heyyyyyyyyyyy oregon surfers or people who have experience surfing up there,
shoot me a pm, please, because i have some general questions.
thanks,
Bobby
Howzit poser, Did you guys get any of the tsunami that hit yeserday.Aloha,Kokua
there’s a web page —oregon surf cams-----that has a chat format that’s interesting, if you ask specific questions they get all granola grumpy—but, if you vist they are very nice folks in the water and on the beach. my wife and i make a trip out there every year and have a great time, wine, art and surf tour’s I and II were outstanding!
it was very interesting that there we were out in 50+ degree water and the majority of the crowd of ‘locals’ were wearing 4/3 mm hooded suits with booties but no gloves, and bitching about how cold their hands were(?) go figure—i was questioned often about my 3/2 suit and gloves and booties 'wasn’t i cold?"
all in oregon is a hidden gem of surfing—don’t visit there
And if you don’t visit Gary Geist at one of the Lucky Lab brew pubs up there, you reeeeallly missed it.
just thinkin of possible places to move when i finish grad school. or if i shoudl just stay here. its just that its winter right now and its still really really warm outside. i miss seasons. so i’d like to go north. just not sure how far north. i need to be able to surf 5 or so times a week, which is completely possible here, and also in parts of northern cali, but in oregon?
it seems windy all of the time like up in humboldt.
You miss seasons?
Ahh…give it time. That’ll pass. 
You’d leave Ventucky for Oregon? Much harsher conditions up there… cold water, sporadic waves, gnarley weather, grey all the time. It’ll make you tougher for sure. I’ve only surfed in Oregon a few times so I’m no authority, but it’s rugged up there. It felt sharky to me too… and I’m from the Red Triangle.
I am from Ore.Nice place, if the sun is out on the snow you wear shorts.Freezing rains or snows 3-4 month strait.They design bridges to be under water for a month or two.The surf can be great, some reefs.Wind surfing-kite boarding is big(Windy).I have see point breaks with heater shacks built by them.Build a wood fire then surf a little and warm up and repeat. The summer is nicer 60% water(Japanese Current).
After a few years you get numb.
Ian
is it too windy to surf every day?
Jerry Lopez lives in Ore in the summer only.My dad is a kite-nut,my cousin Kevin hang glides,his sister wind surfs.Windy-stormy but there are surfable points.Like most places it is good, bad and ugly. the coast is an hour & 1/2 away from the big cities.And it’s green, pretty, wet, raw, and cold.
Ian
You probably wouldn’t dig it :0)
We take comfort in your misconceptions.
Contact my friend Mark at Cannon Beach surf. If you can get on his email list, he’ll send you pics of the surf at either Cannon or Indian Beach daily. He is a great guy and he can get you good deals on boards and wetsuits.
there are very few waves with wind protection, winter strong s sw winds, summer n nw. in the winter it can often be victory at sea for weeks on end. there is not a lot of reef breaks. sand diego has a lot of reefbreaks. we have a lot of reefs and miles of beach break with no wind protection. My Valhalla is san diego or ventura/santa barbara. there is a blog by an oregon surfer and you could learn a lot by following it. good luck in school. and enjoy the winter you’ll probably have a lot of surf because we’re getting maxed out up here already.
thanks for the info everyone.
i’m not sure oregon is for me.
Poser,
Check your PM’s
grew up in bend. its was great. lived in san diego while in the navy, got out and moved to portland. great city, but too far from coast. two hour trips to the beach with a dog farting the whole way and a wife sitting in the rain on the beach sent us packing back to sunny san diego. oregon is great there is a lot of real beatiful people and places, but get ready for all kinds of rain. the beer is awesome, and so is the wine. good luck.
seaside is considered by many to be the best wave in the continental U.S. .those guys have been extremely successful at keeping that place out of the mags and internet, how i don’t know. you cant even find a picture of it on the internet. if i was you i’d take off your california license plates when you visit.
here is a site that has a lot of info. cams, surfspots, message board, etc…
i’m from washington, and surfing in the pnw will toughen you up. i’ve never surfed w/out a wetsuit. but then again, i’ve never surfed w/ more than 4 people in the water either. good luck.
thanks everyone for the help.
seriously.
seriously???