Coldwater Culture

Being a surf shop in the Pacific Northwest, we know cold water surfing and the challenges it presents. Inherently, it means more equipment, thicker boards, and harsher weather conditions. When it comes to traveling to cold water destinations, these added hurdles can quickly diminish the excitement of any adventure. Having to pack and carry around [...]

Art and surfing go hand and hand. As surfers, we paint our own unique pictures each time we catch a wave. Every ride allows us to tap into our own artistic abilities and use our distinct style to tell a story. How we choose to use the power of a wave is different for every [...]

Several times over the past 30 years I have had my mind blown by a new wave discovery in the surf industry. In 1992 we were introduced to Maverick’s outside of Half Moon Bay in California. Then in 2000 it was Laird Hamilton’s millennium wave at Teahupoo that brought the surf world to its knees. [...]

Injuries and surfing unfortunately go hand in hand. It's only a matter of time before you're going to have to deal with some sort of injury. Whether it's overusing your shoulders, tweaking your knees and back, or just straining your muscles, it's bound to happen at some point. We are lucky here in Pacific City [...]

Continuing on from our previous week's Coldwater Edits series, we're following Dylan Graves's Weird Waves Series as he travels through Missoula, MT, through Idaho, and ending in Bend, Oregon to surf some pretty fun looking river waves. We love how these videos capture the stoke and differences yet similarities in the local communities, even though [...]

*Update: If you want to see our 2020 updated list, please click here! If you've followed us at all, you know we love to travel. However something we don't love is having to shell over a bunch of our hard earned cash just to bring our magic board along with us. That's why we've done our research, [...]

For our Coldwater Edits Volume V, we bring you "Weird Waves Season 1: Great Lakes". This short film follows Puerto Rican ripper Dylan Graves as he journeys from his warm water paradise to the cold, snowy plains of Racine, Wisconsin to find waves that are far removed from 99.9% of people's travel list. Dylan meets [...]

This week's Coldwater Edits features a filmer much closer to home, our own local shaper Rob Russo! Based in Lincoln City just down the road from us, Rob has been shaping a wide range of boards to suit the local conditions here for the past decade. It turns out that board shaping (and surfing really [...]