically holds the memories of those ephemeral halcyon days. As well as the decay and degradation that entropy and time have on our prized possessions, and even ourselves.
Spend a couple minutes to watch it. Then, roll up the coast to Cambria, California and check out his art show at Cruise Control Contemporary gallery.
[Link: Against The Current]
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