Surf Spot Guide: Trestles

Talk about classic Southern California waves and Trestles is usually one of the first to get a mention. This week it'll be top of the list as the Nike 6.0 Lowers Pro hits the beach. With the new ASP World Ranking system in play this season and the fact that the event is a 6 Star Prime, there's a good number of WCT guys showing up looking for a few extra ratings points. Surf report looks like small but clean and fun waves for the week, so reckon it could be good for Jordy, Dane and crew. Anyway, here's a little extra info for you on the surf spots at Trestles.

"Just north of the San Onofre State Beach, adjacent to the train trestle. One of the world's best surfing arenas. Running continuously from San Mateo Point to San Onofre State Beach.

Cotton's: Lined up left-hander good in big south to southwest swells. Breaks over cobblestone and sand bottom on any tide, but lower is hollower. Holds 2-12ft plus. All levels.

Uppers (Upper Trestles): Superb quality, long (mostly) right-hand cobblestone point wave. Works best on a wrapped northwest to west winter swell at higher tides, when there will be multi-second barrels firing down the beach towards San Mateo Creek. It'll work well on south swell too though. Any tide is OK. 2-10ft plus. All levels. Best in winter ... generally. Crowded with mini-tankers.

Lowers: Left and right cobblestone peak. Long rights in winter swells from NW, awesome fast peak left and rights in summer south swells. Generally both lefts and rights have 3 sections, with the first (outside) being more hollow. Rights often longer/lined up, and longer than Uppers. Lefts punchy and good channel to paddle back from. Any tide is OK, but low tide plus summer swell and morning off-shore = hollow green barrels at high speed. 2-15ft. Very crowded. Usually better than Uppers in summer, and vice versa.

Down from here is Middles: Mellow right-left summer peak needing northeast winds and any swell. All tides. Low is better as it can be a mush-burger at the best of times. If your surfing isn't working here, get a new board, or a coach"

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