Gift Guide // Week 1

Happy Jollydaze!

Happy Winter Season of Love!

Merry Star Wars Life Day!

Whatever you call it, it's that time of year when we give gifts to each other. We want to help you gift good, so we made a gift guide. Each week in December we'll share a new list of gifts to gift.

Happy Gifting!

Surf Your Snow! Burton's radical plywood 1980's Throwback snowboard is the perfect gift for people who like fun. Do you like fun? Buy one for you after you buy one for us!

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Coffee Campers rejoice! Stanley's Mountain Vacuum Coffee System has it all: BOILING POT + FRENCH PRESS + VACUUM BOTTLE. It makes a lot of coffee and takes up very little space, so now you can make fresh coffee anywhere!

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These camping mats are freaking awesome! Made of cotton & leather, two of the toughest natural materials ever, these happy mats will hold up on your adventures. Pick one or two up from Hand Eye Supply! Oh, and check out their tweed folding chairs too!

Do you like Clint Eastwood Westerns? Duh, everyone does. This Woolrich X Westerlind Poncho will keep you warm and mysterious while you squint in the light of a new day.

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This backpack is made in the USA with 100% pure joy! Mowgli Surf + Mokuyobi Threads = the Mowgliyobi collaboration bag.

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Want to gift a cat, or puppy? Hold up brah! Hermit Crabs make waaaay gooder gifts. They don't shed hair balls, puke on your rug, chew up the couch, or eat stinky stuff. Just make sure you go recuse one from a pet shop rather than poach one from a tide pool.

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Nau clothing makes eco-friendly fashion that functions. Yeah, think on that idea for a while! It's genius. Just like this jacket from Nau's recycled down line. You can snowboard in it and wear it to your boring office job without having to change!

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For the tree hugger! Woolrich & Topo Designs collaborative backpack. Made in the USA. Combining heritage lumberjacking with modern urban outdoorsyness!

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This little black puck is going to up your movie-making game! It's small, but it does a very big thing! It makes the best time-lapse videos happen. Syrp makes the Genie Mini and tons of other rad gear. You don't have to be a tech-nerd to appreciate how simple and well design this puck is. It's controlled by an app on your phone just to make the whole system more compact. We got one, so expect to see more awesome time-lapse footage from our movies this year!

Dream Roll

What’s Cooler than being a Biker Babe? 

Chilling with a Hundred Other Biker Babes in the Woods for the weekend.

by Becky Goebel // @actuallyitsaxel

The Dream Roll was exactly what we pictured when we came up with the name: a dreamy, lovely weekend in the woods with 300 other women—riding, partying, and getting naked under the moon. A sisterhood was forming from the moment the ladies started rolling into the event grounds, which was a landing strip used in the ‘20s near the base of Mount Adams in lower Washington. The roar of Harleys, café racers, choppers, sport bikes, and enduros was heard from miles away, and it was a pretty awesome feeling watching their faces light up when they finally got to the Dream Roll destination. Some of these babes came from Portland and LA, while others came from New York City and even Australia.

The first night was a rager. The tepee was hotboxed, the girls drank almost 1,000 free tallboys, and the DJ had the time of his life as over 100 ladies danced topless to his music. There were two massive dome-tents on the event grounds—one filled with vintage furniture and hanging hammocks, and the other a medicated ice-cream vendor giving out free samples (thank you to the state of Washington!) It’s a pretty rad feeling to have “met” a lot of these women on social media and then come together in a place with zero cell phone service. 

Photo by John Waller

Saturday morning was full of coffee and raindrops. It was pretty obvious that it was going to be a wet day, but the babes were full of positive vibes. There was a ride-out to the ranger station about seven miles away where riders chose where they wanted to explore that day. Some went on a 70-mile ride around the entire park, exploring the volcanoes and canyons surrounding the national forest. Others hit up Lower Lewis River Falls where they were spotted skinny dipping in the rain, and others checked out the ice caves not too far from the camp site. No matter what road you chose to get lost on, there were cows, cliffs, and dozens of other ladies saluting you as you cruised past.

Photo by Lanakila MacNaughton

The sisterhood vibes were seriously strong that night. It was apparent that there were strong bonds made after the hurdles that were jumped because of the rain, the riding terrain, and the excitement of watching each other kill it on their bikes. Five bands played in the dome and a burn-out contest started going down in the spotlights turned on by the filmers. 

Photo by Lanakila MacNaughton

The days of being a woman and wild are here, and they are smiled upon. The Dream Roll has been looked at as a gathering of strong, independent women who just want to ride. Being able to bring this diverse gathering together is an honor, and I wouldn’t change the outcome of The Dream Roll 2015 for anything. Until next year, babes! 

Photo by Lanakila MacNaughton

dreamroll.com // @thedreamroll

Made in San Francisco

Have you ever noticed that we list the location goods are made at when we review them?
We think that piece of information is just as important as the price tag. Some brands hide that info and those are not the brands we work with. We only work with brands that are honest and have clear intentions.

Timbuk2 is one of those brands with clear intentions. Heck, they're so transparent about where their bags are made that they’ve got a peep hole in their Portland flagship store that lets you look into their San Francisco factory (it's a live camera feed). The SF factory makes bags from their Customize line. This line allows you to make a bag that suits your personal style. As a buyer it’s pretty awesome to have that much control over how your goods are made. It’s like voting “YES” for local manufacturing while also voting “YES” for your favorite color combo.

We ordered a SF-Made Custom Prospect Laptop Messenger Bag a while ago and have been using it to deliver magazines around town. We love it so much that we want to share it. If you don't think the coffee stains and the patch we added are a problem, you should help us gift it away.

(((GIFT THIS BAG)))
Just tag a friend you want to gift this to on our Instagram and follow @timbuk2 to win!

 

The New Almond

Almond Surfboards is opening a new retail store at 1720 Santa Ana Ave. #A Costa Mesa, CA. (two blocks from where founder Dave Allee grew up.)

But what we're most excited about is how this move might mark a change in tide for what Almond brings to the world. "We will be introducing some very select products from very special friends of ours; things that add to the overall experience here.  Almond has never been about creating a surf brand.  Almond has always been about creating a brand of specific values, and using surfboards as a means to exemplify those values.  And we’re excited for the role that this retail space can play in that aim, being right here in the Eastside Costa Mesa neighborhood."

Swing by the Grand Opening celebration and Open House this Thursday, the 19th, from 5-8 pm and raise a drink to Almond.