Storm Cradlers

Come see The Cradle of Storms: a film by Chris Burkard & Surfer Magazine about cold-water surf exploration at it's finest.

Snow Peak | Thursday Nov. 13th | 7-9pm | 410 NW 14th Ave. Mor einfo on the Facebook page.

PLUS: Zeal Optics trunk show and product raffle (featuring stuff from Stay Wild magazine) benefiting Warm Current a non-profit that helps kids get out in the cold water to catch waves!

EXTRA BONUS PLUS: Chris Burkard will be flying in to present his slide show on the making of the film before it screens!

Nature's Skatepark

Looks like we've been backpacking all wrong. For now on skateboards as just as important as sleeping pads on backcounrty hikes in the Sierras. Thanks for the inspiration Brandon Rein!

Ray Gordon's Gasser

Photos by Jon Humphries

Ray Gordon bought a 1951 chevy to be his life project. Unfortunately, in a fit of passion, he finished his life project in 3 years with the help of his family and friends.

The car’s official name is “El Capitan: The Ray Gordon Gasser,” but his Dad just refers to it as “The Beast.”

The style of the build is “A Gasser,” a class of pioneering drag racing from the ’50s and ’60s. Acording to Ray, “We built it with keeping history and tradition at the top of the priority list. Everything was done how it would have been back then. It’s a rolling time machine.”

Ray's Gasser was built not bought:

• The motor is the heartbeat of this car. It’s from a car that Ray’s mother bought new in 1973. His father pulled the motor out of that car when he junked it in the ’80s. Chance would have it that he now builds competition motors, and he built the shit out of this 406 small block—made 500 plus hp and over 520 ft. lbs. of torque on the dyno.
  
• The graphics were hand-painted by the one and only Ornamental Conifer.
  
• The bodywork and base coat of paint were all handled by Ray’s good friend Dale Wickline.
  
• The seats were all hand-made by good friend Ginger McCabe at New Church Moto.
  
• The roll cage and 5-point harnesses all around are for Ray’s three-and six-year-old children. “To keep them safe.”
  
• The tires were hand built by Cody Adams and his dad at Hurst Racing Tires.
  

Stay Wild magazine had the pleasure of riding in the back seat of "The Beast" and can tell you first hand, it's a fucking blast!

Ray Gordon is a commercial photographer. See his shots of cars going full throttle HERE and on Instagram.

DO NOT Surf in Oregon

Are you a fair-weather surfer? If so, please stay out of the Pacific Northwest. The weather is super harsh here! Rain, wind, shark-nados, log-jam sneaker-waves, and ugly bearded locals make surf impossible up North, so stay where orange trees grow big and plump please.

Of course you're not going to believe us after looking at this slide show from Shaun Daley of FRESTcoast. You might even call us full of shit and get super hyped on taking an Oregon road trip to come pick up a board from local shapers FRESTcoast who makes boards custom shaped to surf the lovely waves that roll empty in the Pacific Northwest. We won't blame you for the invasion though. Plenty of waves to go around for the rugged and hairy men and women who dare paddle out here.

"For this trip, we had our eye on a lil' something coming in that might work.  After managing to put together the hungover pieces at 5am, we stabbed out into the dark, wet, gloomy weather, and found no signs of anything resembling surfable waves.  It seemed like just as we pulled up, the smell of skunks lifted from the air!  Sunny, crisp, offshore beachies and only a few large marine mammals to share em' with.  After A few surf sessions, couple of trout, plenty o' beers and a bunch of dirtbiking later we thanked this rugged section of coast for it's hospitality and forged a trail home. " -Shaun Daley of FRESTcoast