Hannah Nietfeld

August 20th And just like that, our trip was sadly coming to an end. Our flight wasn’t until later in the day, so we had some time to kill before heading to the airport. Our large group left at various times because we were all on different flights: a crew left early in the morning, one group extended their stay and migrated to their next spot after checkout, and my car slowly made its way back to Portland for our late flight. I got up early to pack and also went downstairs to help clean up...

August 19th I think everyone was pretty wiped from the surfing, sun, and wine drinking the night before, I included. So it was a later morning as expected. We had it planned to go on a hike today but given our current state, we thought it best to stay local with the hiking. Plus, Shannon and Alayna weren’t able to hike so we didn’t want to do something too long. But they are two people that would be content to just pop out some chairs and sit at the trailhead with a book and that speaks a lot...

August 18th Surfing day!! I checked Surfline, a wave watching app, this morning and it had lower waves than normal so I wasn’t as fearful and actually excited to see if I could catch some waves. I knew that it would take me a few tries to get the feel back, but I didn’t want to scare myself out of doing it. Even though I had my reservations to go out there, without a guide, and on a day with such powerful waves, I still wanted to give it my best effort.  I got up early because I wanted to go...