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The Oahu trip was so fun. I’ve never been to the Northshore before so it was all new to me. Most of the people on the trip (12 dudes) had been there before and/or grew up there so we pretty much had the place on lock.

The one thing that wasn’t on lock though was surfing. Holy shit was that a humbling experience… I don’t think any of us were expecting to get barreled or anything but goddamn surfing on the Northshore is effing gnarly!

I paddled out at Pipe and realized i made a big mistake when i saw a bunch of pro’s that have houses about 100 ft away on the beach. But it wasn’t till i noticed the craggy, shallow rock reef that looked like something out of a Tim Burton movie that the mistake i’d made became completely apparent. The waves were something like 4-6ft Hawaiian which is like head and a half plus to us Warshington surfers. The wave size, shape, speed and the crazy-ass shallow reef all pretty much freaked the hell outta me.

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