You Must Be This Tall to Ride

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Reading the room and climbing the pecking order at modern Pipeline.

By Beau Flemister

Volume 34 Issue 6 (2025)

35.5
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Chris Carter, the former Surfing magazine editor…

By Travis Ferré
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The surf mat—plebeian on the surface but…

By Scott Hulet
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The Fantastic Displacements of Perfection

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By Dodge Weirath
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The passions of the Waxhead.

By Phil Jarratt

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Volume 34 Issue 6

In this issue

We pay homage to the Hawaiian winter with modern and traditional studies of Sunset, Pipeline, and Honolua Bay. We also examine the moodboard of a culture-shifting multihyphenate, and assess an award-winning designer’s endemic and mainstream influence. Along the Pacific Rim, we jump in the water with an experienced Canadian shooter, ranch with the stewards of a pristine stretch of California coast, and grovel with a subterranean pack rat in San Diego.

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