Reading the line: a Trestles morning
SessionsJul 6, 2026· The Shop

Reading the line: a Trestles morning

A dawn patrol down the trail, glassy peelers, and why the right board matters more than the forecast.

There's a version of surfing that lives entirely in the forecast app. We try not to live there. Some of the best mornings of the year showed up with a shrug of a swell chart and turned into glass.

The trail

You park up top, you walk the trail down, and by the time you're waxing up the light is doing that thing it does at San Onofre. Waist to shoulder, long and clean, no crowd yet.

South County light, before the crowd.
South County light, before the crowd.

On mornings like that the Coast Twin comes alive — loose off the top, fast down the line, weightless in trim. The board matters more than the forecast. Come talk boards with us before the next one.

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