We’re talking unfathomable quantities and layers, going deeper and deeper, constantly growing, covering bits and pieces of the country. We’re talking about snow – or as the Japanese call it, “Yuki”.
It’s moments like that… those random experiences, those unique memories, that made this trip – and frankly, that are missing from a lot of surf trips these days.
An interesting yarn, true or not, but it raises the question: does it matter if you are not the first to surf a place if it’s pumping, and there’s someone else already there when you arrive?
Before the Inter-web-a-net, the only way to experience The Search was visiting your local newsagent and getting a copy of the latest surf mag, flipping it over to mind-surf waves you’d only dream of in the Search ads. But how did it come about?
Chapter 8 from ‘Somewhere’ the movie showcases a free surf session that sees Rip Curl take the world’s best surfers on The Search – somewhere in Mexico.