The Wordless Picture Thread

zymurgybob

I did the Etoile de Triomphe twice, first on a motorcycle (sheer terror) and the second time in a towering, banged-up 1951 Austin diesel London cab, and I think I held my own pretty well.

jez

GD50

@jez Is that a picture of one of your mates adventure at Granites. Arent you glad you had to stay behind and work. :D

Thats a long way to push that one thru and if at Granites a long way to the hospital. Have to do the fishing line trick.

jez

@GD50 nope that was me at salt creek. thought I had the shark tight enough but when he let lose the bottom hook dug in

GD50

How you get it out? When was this?

Hope your tetanus is up to date. I just saw the hook point on the way out.

jez

had to get it cut out, few months back did a weekend trip by myself

FloridaCracker

Fishing line pull trick.

That is one buried hook. I wouldn't be man enough to push it through..... :(

Kapea

Hands are easy. Scalps hurt like a sumbitch...

FloridaCracker

@Kapea said: Hands are easy. Scalps hurt like a sumbitch...

Easier to do with an extra set of hands. Preferably a set without a hook in it......

Kapea

Kapea

Teahupoo going off...

punkin

Great shot.

Kapea

How'd you like to take that on the head?

A very intense 10 second ride - tow in, bottom turn, and haulass to the shoulder before you get swallowed up. About a 50% success rate.

They custom-taylor surf baggies for guys with balls big enough to surf that break.

punkin

Almost drowned swimming in six foot one day years ago. I don't mess with big waves, not even in boats (well i do, but i shouldn't). It's not so much the first one that gets you, it's the one after another unrelenting bastards behind that really mess you up.

Smaug

@punkin said: Almost drowned swimming in six foot one day years ago. I don't mess with big waves, not even in boats (well i do, but i shouldn't). It's not so much the first one that gets you, it's the one after another unrelenting bastards behind that really mess you up.

Like an Alligator roll then ground and pound...

rossco

Big waves are really relaxing because you need to be in the moment. You get a break from all the other shit going on.

Kapea

I've never surfed Mavericks, Jaws, Waimea Bay, or Teahupoo, but I have been there when they were going off. There is nothing relaxing about riding 40ft. high walls of water. The sound alone will knock you down.

I have surfed triple overhead sized faces. Even that is too big for me now. It hurts too much when they catch you.

grim

Sitting on the beach at Waimea during the Eddie in 2009 was awe inspiring. We sat there thinking that at any minute the sea was going to eat us all alive. Watching from the road above, I thought it was insanity to even be on the beach (so we made a beeline for it).

I think I remember them calling off 25 foot, so that would easily be 40-50 foot faces.

Kapea

I've seen shore break at Waimea Bay that was bigger than the biggest hurricane surf I ever saw in Florida. I joke with my Florida friends about being happy with surfing on boat wake.

(Eddie would tow!)

Kapea

Kapea

DonMateo

Jermuk, Armenia. Working on a job to pay for my boilers and buildout for my distillery.

Smaug

FloridaCracker

Might get to use that this Saturday......

Smaug

@FloridaCracker said: Might get to use that this Saturday......

Christmas time,,,its freezing out lol :)

Kapea

@Smaug said: Christmas time,,,its freezing out lol

Up on the mountains maybe, but not down here at sea level.

Smaug

No no,,,,freezing I say. 82F here,,,, brrr.

grim

Down in Orlando - this weekend looks frigid

Smaug

@grim said: Down in Orlando - this weekend looks frigid

If you have time stop and see Paul and Andrew at Winter Park Distilling.

mlobarr

Nice gate